One fine evening, a young princess put on her bonnet and legs, and went out to
take a walk by herself in a wood, and when she came to a cool spring of water te
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 be
bounded away, and rolled along on the ground, until at last it fell down into the sprin
The princess looked into the spring after her ball, but it was very deep, so deep
she could not see the bottom of it. She began to cry, and said, 'Alas! I could
get my ball again, I would give all my fine clothes and jewels, and everything
have in the world.
Whilst she was speaking, a frog put its head out of the water, and said, 'P
why do you weep so bitterly?
'Alas!' said she, 'what can you do for me, you nasty frog? My golden ball
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