The Frog
Prince
One fine evening a young princess
put on her bonnet and clogs, and went out to take a walk by herself in a wood;
and when she came to a cool spring of water with a rose in the middle of it,
she sat herself down to rest a while. Now she had a golden ball in her hand, which
was her favourite plaything, and she was always tossing it up into the air, and
catching it again as it fell.
After a time she threw it up so high
that she missed catching it as it fell; and the ball bounded away, and rolled
along on the ground, until at last it fell down into the spring. The princess
looked into the spring after her ball, but it was very deep, so deep that she
could not see the bottom of it. She began to cry, and said, if she could only
get her ball again, she would give all her fine clothes and jewels, and
everything that she have in the world.' Whilst
she was speaking, a frog put its head out of the water, and said, he do not
want her pearls, and jewels, and fine clothes, but if she will love him, and
let him live with her and eat from off her golden plate, and sleep on her bed,
he will bring her ball again.So she said to the frog, if he will bring her
ball, she will do all him ask.'As soon as the young princess saw her ball, she
ran to pick it up, and she was so overjoyed to have it in her hand again, that
she never thought of the frog, but ran home with it as fast as she could. The
frog called her,But she did not stop to hear a word.
The next day,then the princess ran to the door and
opened it, and there she saw the frog, whom she had quite forgotten. At this
sight she was sadly frightened, and shutting the door as fast as she could came
back to her seat. The king, her father, seeing that something had frightened
her, and asked her what was the matter. After young princess was speaking, the
king said to the young princess, 'As she have given her word she must keep it,
so she must go and let him in.' And the young princess keep her promise.
The frog always came, when the princess opened the
door the frog came in, and slept upon her pillow as before, till the morning
broke. And the third night he did the same. But when the princess awoke on the
following morning she was astonished to see, instead of the frog, a handsome
prince, gazing on her with the most beautiful eyes she had ever seen and
standing at the head of her bed. He told her that he had been
enchanted by a spiteful fairy, who had changed him into a frog, and that he had
been fated so to abide till some princess should take him out of the spring, and
let him eat from her plate, and sleep upon her bed for three nights. The prince said, 'the young princess had
broken him cruel charm, and now He have nothing to wish for but that young
princess should go with Prince into him father's kingdom, where Prince will
marry her, and love her as long as her live.' The young princess,was not long
in saying 'Yes'. They then took leave of the king, and got into the coach with
eight horses, and all set out, full of joy and merriment, for the prince's
kingdom, which they reached safely; and there they lived happily a great many
years.
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