The next day the ducks flew up into the air again. When they flew over the village, people saw the flying frog and shouted:"Look at the flying frog! It's great! How clever the ducks are."

The frog didn't like these words.

"It's my idea, I'm clever, not the ducks", thought the frog, but didn't open his mouth to say it.

The ducks flew and flew some days, they flew over the fields and forests, rivers and lakes, towns and cities. Soon they flew again over a small village and they heard that people said:

"Look at the clever birds, they carry the fat frog on a stick! How amazing." The frog couldn't listen to these words, so he opened the mouth and cried: "It's my idea! I am the clever one!"

And just at this moment he fell. The frog landed in a dirty pond. Many frogs gathered around the fat green frog and looked at him. The frog told them how clever he was, how he flew high in the sky, but didn't say a word why he was in that dirty little pond.

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