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Then the princess ran to the door and opened it, and there she

saw the frog, whom she had quite forgotten. At this sight she was

sadly frightened, and shutting the door as fast as she could came

back to her seat. The king, her father, seeing that something had

frightened her, asked her what was the matter. 'There is a nasty

frog,' said she, 'at the door, that lifted my ball for me out of

the spring this morning: I told him that he should live with me

here, thinking that he could never get out of the spring; but

there he is at the door, and he wants to come in.'

While she was speaking the frog knocked again at the door, and

said:

'Open the door, my princess dear, Open the door to thy true love

here! And mind the words that thou and I said By the fountain

cool, in the greenwood shade.'