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Par. 187.] TIE SUBJUNCTIVE.

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of prison a frog that had committed murder, and promised him free pardon if he would swim within three
frog's leaps of the king. Shivering with terror the poor
frog swam towards the king, scarcely arlyaring to hope that
he might l escape, and expecting every moment that
the huge monster would dart upon him with open jaws,
and swallow him up. Closer and closer he swam; still
the king floated silent, motionless. Taking courage from
this, the frog thought he would2 awake his majesty by
croaking. He croaked, but tile king made no reply.
He swam closer, and still closer, and at last, his suspicions being aroused, he extended one of his legs, and
stroked the monster's face with it. It was as lie had
suspected. The king was no king, nothing but a big
black log.
I87 Immediately the whole tribe of frogs, who had been watching from a distance, lifted up their voices and began to
abuse Jupiter: "If he had wished to insult us," cried
they, " le could not have treated us more contemptuously. We should not have minded a strong and somewhat fierce king, even if he had swallowed up a few of
us now and then. Any thing would be better than this
do-nothing, this King Log. Wly may not we have a
king as the birds and the beasts have? Jupiter should
not have treated us thus; he might 3 at least have sent
us no king instead of thus insulting us. We will pray
to him no more until he sends4 us a real king." So
the frogs shut up all their temples, and for a whole day
would say no more prayers to Jupiter. But at the end
of the day there suddenly hopped down into the pond
1 " Miglht," see Par. 180.
2 " He thought he would" is put for " he thought he should will,
i.e. should like." See Par. 173.
'Tlis is In(licative. if you take it to mean "he had the power; "
but, if you take it to be " lie woul(d have been able (if he had
pleased)," it is Conditional, Consequent. See Par. 172.
4 See Par. 80.