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"That sounds very funny," said Tommy Smith. "But were not you once much smaller than you are now?" said the frog. "Oh yes!" Tommy Smith answered, "but however small I was, I was always a little boy, and had hands and feet, just as I have now." THAT SOUNDS VERY FUNNY SAID TOMMY SMITH BUT WERE NOT YOU ONCE MUCH SMALLER THAN YOU ARE NOW SAID THE FROG OH YES TOMMY SMITH ANSWERED BUT HOWEVER SMALL HE WAS I WAS ALWAYS A LITTLE BOY AND HAD HANDS AND FEET JUST AS I HAVE NOW
ut of Tommy Smith’s hand, and came down upon the grass again, and then he hopped about for a little while, jumping higher each time than the time before. “Frogs always speak the truth,” he said,—“when they speak to little boys. And now, perhaps, you would like to learn something more about me. Ask me any question you like, and I will answer it, because of what you have just promised.” This puzzled Tommy Smith a little, because he did not know where to begin, but at last he said, “You seem to me a very big frog. Were you always as big as you are now?” “Why, of course not,” said the frog, “a frog grows up just as much as a little boy does. I was once so small that you would hardly have been able to see me. But, besides being smaller, I was quite a different shape to what I am now. I had no legs at all, but instead of them I had a long tail, with which I used to swim about in the water, so that I was much more like a fish than a frog, and many people would have thought that I was a fish.”  WHEN HE HEARD THAT HE GAVE A GREAT HOP OUT OF TOMMY SMITH'S HAND AND CAME DOWN UPON THE GRASS AGAIN AND THEN HE HOPPED ABOUT FOR A LITTLE WHILE JUMPING HIGHER EACH TIME THAN THE TIME BEFORE FROGS ALWAYS SPEAK THE TRUTH HE SAID WHEN THEY SPEAK TO LITTLE BOYS AND NOW PERHAPS YOU WOULD LIKE TO LEARN SOMETHING MORE ABOUT ME ASK ME ANY QUESTION YOU LIKE AND I WILL ANSWER IT BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU HAVE JUST PROMISED THIS PUZZLED TOMMY SMITH A LITTLE BECAUSE HE DID NOT KNOW WHERE TO BEGIN BUT AT LAST HE SAID YOU SEEM TO ME A VERY BIG FROG WERE YOU ALWAYS AS BIG AS YOU ARE NOW WHY OF COURSE NOT SAID THE FROG A FROG GROWS UP JUST AS MUCH AS A LITTLE BOY DOES I WAS ONCE SO SMALL THAT YOU WOULD HARDLY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SEE ME BUT BESIDES BEING SMALLER I WAS QUITE A DIFFERENT SHAPE TO WHAT I AM NOW I HAD NO LEGS AT ALL BUT INSTEAD OF THEM I HAD A LONG TAIL WITH WHICH I USED TO SWIM ABOUT IN THE WATER SO THAT I WAS MUCH MORE LIKE A FISH THAN A FROG AND MANY PEOPLE WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT I WAS A FISH
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