Be kind and tender to the frog,
And do not call her names,
As 'Slimy skin,' or 'Polly-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 of a lonely people say
Who keep a frog (and, by the way,
They are extremely rare).
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