ONCE UPON A TIME, when the Sun announced his intention to take a
wife, the Frogs lifted up their voices in clamor to the sky.
Jupiter, disturbed by the noise of their croaking¹, inquired the
cause of their complaint.  One of them said, "The Sun, now while
he is single, parches² up the marsh³, and compels us to die
miserably in our arid⁴ homes.  What will be our future condition
if he should beget⁵ other suns?' 

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