It was summer, and the wedding of the Sun was being celebrated. All the animals rejoiced at the event, and even the frogs were in high spirits. But one of them cried out, "Fools, what have you to rejoice about? On his own, the Sun dries up all the marshes; if he takes a wife and has a child like himself, what shall we not have to suffer?"
Many light-headed people rejoice over things that are nothing to rejoice about.
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