- millions of them. they all croak all night long and they are about to make me crazy!" so the restaurant owner and the farmer made an agreement that the farmer would deliver frogs to the restaurant, five hundred at a time for the next several weeks. the first week, the farmer returned to the restaurant looking rather sheepish, with two scrawny little frogs. the restaurant owner said, "well... where are all the frogs?" the farmer said, "i was mistaken. there were only these two frogs in the pond. but they sure were making a lot of noise!" 