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Once on a time, a noisy Frog / Heard a Hen cackling near his bog; / "Begone! " said he; "your clamor rude / Disturbs our quiet neighborhood.
What's all this shocking fuss about, I beg? " -- / "Nothing, dear sir, but that I've laid an egg."
"A single egg! and therefore such a rout? " --
"Yes, neighbor Frog, a single egg, I say.
Are you so troubled, when I'm not put out / To hear your croaking all the night and day?
I boast that I have done some little good, though small; / Hold you your tongue! You do no good at all. "