"He asked me--and it was better that I tell him.

It is part of the Three's--_punishment_--but of that you will soon learn," she went on hurriedly.

"Ask me no questions now of the Silent Ones.

I thought it better for Olaf to go with Rador, to busy himself, to give his mind other than sorrow upon which to feed." Up the path came five of the frog-women, bearing platters and ewers.
Their bracelets and anklets of jewels were tinkling; their middles covered with short kirtles of woven cloth studded with the sparkling ornaments.
And here let me say that if I have given the impression that the _Akka_ are simply magnified frogs, I regret it.

Frog-like they are, and hence my phrase for them--but as unlike the frog, as we know it, as man is unlike the chimpanzee.