"We won't
catch another grasshopper."
WHERE THE FROGS CAME FROM
_Roman_
You see the sun every bright day, don't you?
And you see the moon every moonshiny night.
Now, listen, and I'll tell you a story about their mother. No, not about
their mother, but about the mother of the god of the sun, and of the
goddess of the moon, whose names were Apollo and Diana.
It is about Apollo's and Diana's mother this story is to be.
Once when they were little twin babies their mother was in great
trouble. She had to wander around and around, and get food and drink
wherever she could find them.
One day she went to a pond for water, for the people in the houses were
cross and would not give her any.
And just think of it! These people, careless about soiling their green
coats and white vests, ran down to the pond ahead of her, jumped in and
stirred the water so that it was black with mud.
And they called out, "Come and drink, Latona! Come and drink water, pure
and sweet, Latona!"
[Illustration: LATONA. Fleeing with her children]
This the cruel people did until Latona and her babies were so tired and
thirsty they could wait no longer.
"Why do you abuse us?" she said; "you have plenty of water in
your wells.
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