Bounded By A Nutshell



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).


The Frog, Hilaire Belloc

Photo by @sdavis.art on Instagram


For those who may not know the name, Hilaire Belloc got off the sine qua non explanation of successful colonialism:

"Whatever happens we have got,

The Maxim gun and they have not".


A useful maxim to know.


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