Billy Bull Frog had a deep voice, and every night he would sit on a big flat rock amid tall sedge grass and sing. There was a little green lady frog that sang a beautiful soprano, but, you see, his voice was so loud and strong and deep that hardly any one could hear her when she sang. She could hardly ever hear herself, for the louder she sang the more noise Billy would make, till finally the little green lady frog wouldn't sing at all.
But this did not make Billy feel badly, because he loved to hear his own voice so much. The little green lady frog would sit very still on her lily pad, and would not even look at Billy when he sang. But, oh, dear me! he was so about his own voice that he thought the little green lady frog was jealous of him.
She wasn't at all, and Billy was wrong, and was very, very foolishly. The real truth of the matter was that the little green lady frog had heard a tree singing in a tree quite close to the lake, and she............