รOne 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, '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.'
Whilst she was speaking, a frog put its head out of the water, and said, 'Princess, why
do you weep so bitterly?'
'Alas!' said she, 'what can you do for me, you
nasty frog? My golden ball has fallen into the spring.'
The frog said, 'I do not want your pearls, and
jewels, and fine clothes; but if you will love me, and let
me live with you and eat from off your golden plate,
and sleep on your bed, I will bring you your ball again.'
'What nonsense,' thought the princess, 'this silly
frog is talking! He can never even get out of the spring to visit me, though he may be able to
get my ball for me, and therefore I will tell him he shall have what he asks.'
So she said to the frog, 'Well, if you will bring me my ball, I will do all you ask.'
Then the frog put his head down, and dived deep under the water; and after a little
while he came up again, with the ball in his mouth, and threw it on the edge of the spring
รOne 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, '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.'
Whilst she was speaking, a frog put its head out of the water, and said, 'Princess, why
do you weep so bitterly?'
'Alas!' said she, 'what can you do for me, you
nasty frog? My golden ball has fallen into the spring.'
The frog said, 'I do not want your pearls, and
jewels, and fine clothes; but if you will love me, and let
me live with you and eat from off your golden plate,
and sleep on your bed, I will bring you your ball again.'
'What nonsense,' thought the princess, 'this silly
frog is talking! He can never even get out of the spring to visit me, though he may be able to
get my ball for me, and therefore I will tell him he shall have what he asks.'
So she said to the frog, 'Well, if you will bring me my ball, I will do all you ask.'
Then the frog put his head down, and dived deep under the water; and after a little
while he came up again, with the ball in his mouth, and threw it on the edge of the spring
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