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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Frog Prince and Other Stories + The Frog Prince, Princess Belle-Etoile, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp + +Author: Anonymous + +Illustrator: Walter Crane + +Release Date: January 24, 2007 [EBook #20437] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FROG PRINCE AND OTHER STORIES *** + + + + +Produced by K Nordquist Jacqueline Jeremy and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div id="auto"> + +<h1>The Frog Prince</h1> +<h2>and other stories</h2> + +<h3>By</h3> + +<h2>Walter Crane</h2> + + +<h4 style="margin-bottom: 1em;">The Frog Prince</h4> +<h4 style="margin-top: 0em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Princess Belle-Etoile</h4> +<h4 style="margin-top: 0em;">Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp</h4> + + +<h6 style="margin-top: 150px;">First published by George Routledge 1874</h6> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span></p> + + +<h1>THE FROG PRINCE.</h1> + + +<p style="text-indent: -.3em;"><span class="dropcap">I</span>N the olden time, when wishing was having, there lived a King, whose +daughters were all beautiful; but the youngest was so exceedingly +beautiful that the Sun himself, although he saw her very often, was +enchanted every time she came out into the sunshine.</p> + +<p>Near the castle of this King was a large and gloomy forest, and in the +midst stood an old lime-tree, beneath whose branches splashed a little +fountain; so, whenever it was very hot, the King's youngest daughter ran +off into this wood, and sat down by the side of this fountain; and, when +she felt dull, would often divert herself by throwing a golden ball up +in the air and catching it. And this was her favourite amusement.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span> +Now, one day it happened, that this golden ball, when the King's +daughter threw it into the air, did not fall down into her hand, but +on the grass; and then it rolled past her into the fountain. The +King's daughter followed the ball with her eyes, but it disappeared +beneath the water, which was so deep that no one could see to the +bottom. Then she began to lament, and to cry <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span>louder and louder; and, +as she cried, a voice called out, "Why weepest thou, O King's +daughter? thy tears would melt even a stone to pity." And she looked +around to the spot whence the voice came, and saw a Frog stretching +his thick ugly head out of the water. "Ah! you old water-paddler," +said she, "was it you that spoke? I am weeping for my golden ball, +which has slipped away from me into the water."</p> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<a name="image_p5" id="image_p5"></a><a href="images/illus005l.jpg" title="Image Page 5"> +<img src="images/illus005s.jpg" title="Image Page 5" alt="Image Page 5" width="400" height="468" /></a> +</div> + +<p>"Be quiet, and do not cry," answered the Frog; "I can give thee good +advice. But what wilt thou give me if I fetch thy plaything up again?"</p> + +<p>"What will you have, dear Frog?" said she. "My dresses, my pearls and +jewels, or the golden crown which I wear?"</p> + +<p>The Frog answered, "Dresses, or jewels, or golden crowns, are not +for me; but if thou wilt love me, and let me be thy companion and +playfellow, and sit at thy table, and eat from thy little golden +plate, and drink out of thy cup, and sleep in thy little bed,—if +thou wilt promise me all these, then will I dive down and fetch up +thy golden ball."</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<a name="image_p7" id="image_p7"></a><a href="images/illus007l.jpg" title="Image Page 7"> +<img src="images/illus007s.jpg" title="Image Page 7" alt="Image Page 7" width="400" height="467" /></a> +</div> + +<p>"Oh, I will promise you all," said she, "if you will only get me my +ball." But she thought to herself, "What is the silly Frog chattering +about? Let him remain in the water with his equals; he cannot mix in +society." But the Frog, as soon as he had received her promise, drew +his head under the water and dived down. Presently he swam up again +with the ball in his mouth, and threw it on the grass. The King's +daughter was full of joy <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span>when she again saw her beautiful plaything; +and, taking it up, she ran off immediately. "Stop! stop!" cried the +Frog; "take me with thee. I cannot run as thou canst." But all his +croaking was useless; although it was loud enough, the King's daughter +did not hear it, but, hastening home, soon forgot the poor Frog, who +was obliged to leap back into the fountain.</p> + + +<p>The next day, when the King's daughter was sitting at table with her +father and all his courtiers, and was eating from her own little golden +plate, something was heard coming up the marble stairs, splish-splash, +splish-splash; and when it arrived at the top, it knocked at the door, +and a voice said, "Open the door, thou youngest daughter of the King!" +So she rose and went to see who it was that called her; but when she +opened the door and caught sight of the Frog, she shut it again with +great vehemence, and sat down at the table, looking very pale. But the +King perceived that her heart was beating violently, and asked her +whether it were a giant who had come to fetch her away who stood at the +door. "Oh, no!" answered she; "it is no giant, but an ugly Frog."