This fable illustrates the dangers of pride and envy when a mother frog, hearing how a huge Ox accidentally crushed one of her young, refuses to believe anything could be so big. In an attempt to match the Ox's size, she puffs herself up bigger and bigger, ignoring her children's warnings that the creature was much larger, until her vanity causes her to burst, teaching a lesson about accepting one's own limitations and the foolishness of trying to be something one is not.