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But she was mistaken; for when night came again she heard the

same tapping at the door; and the frog came once more, 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.'

And when the princess opened the door the frog came in, and slept

upon her pillow as before, till the morning broke. And the third

night he did the same. But when the princess awoke on the

following morning she was astonished to see, instead of the frog,

a handsome prince, gazing on her with the most beautiful eyes she

had ever seen, and standing at the head of her bed.