The Frogs, living an easy, free sort of life among the lakes and ponds, once prayed Jupiter to send them a King.  
Jove, being at that time in a merry mood, threw them a Log, saying, as he did so, "There, then, is a King for you."
 
Awed by the splash, the Frogs watched their King in fear and trembling, till at last, encouraged by his stillness, one more daring than the rest jumped upon the shoulder of the monarch. Soon, many others followed his example, and made merry on the back of their unresisti............