Frog Prince
or
Iron Henry

Story in 12 pictures
by unknown artist [perhaps Almuth Gittermann (= Jenia Graman)]

Tale by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, after the translation of Lucy Crane

 

 

In the old times, when it was still of some use to wish for the thing one wanted, there lived a king whose daughters were all handsome, but the youngest was so beautiful that the sun itself, who has seen so much, wondered each time he shone over her because of her beauty.

When the day was hot the King's daughter used to go outside into the yard, and if the time seemed long she would take out a golden ball and throw it up and catch it again, and this was her favorite game.

Now it happened one day that the golden ball, instead of falling back into the maiden's little hand which had sent it aloft, dropped into a well and disappeared.  The King's daughter followed it with her eyes as it fell, but the well was deep, so deep that the bottom could not be seen.

 

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