</p> + +<p>"What does the Frog want with you?" said the King.</p> + +<p>"Oh, dear father, when I was sitting yesterday playing by the fountain, +my golden ball fell into the water, and this Frog fetched it up again +because I cried so much: but first, I must tell you, he pressed me so +much, that I promised him he should be my companion. I never thought +that he could come out of the water, but somehow he has jumped out, +and now he wants to come in here."</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span>At that moment there was another knock, and a voice said,—</p> + +<div class="block" style="width: 250px;"> +<p class="p1">"King's daughter, youngest,</p> +<p class="p2">Open the door.</p> +<p class="p3">Hast thou forgotten</p> +<p class="p3">Thy promises made</p> +<p class="p3">At the fountain so clear</p> +<p class="p3">'Neath the lime-tree's shade?</p> +<p class="p3">King's daughter, youngest,</p> +<p class="p4">Open the door."</p> +</div> + +<p>Then the King said, "What you have promised, that you must perform; go +and let him in." So the King's daughter went and opened the door, and +the Frog hopped in after her right up to her chair: and as soon as she +was seated, the Frog said, "Take me up;" but she hesitated so long that +at last the King ordered her to obey. And as soon as the Frog sat on the +chair, he jumped on to the table, and said, "Now push thy plate near me, +that we may eat together." And she did so, but as everyone saw, very +unwillingly. The Frog seemed to relish his dinner much, but every bit +that the King's daughter ate nearly choked her, till at last the Frog +said, "I have satisfied my hunger and feel very tired; wilt thou carry +me upstairs now into thy chamber, and make thy bed ready that we may +sleep together?" At this speech the King's daughter began to cry, for +she was afraid of the cold Frog, and dared not touch him; and besides, +he actually wanted to sleep in her own beautiful, clean bed.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span><br /></p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<a name="image_p10_11" id="image_p10_11"></a><a href="images/illus010_11l.jpg" title="Image Page 10_11"> +<img src="images/illus010_11s.jpg" title="Image Page 10_11" alt="Image Page 10_11" width="600" height="332" /></a> +</div> + +<p>But her tears only made the King very angry, and he said,"<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span> He who +helped you in the time of your trouble, must not now be despised!" So +she took the Frog up with two fingers, and put him in a corner of her +chamber. But as she lay in her bed, he crept up to it, and said, "I am +so very tired that I shall sleep well; do take me up or I will tell thy +father." This speech put the King's daughter in a terrible passion, and +catching the Frog up, she threw him with all her strength against the +wall, saying, "Now, will you be quiet, you ugly Frog?"</p> + +<p>But as he fell he was changed from a frog into a handsome Prince with +beautiful eyes, who, after a little while became, with her father's +consent, her dear companion and betrothed. Then he told her how he had +been transformed by an evil witch, and that no one but herself could +have had the power to take him out of the fountain; and that on the +morrow they would go together into his own kingdom.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<a name="image_p13" id="image_p13"></a><a href="images/illus013l.jpg" title="Image Page 13"> +<img src="images/illus013s.jpg" title="Image Page 13" alt="Image Page 13" width="400" height="462" /></a> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<a name="image_p14" id="image_p14"></a><a href="images/illus014l.jpg" title="Image Page 14"> +<img src="images/illus014s.jpg" title="Image Page 14" alt="Image Page 14" width="400" height="463" /></a> +</div> + +<p>The next morning, as soon as the sun rose, a carriage drawn by eight +white horses, with ostrich feathers on their heads, and golden bridles, +drove up to the door of the palace, and behind the carriage stood the +trusty Henry, the servant of the young Prince. When his master was +changed into a frog, trusty Henry had grieved so much that he had bound +three iron bands round his heart, for fear it should break with grief +and sorrow. But now that the carriage was ready to carry the young +Prince to his own country, the faithful Henry helped in the bride and +bridegroom, and placed himself in the seat behind, full of joy at his +master's <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span>release. They had not proceeded far when the Prince heard a +crack as if something had broken behind the carriage; so he put his head +out of the window and asked Henry what was broken, and Henry answered, +"It was not the carriage, my master, but a band which I bound round my +heart when it was in such grief because you were changed into a frog."