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Be kind and tender to the Frog, / And do not call him names, / As 'Slimy skin,' or 'Polly-wog,' / Or likewise 'Ugly James,' / Or 'Gap-a-grin,' or 'Toad-gone-wrong,' / Or 'Bill 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).
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