One day, a young frog was sitting by a pond. In that pond, an ox was quenching his thirst. The frog had never seen anything as large as the ox. He ran to his father.

“Just now I saw a giant near the pond,” he said.

“A giant!” his father exclaimed. “Tell me how he looks.” “He was large like a mountain with horns on his head. He also had a long tail,” the frog described.

“Oh, that’s the farmer’s ox,” the father said. “But, he is not that big.”

“No father, you don’t know. He is bigger than you, the son said.

The father blew and swelled himself out and asked, “Am I now looking as large as him?”

“No, he was much larger than this,” the son said.

The father blew, blew, and blew again and asked, “Now see! Was he as large as this?”

“Much larger than this,” the son replied.

“Alright. Let me try once more,” the father said. Once again he blew and extended himself, but alas! He burst!

Moral: Self-conceit leads to self-destruction.