Tadpoles and Frog

The little fish swam down the waterfall and fell into a pond full of water. At first the fish lost its balance but after a while began to swim and circled around the pond. The fish had never seen so much water collected in one place.

Thousands of tadpoles were wriggling in the water. They laughed when they saw the little black fish,
"What a funny shape! What kind of creature are you?"
The fish looked them over thoroughly and said, "Please don't insult me. My name is Little Black Fish. Tell me your names so that we'll get acquainted.
" "We call one another tadpole," replied one of the tadpoles.
"We come from nobility," said another.
"You can't find anyone prettier than us in the whole world," said another.
"We aren't shapeless and ugly-faced like you," said another one.
The fish said, "I never imagined you would be so conceited. That's all right. I'll forgive you since you're speaking out of ignorance."
In one voice the tadpoles demanded, "Are you saying we're stupid?"
"If you weren't ignorant," replied the fish, "you'd know that there are many others in the world who are pleased with their appearances. You don't even have names of your own."

The tadpoles became very angry. But since they knew the little fish spoke truthfully, they changed their tone and said, "really, you're wasting words! We swim around the world every day from morning till evening, but except for ourselves and our father and mother, we see no one. Of course, there are tiny worms, but they don't count."
"You can't even leave the pond," said the fish. "How can you talk about traveling around the world?"
"What! Do you think there's a world other than the pond?" exclaimed the tadpoles.
"At least," responded the fish, "you must wonder where this water comes from and what things are outside of it."
"Outside the water!" exclaimed the tadpoles, "Where is that? We're never seen outside of the water! Haha .. haha ...You're crazy!"

Little Black Fish also started to laugh. The fish thought it would be better to leave the tadpoles to themselves and go away, but then changed its mind and decided to speak to their mother.

"Where is your mother?" asked the fish. Suddenly, the deep voice of a frog made the fish jump. The frog was sitting on a rock at the edge of the pond. She jumped into the water, came up to the fish and said:
"I'm right here. What do you want?"
"Hello, Great Lady," said the fish.
The frog responded "Worthless creature, now is not the time to show off. You've found some children to listen to you and are talking pretentiously. I've lived long enough to know that the world is this pond. Mind your own business and don't lead my children astray."
"If you lived a hundred years," said the little fish, "you'd still be nothing more than an ignorant and helpless frog."

The frog got angry and jumped at Little Black Fish. The fish flipped quickly and fled like lightening, stirring up sediment and worms at the bottom of the pond.