</p> + + + +<p>Twice afterwards on the journey there was the same noise, and each time +the Prince thought that it was some part of the carriage that had given +way; but it was only the breaking of the bands which bound the heart of +the trusty Henry, who was thenceforward free and happy.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span></p> + +<h1>PRINCESS BELLE-ETOILE.</h1> + + +<p style="text-indent: -.5em;"><span class="dropcap">O</span>NCE upon a time there were three Princesses, named Roussette, Brunette, +and Blondine, who lived in retirement with their mother, a Princess who +had lost all her former grandeur. One day an old woman called and asked +for a dinner, as this Princess was an excellent cook. After the meal was +over, the old woman, who was a fairy, promised that their kindness +should be rewarded, and immediately disappeared.</p> + +<p>Shortly after, the King came that way, with his brother and the +Lord Admiral. They were all so struck with the beauty of the three +Princesses, that the King married the youngest, Blondine, his brother +married Brunette, and the Lord Admiral married Roussette.</p> + +<p>The good Fairy, who had brought all this about, also caused the young +Queen Blondine to have three lovely children, two boys and a girl, out +of whose hair fell fine jewels. Each had a brilliant star on the +forehead, and a rich chain of gold around the neck. At the same time +Brunette, her sister, gave birth to a handsome boy. Now the young Queen +and Brunette were much attached to each other, but Roussette was jealous +of both, and the old Queen, the King's mother, hated them. Brunette died +soon after the birth of her son, and the King was absent on a warlike +expedition, so Roussette joined the wicked old Queen in forming plans to +injure Blondine. They ordered Feintise, the old Queen's waiting-woman, +to strangle the Queen's three children and the son of Princess Brunette, +and bury them secretly. But as she was about to execute this wicked +order, she was so struck by their beauty, and the appearance of the +sparkling stars on their foreheads, that she shrank from the deed.</p> + +<p>So she had a boat brought round to the beach, and put the four babes, +with some strings of jewels, into a cradle, which she placed in the +boat, and then set it adrift. The boat was soon far out at sea. The +waves rose, the rain poured in torrents, and the thunder roared. +Feintise could not doubt that the boat would be swamped, and felt +relieved by the thought that the poor little innocents would perish, +for she would otherwise always be haunted by the fear that something +would occur to betray the share she had had in their preservation.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<a name="image_p17" id="image_p17"></a><a href="images/illus017l.jpg" title="Image Page 17"> +<img src="images/illus017s.jpg" title="Image Page 17" alt="Image Page 17" width="400" height="461" /></a> +</div> + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span>But the good Fairy protected them, and after floating at sea for seven +days they were picked up by a Corsair. He was so struck by their beauty +that he altered his course, and took them home to his wife, who had no +children. She was transported with joy when he placed them in her hands. +They admired together the wonderful stars, the chains of gold that could +not be taken off their necks, and their long ringlets. Much greater was +the woman's astonishment when she combed them, for at every instant +there rolled out of their hair pearls, rubies, diamonds, and emeralds. +She told her husband of it, who was not less surprised than herself.</p> + +<p>"I am very tired," said he, "of a Corsair's life, and if the locks of +those little children continue to supply us with such treasures, I will +give up roaming the seas." The Corsair's wife, whose name was Corsine, +was enchanted at this, and loved the four infants so much the more for +it. She named the Princess, Belle-Etoile, her eldest brother, +Petit-Soleil, the second, Heureux, and the son of Brunette, Cheri.</p> + +<p>As they grew older, the Corsair applied himself seriously to their +education, as he felt convinced there was some great mystery attached +to their birth.</p> + +<p>The Corsair and his wife had never told the story of the four children, +who passed for their own. They were exceedingly united, but Prince Cheri +entertained for Princess Belle-Etoile a greater affection than the other +two. The moment she expressed a wish for anything, he would attempt even +impossibilities to gratify her.