Punch: Punch (100.1891)

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[March 21, 1891.

KING STORK AND KING LOG,

An Old Fable Reversed,

The Frogs, who lived a free and easy life And she insisted that our modern Frogs \ But in the fulness of the time, there came

(As in the ancient fable)
Though not quite clear from internecine strife,

Fanoied they were well able
To do without a King. Batrachian wisdom
Disdains the rule of fogeydom and quizdom,

Should have a King—the woodenest of King
Logs.

At first this terrified our Frogs exceedingly,
And, sometimes passionately, sometimes
pleadingly,

And irogs as soon would take to bibs and They grumbled and protested;

corals, ! j}at Hading soon how placidly Log rested : "With a fierce, fussy appetite for work ;

Not satisfied with fixing lite a vice

A would-be monarch—Legion his fit name;
A Plebs-appointed Autocrat, Stork-throated,

Goggle-eyed, Paul-Pry-coated;
A poking, peering, pompous, petty creature,
A Bumble-King, with beak for its chief
This new King Stork, _ [feature.

As ask a "King who might inspect their ; Prone in the pool with mighty little motion,
morals " Of danger they abandoned the wild notion,

From Jupiter. Then 'twas Inventus Mundi;
The true King-maker now is—Mrs. Grundy,

Finding it easy for a Frog to jog
On with a kind King Log.

Authority on Town and Country Mice,
Tried to extend his sway to pools and bogs,
And rule the Frogs !