Down by the olive-green river

Basking lazily on the flat, sunwarmed rocks,

Saw him gleefully, jumping, leaping,

splashing, swooping, sliding,

slipping on the water-smoothed pebbles,

in the transparent shallows,.

joyfully barking, soaking wet,

doggily laughing crazily!

He had discovered a new sport,

'Frogging' we called it.

Luckily for both the frogs could spring

Faster, further and more rapidly

than he could, but it was good sport.