</p> + +<p>One day Belle-Etoile overheard the Corsair and his wife talking. "When I +fell in with them," said the Corsair, "I saw nothing that could give me +any idea of their birth." "I suspect," said Corsine, "that Cheri is not +their brother, he has neither star nor neck-chain." Belle-Etoile +immediately ran and told this to the three Princes, who resolved to +speak to the Corsair and his wife, and ask them to let them set out to +discover the secret of their birth. After some remonstrance they gained +their consent. A beautiful vessel was prepared, and the young Princess +and the three Princes set out. They determined to sail to the very spot +where the Corsair had found them, and made preparations for a grand +sacrifice to the fairies, for their protection and guidance. They were +about to immolate a turtle-dove, but the Princess saved its life, and +let it fly. At this moment a syren issued from the water, and said, +"Cease your anxiety, let your vessel go where it will; land where it +stops." The vessel now sailed more quickly. Suddenly they came in sight +of a city so beautiful that they were anxious their vessel should enter +the port. Their wishes were accomplished; they landed, and the shore in +a moment was crowded with people, who had observed the magnificence of +their ship. They ran and told the King the news, and as the grand +terrace of the Palace looked out upon the sea-shore, he speedily +repaired thither. The Princes, hearing the people say, "There is the +King," looked up, and made a profound obeisance. He looked earnestly +at them, and was as much charmed by the Princess's beauty, as by the +handsome mien of the young Princes. He ordered his equerry to offer +them his protection, and everything that they might require.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<a name="image_p19" id="image_p19"></a><a href="images/illus019l.jpg" title="Image Page 19"> +<img src="images/illus019s.jpg" title="Image Page 19" alt="Image Page 19" width="400" height="465" /></a> +</div> + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span>The King was so interested about these four children, that he went into +the chamber of the Queen, his mother, to tell her of the wonderful stars +which shone upon their foreheads, and everything that he admired in +them. She was thunderstruck at it, and was terribly afraid that Feintise +had betrayed her, and sent her secretary to enquire about them. What he +told her of their ages confirmed her suspicions. She sent for Feintise, +and threatened to kill her. Feintise, half dead with terror, confessed +all; but promised, if she spared her, that she would still find means to +do away with them. The Queen was appeased; and, indeed, old Feintise did +all she could for her own sake. Taking a guitar, she went and sat down +opposite the Princess's window, and sang a song which Belle-Etoile +thought so pretty that she invited her into her chamber. "My fair +child," said Feintise, "Heaven has made you very lovely, but you yet +want one thing—the dancing-water. If I had possessed it, you would not +have seen a white hair upon my head, nor a wrinkle on my face. Alas! I +knew this secret too late; my charms had already faded." "But where +shall I find this dancing-water?" asked Belle-Etoile. "It is in the +luminous forest," said Feintise. "You have three brothers; does not any +one of them love you sufficiently to go and fetch some?" "My brothers +all love me," said the Princess, "but there is one of them who would not +refuse me anything." The perfidious old woman retired, delighted at +having been so successful. The Princes, returning from the chase, found +Belle-Etoile engrossed by the advice of Feintise. Her anxiety about it +was so apparent, that Cheri, who thought of nothing but pleasing her, +soon found out the cause of it, and, in spite of her entreaties, he +mounted his white horse, and set out in search of the dancing-water. +When supper-time arrived, and the Princess did not see her brother +Cheri, she could neither eat nor drink; and desired he might be sought +for everywhere, and sent messengers to find him and bring him back.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<a name="image_p21" id="image_p21"></a><a href="images/illus021l.jpg" title="Image Page 21"> +<img src="images/illus021s.jpg" title="Image Page 21" alt="Image Page 21" width="400" height="463" /></a> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span>The wicked Feintise was very anxious to know the result of her advice; +and when she heard that Cheri had already set out, she was delighted, +and reported to the Queen-Mother all that had passed. "I admit, +Madam," said she, "that I can no longer doubt that they are the same +four children: but one of the Princes is already gone to seek the +dancing-water, and will no doubt perish in the attempt, and I shall +find similar means to do away with all of them."</p> + +<p>The plan she had adopted with regard to Prince Cheri was one of the most +certain, for the dancing-water was not easily to be obtained; it was so +notorious from the misfortunes which occurred to all who sought it, that +every one knew the road to it. He was eight days without taking any +repose but in the woods. At the end of this period he began to suffer +very much from the heat; but it was not the heat of the sun, and he did +not know the cause of it, until from the top of a mountain he perceived +the luminous forest; all the trees were burning without being consumed, +and casting out flames to such a distance that the country around was a +dry desert.