PARABLE OF THE FROGS
A MESSAGE TO ROOSEVELT.
Dr. Frank Norris, the American Baptist preacher, lateiy in London, who cabled to President Roosevelt, ‘•Quit teasing rattlesnake; cut off head,” has a gift of vivid allegory, notes “Peterborough” in the “Daily Telegraph.” Talking of those three isolationists, Colonel -Lindbergh and Senators Nye and Wheeler, he said they reminded him of the man who offered an hotel manager a cartload of frogs’ legs. The manager said he ( would have them, and next day the man brought him three pairs. “Where is the cartload you promised me?” asked the manager. “From the noise they were making I was sure there was a cartload; in my pond,” replied the man, “but when I went to get them I could only find three.” i
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 December 1941, Page 6
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129PARABLE OF THE FROGS Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 December 1941, Page 6
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