A big toad had spent his youth at the dim bottom of a deep well, bullying the frogs and growing even more arrogant about his size and power. One day the toad fell into the bucket and was drawn into the light where he saw a whole new world and creatures larger and more powerful than he. Amazed and fearful, he threw himself back into the well saying "Perhaps I'm not much after all, but these frogs will never know!".
From "Beyond the known" by Tri Thong Dang. Published by Tuttle Publishing, copyright 1993.