The king-young frog, or Iron Henry
In old years when it was necessary to wish only чегонибудь and the desire was executed, there lived-existed the king; its all daughters were one краше another, and the younger princess was so is fine, what even the sun so much seeing any miracles, and that marvelled, lighting up its face.
Near the royal castle was the big dark wood, and in that wood under an old linden the well has been dug. In hot days the princess came into dark wood and sat down at a cool well; and when to it it became boring, took it a gold ball, threw it and caught: it was its favourite entertainment.
But here happens once, that the gold ball thrown by the princess has got not to its stretched handles, and has flown by by, has fallen to the ground and has swept directly in water. The princess looked after it, but, alas, the ball has disappeared in a well. And the well was so is deep, so is deep, as a bottom it was not visible.
The princess began to cry here, cried-sobbed all more loudly yes горестней and could not be consoled in any way.
She cries, is filled in, as suddenly hears someone's voice: "Yes that with you, the princess? From your crying and in a stone pity is". She has looked back to learn, whence the voice to it sounds, and has seen the young frog who has put out the thick ugly head from water. "Ah, so it you, old водошлеп! - the girl has told. - I cry about the gold ball which in a well has fallen". - "Calm down, do not cry, - the young frog answered, - I can to help your grief; but what you will give to me if I to you get a toy?" "Yes everything, that you want, the lovely young frog, - the princess, - my dresses, my pearls, каменья bright, and still in addition and a crown a gold, which burden" answered.
Also the young frog answered: "it is not necessary for me neither your dresses, nor pearls, neither stones bright, nor your crown gold; and here if you have grown fond of me and I would began everywhere to you to accompany, divide your games, behind your little table to sit next to you, to eat from your gold plateau, to drink from your pile, to sleep in yours постельке: if you it promise all to me, I am ready to go down in a well and to get to you therefrom a gold ball". - "Yes, yes, - the princess answered, - I promise you everything that you want if only you to me only a ball wash bigwigs".
And itself has thought: "Empty the silly young frog fences! To sit to it in water with similar to yes to croak, where to it to be to the person a companion".
Having secured with the promise, the young frog has disappeared in water, has fallen on a bottom, and in some instants has again come up, holding in a mouth the ball, and has thrown it on a grass. The princess has trembled with pleasure, having seen again the charming toy, has lifted it and has escaped skipping. "Постой, постой! - the young frog has cried. - take me with itself. I cannot so to run, as you".
Where there! To in vain it following in I blow to a drink the young frog croaked: the fugitive did not listen, has hastened home and has soon forgotten about the poor young frog to whom it was necessary not солоно хлебавши again to climb in the well.
Next day, when the princess with the king and all court has sat down to table and began to eat from the gold saucer, suddenly - flop, flop, flop, flop! - someone зашлепал on marble steps of a ladder and, having reached up to the top, began to be knocked on a door; "the Princess, the younger princess, open to me!"
She has jumped to look, who there the such could be knocked, and, having opened a door, has seen the young frog. The princess has quickly slapped a door, has again sat down to table, and страшнострашно to it became.
The king has seen, that its heart very much fights, and has told: "my Baby of that you are afraid? Whether the giant what stands up for a door and wishes to steal you?" - "ah, no! - she answered. - not a giant, and the vile young frog!" "That it is necessary for it from you?" - "ah, expensive father! When I in wood sat yesterday at a well and played; the gold ball in water has fallen mine; and as I very bitterly cried, the young frog to me has got it therefrom; and when he began to demand persistently to be henceforth unseparable, I promised; but after all never I thought, that it can leave water. And here he here behind a door also wishes to enter now here".
The young frog has knocked again and the voice has submitted:
The princess, the princess!
What do you do not open?!
Or has forgotten обещанья
At cool waters of a well?
The princess, the princess,
What do you do not open?
Then the king has told: "That you promised, should execute; go and open!"
It has gone and has opened a door.
The young frog has jumped in a room and, following close for the princess, has hopped to its most chair, villages beside and has shouted: "Lift me!" The princess all hesitated, while at last the king has not ordered to it to execute it. Hardly the young frog on a chair have planted, it on a table was requested; have planted on a table, and all is not enough it: "Move up aw, - speaks, - the saucer gold is closer to me that we together attempted!"
What to do?! And it was executed by the princess, though and with an obvious reluctance. The young frog ate foods greedily, and to the young mistress the piece in a throat did not climb.
At last the visitor has told: "Накушался I, and have got tired. Carry me in the room yes prepare the постельку down, and we will lay down with you to sleep". The princess has burst into tears, and it became terrible to it of the cold young frog: and to touch it боязно, and here it for королевниной soft, pure постельке will rest!
But the king was angry and has told: "Who has helped you with a trouble, that to you then to despise it is not necessary".
Took it the young frog two fingers, has incurred to itself upward and has stuck into a corner.
But when it has settled in постельке, the young frog has crept up and speaks: "I have got tired, I wish to sleep in the same way, as well as you: lift me to itself or I will complain to your father!" Well, here the princess has become angry to чрезвычайности, has seized it and has thrown, that was urine, about a wall. "Tea now you will calm down, a vile frog!"
Having fallen down to the ground, the young frog статным the king's son with fine tender eyes has turned back. Also there was it at will of the king a lovely companion and the spouse of the princess. He here has told to it, that the malicious witch charms has turned it in a frog, that anybody on light, except the princess, not in forces was it from a well to get out and that tomorrow they together will go to its kingdom.
Here they have fallen asleep, and for other morning when their sun has cleared, the carriage восьмериком has approached on a porch: horses white, with white ostrich feathers on heads, a harness all from gold chains, and on a back stood the servant of the young king, its true Henry.
When its master has been transformed into the young frog, true Henry so has grieved, that ordered to make three iron hoops and has chained in them the heart that it was not broke off on a part from a pain yes sorrows.
The carriage should bring the young king to native kingdom; true Henry has planted in it young, became again on a back and was glad-radeshenek to disposal of the mister of charms.
They have passed a road part as the king's son behind itself suddenly hears any crash as if something has broken off. He has turned back and has cried:
- What there has crackled, Henry? Really the carriage?
- No! It is whole, my master... And it
The hoop iron on my heart has burst:
It has suffered much, the master, about that,
That in a well cold you have been concluded
And a frog to remain for ever it is doomed.
And still, also something has once again crackled during a way, and the king's son in these both times too thought, that the carriage breaks; but that hoops on true Henry's heart because its mister has been released now from charms burst and is happy. |
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