</p> + +<p>At this terrible scene he descended, and more than once gave himself +up for lost. As he approached this great fire he was ready to die with +thirst; and perceiving a spring falling into a marble basin, he +alighted from his horse, approached it, and stooped to take up some +water in the little golden vase which he had brought with him, when he +saw a turtle-dove drowning in the fountain. Cheri took pity on it, and +saved it. "My Lord Cheri," she said, "I am not ungrateful; I can guide +you to the dancing-water, which, without me, you could never obtain, +as it rises in the middle of the forest, and can only be reached by +going underground." The Dove then flew away, and summoned a number of +foxes, badgers, moles, snails, ants, and all sorts of creatures that +burrow in the earth. Cheri got off his horse at the entrance of the +subterranean passage they made for him, and groped his way after the +kind Dove, which safely conducted him to the fountain. The Prince +filled his golden vase; and returned the same way he came.</p> + +<p>He found Belle-Etoile sorrowfully seated under some trees, but when she +saw him she was so pleased that she scarcely knew how to welcome him.</p> + +<p>Old Feintise learned from her spies that Cheri had returned, and that +the Princess, having washed her face with the dancing-water, had become +more lovely than ever. Finding this, she lost no time in artfully making +the Princess sigh for the wonderful singing-apple. Prince Cheri again +found her unhappy, and again found out the cause, and once more set out +on his white horse, leaving a letter for Belle-Etoile.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<a name="image_p23" id="image_p23"></a><a href="images/illus023l.jpg" title="Image Page 23"> +<img src="images/illus023s.jpg" title="Image Page 23" alt="Image Page 23" width="400" height="455" /></a> +</div> + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span>In the meanwhile, the King did not forget the lovely children, and +reproached them for never going to the Palace. They excused themselves +by saying that their brother's absence prevented them.</p> + +<p>Prince Cheri at break of day perceived a handsome young man, from whom +he learned where the singing-apple was to be found: but after travelling +some time without seeing any sign of it, he saw a poor turtle-dove fall +at his feet almost dead. He took pity on it, and restored it, when it +said, "Good-day, handsome Cheri, you are destined to save my life, and I +to do you signal service. You are come to seek for the singing-apple: it +is guarded by a terrible dragon." The Dove then led him to a place where +he found a suit of armour, all of glass: and by her advice he put it on, +and boldly went to meet the dragon. The two-headed monster came bounding +along, fire issuing from his throat; but when he saw his alarming figure +multiplied in the Prince's mirrors he was frightened in his turn. He +stopped, and looking fiercely at the Prince, apparently laden with +dragons, he took flight and threw himself into a deep chasm. The Prince +then found the tree, which was surrounded with human bones, and breaking +off an apple, prepared to return to the Princess. She had never slept +during his absence, and ran to meet him eagerly.</p> + +<p>When the wicked Feintise heard the sweet singing of the apple, her grief +was excessive, for instead of doing harm to these lovely children, she +only did them good by her perfidious counsels. She allowed some days to +pass by without showing herself; and then once more made the Princess +unhappy by saying that the dancing-water and the singing-apple were +useless without the little green bird that tells everything.</p> + +<p>Cheri again set out, and after some trouble learnt that this bird was +to be found on the top of a frightful rock, in a frozen climate. At +length, at dawn of day, he perceived the rock, which was very high and +very steep, and upon the summit of it was the bird, speaking like an +oracle, telling wonderful things. He thought that with a little +dexterity it would be easy to catch it, for it seemed very tame. He +got off his horse, and climbed up very quietly. He was so close to the +green bird that he thought he could lay hands on it, when suddenly the +rock opened and he fell into a spacious hall, and became as motionless +as a statue; he could neither stir, nor utter a complaint at his +deplorable situation. Three hundred knights, who had made the same +attempt, were in the same state. To look at each other was the only +thing permitted them.</p> + +<p>The time seemed so long to Belle-Etoile, and still no signs of her +beloved Cheri, that she fell dangerously ill; and in the hopes of +curing her, Petit-Soleil resolved to seek him.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<a name="image_p25" id="image_p25"></a><a href="images/illus025l.jpg" title="Image Page 25"> +<img src="images/illus025s.jpg" title="Image Page 25" alt="Image Page 25" width="400" height="467" /></a> +</div> + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span>But he too was swallowed up by the rock and fell into the great hall. +The first person he saw was Cheri, but he could not speak to him; and +Prince Heureux, following soon after, met with the same fate as the +other two.</p> + +<p>When Feintise was aware that the third Prince was gone, she was +exceedingly delighted at the success of her plan; and when Belle-Etoile, +inconsolable at finding not one of her brothers return, reproached +herself for their loss, and resolved to follow them, she was quite +overjoyed.