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laurie dhandapani
                   

One day a young princess sat down by the side of a cool spring of water. She had a golden ball in her hand, which was her favorite plaything, and she amused herself by tossing it into the air and catching it again as it fell. On this morning she tossed it into the air, but was unable to catch it. The ball rolled over the ground and into the spring. The princess looked into the water, but alas the ball was lost!  She began to cry and said, " 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."
Suddenly a frog popped its head out of the water and said, "Princess, why do you weep?" Sobbing, said she,  “My golden ball has fallen into the spring.”

frog prince  

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 your little golden plate, and sleep upon your little bed, I will bring you your ball."
"What nonsense," thought the princess, "This is only a silly frog!  However, he may be able to get my ball for me; and therefore I will promise him what he asks." So she said to the frog, "Well, if you will bring me my ball, I promise to do all that you’ve asked."
Then the frog swam deep under the water; and after a little while he came up again with the ball in his mouth, and threw it on the ground. As soon as the young princess saw her ball, she ran to pick it up, and 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 after her, " Princess, take me with you as you promised."

    
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        But she did not stop to hear a word.
The next day, just as the princess had sat down to dinner, she heard a strange noise, tap-tap, as if somebody was coming up the marble staircase. And soon afterwards something knocked gently at the door.
The princess ran to the door and opened it, and there she saw the frog, whom she had quite forgotten. She was terribly frightened, and shutting the door as fast as she could, came back to her seat. The king, her father, asked her what had frightened her.
"There is a nasty frog at the door. " she said. “ He returned my lost golden ball, out of the spring this morning. I promised him that he could live with me here, thinking that he could never get out of the spring; but there he is at the door and wants to come in!"
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