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The young frog surreptitiously appraised the ample girth and scrawny limbs of his companion. ‘Well, this is a smart pond. You’ll be welcome here. Food is easy and the girls are fine!’ He winked, as only young frogs know how, sensing that here was little competition.
‘Have you never been to the river, then?’ inquired the old amphibian.
‘No, what for? I mean, everything I want is here. Besides, I don’t really believe in it. It might be OK for others, but there’s no real evidence for it anyway. Why waste my time chasing after dreams, when I can chase girls instead?’
‘Did your parents never read you the Book of the River when you were a tadpole?’
The young frog was already beginning to tire of the conversation. Two young female frogs had just popped up onto a nearby lily-pad, and were admiring their reflections in the surface. Unconsciously, he puffed up his neck a little. ‘Well, bits of it. They read lots of stories. I used to love the one about the frog who turned into a Prince.’ He wondered how it must have felt to kiss a human. Yuk!
‘Then you will never see it,’ the old frog sighed.
‘See what?’ replied the youngster, gazing at the lily-pad. The two girls were preening, their green skins radiant in the sunshine. He licked his wide, wide mouth.
‘The waterfall.’
‘The what?’
‘The waterfall,’ the brown old frog repeated. ‘It is the most beautiful thing on earth. It is as though the river bursts. It cascades over the edge with a huge roar, crashing to the pool below. Then it dances and gurgles, and leaps in great waves
which surge with power. And you should see the sparkling spray! The dew clings to you like a skin of pearls. Oh, it is beautiful, beautiful,’ cried the old frog.
The young frog turned back to the newcomer, expecting to see the gleam of madness in his eyes. ‘Clearly the old man was losing it,’ he thought, for he didn’t even understand his language, never mind his meaning.
But the old frog wasn’t looking at him any longer. Instead, he was gazing with deep longing beyond the far edge of the pond, where no one ever went. There was something in his earnestness which stirred the spirit of the young frog. What if the old thing was right after all? What if there really was a river? From the deep echoes of his mind came a fog of memory from the ancient tales.
‘So in this river of yours, the water moves?’ he asked.
‘Oh yes! The whole river is alive. Near the edge it is gentle, but in midstream it is fast. You cannot swim against it. In winter it is so powerful it can roll huge boulders along the bottom, and move whole mudbanks with its force. And in summer the sunlight plays on the rippling surface in a kaleidoscope of colour, and the water crowfoot weaves in the stream like willows in the wind. It is not confined like this pond, which you can circle within an hour. It comes from nowhere and goes to nowhere, and goes on forever.
‘And it is so fresh,’ the old frog went on. ‘You can breathe it and not suffocate. It is so clean you can see through it for leaps and leaps. There are great fish there too. Mighty silver salmon, and huge spotted trout, and pike which will eat you in one swallow, and crayfish which swim backwards. And eels and …’
‘Old man, your dreams have turned you crazy. How can a fish swim backwards? And fish don’t eat frogs! Give it up, old frog,
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