MAN'S BEST FRIEND
Be kind and tender to the Frog,
And do not call him names,
As 'Slimy skin', or 'Plly-wog',
Or likewise 'Ugly James',
Or 'Gape-a-grin', or 'Toad-gone-wrong',
Or 'Billy Bandy-knees':
The Frog is justly sensitive
To epithets like these.
No animal will more repay
A treatment kind and fair;
At least so lonely people say
Who keep a frog (and, by the way.
They are extremely rare).
HILAIRE BELLOC