Be kind and tender to the Frog.
And do not call him names,
As "slimy-skin" or "Polly-wog"
Or likewise, "Ugly James."
Or "Gape-a-grin" or "Toad-gone-wrong"
Or "BIlly Brandy-knees"
The frog is justly sensitive
To epithets like these.

No animal will more repay
A treatment kind and fair.
At least, so lonely people say
Who keep a frog (and, by the way,
They are extremely rare.)
-Hilaire Belloc