Once there was a big fat frog(青蛙)and a little frog. They were jumping along together 1 they jumped into a pail (桶) of fresh milk. They swam for hours and hours hoping to get out of the pail, but 2 Death seemed to be near.
The big frog was very3 . "Why keep trying what we can't? I can't swim any longer, "he said.
"Keep on! Keep on! "the lite frog said, who was still swimming around the pail.4 they went on for a while. But the big frog found it was no 5 . " Little brother, we'd 6 " he said. And so he did.
Now only the little frog was 7 . He thought to himself, "Well, to give up is to be dead, so I will keep swimming. "Two more hours passed and the little frog was 8 tired to move for another minute. But he thought of his dead fiend, "To give up is to be meat for someone's table, so I'll keep jumping on until I 9 —if death is to come—but I will not 10 ·trying—where there is life, there is 11 . "
Making up his 12 , the little frog kept on swimming around and around the pail, making the milk into white waves (波浪) . After a while, just as he was about to drown (淹死) , he suddenly felt something 13 under him. 14 his surprise, he found that he was resting on a piece of butter which he had made by swimming! So the little frog jumped out of the milk pail 15 . He won his freedom(自由).
