Be kind and tender to the Frog, <br />And do not call him names, <br />As "Slimy skin," or "Polly-wog," <br />Or likewise "Ugly James," <br />Or "Gap-a-grin," or "Toad-gone-wrong," <br />Or "Bill Bandy-knees": <br />The Frog is justly sensitive <br />To epithets like these. <br /> <br />No animal will more repay <br />A treatment kind and fair; <br />At least so lonely people say <br />Who keep a frog (and, by the way, <br />They are extremely rare).<br /><br />Hilaire Belloc<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-frog/
