A fter 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, 'Alas! if I could only get my ball again,I would give all my fine clothes and jewels, and everything that I have in the world.