</p> + +<p>The Princess was disguised as a cavalier, but had no other armour than +her helmet. She was dreadfully cold as she drew near the rock, but +seeing a turtle-dove lying on the snow, she took it up, warmed it, and +restored it to life: and the dove reviving, gaily said, "I know you, in +spite of your disguise; follow my advice: when you arrive at the rock, +remain at the bottom and begin to sing the sweetest song you know; the +green bird will listen to you; you must then pretend to go to sleep; +when it sees me, it will come down to peck me, and at that moment you +will be able to seize it."</p> + +<p>All this fell out as the Dove foretold. The green bird begged for +liberty. "First," said Belle-Etoile, "I wish that thou wouldst restore +my three brothers to me."</p> + +<p>"Under my left wing there is a red feather," said the bird: "pull it +out, and touch the rock with it."</p> + +<p>The Princess hastened to do as she was instructed; the rock split from +the top to the bottom: she entered with a victorious air the hall in +which stood the three Princes with many others; she ran towards Cheri, +who did not know her in her helmet and male attire, and could neither +speak nor move. The green bird then told the Princess she must rub the +eyes and mouth of all those she wished to disenchant with the red +feather, which good office she did to all.</p> + +<p>The three Princes and Belle-Etoile hastened to present themselves to +the King; and when Belle-Etoile showed her treasures, the little green +bird told him that the Princes Petit-Soleil and Heureux and the +Princess Belle-Etoile were his children, and that Prince Cheri was his +nephew. Queen Blondine, who had mourned for them all these years, +embraced them, and the wicked Queen-Mother and old Feintise were +justly punished. And the King, who thought his nephew Cheri the +handsomest man at Court, consented to his marriage with Belle-Etoile. +And lastly, to make everyone happy, the King sent for the Corsair and +his wife, who gladly came.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<a name="image_p27" id="image_p27"></a><a href="images/illus027l.jpg" title="Image Page 27"> +<img src="images/illus027s.jpg" title="Image Page 27" alt="Image Page 27" width="400" height="457" /></a> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span></p> + +<h1>ALADDIN,</h1> + +<h2>AND THE WONDERFUL LAMP.</h2> + + +<p style="text-indent: -.8em;"><span class="dropcap">A</span>LADDIN was the son of a poor tailor in an Eastern city. He was a +spoiled boy, and loved play better than work; so that when Mustapha, +his father, died, he was not able to earn his living; and his poor +mother had to spin cotton all day long to procure food for their +support. But she dearly loved her son, knowing that he had a good +heart, and she believed that as he grew older he would do better, and +become at last a worthy and prosperous man. One day, when Aladdin was +walking outside the town, an old man came up to him, and looking very +hard in his face, said he was his father's brother, and had long been +away in a distant country, but that now he wished to help his nephew +to get on. He then put a ring on the boy's finger, telling him that no +harm could happen to him so long as he wore it. Now, this strange man +was no uncle of Aladdin, nor was he related at all to him; but he was +a wicked magician, who wanted to make use of the lad's services, as we +shall see presently.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<a name="image_p29" id="image_p29"></a><a href="images/illus029l.jpg" title="Image Page 29"> +<img src="images/illus029s.jpg" title="Image Page 29" alt="Image Page 29" width="400" height="457" /></a> +</div> + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span>The old man led Aladdin a good way into the country, until they came to +a very lonely spot between two lofty black mountains. Here he lighted a +fire, and threw into it some gum, all the time repeating many strange +words. The ground then opened just before them, and a stone trap-door +appeared. After lifting this up, the Magician told Aladdin to go below, +down some broken steps, and at the foot of these he would find three +halls, in the last of which was a door leading to a garden full of +beautiful trees; this he was to cross, and after mounting some more +steps, he would come to a terrace, when he would see a niche, in which +there was a lighted Lamp. He was then to take the Lamp, put out the +light, empty the oil, and bring it away with him.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<a name="image_p31" id="image_p31"></a><a href="images/illus031l.jpg" title="Image Page 31"> +<img src="images/illus031s.jpg" title="Image Page 31" alt="Image Page 31" width="400" height="464" /></a> +</div> + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span>Aladdin found all the Magician had told him to be true; he passed +quickly but cautiously through the three halls, so as not even to +touch the walls with his clothes, as the Magician had directed. He +took the Lamp from the niche, threw out the oil, and put it in his +bosom. As he came back through the garden, his eyes were dazzled with +the bright-coloured fruits on the trees, shining like glass. Many of +these he plucked and put in his pockets, and then returned with the +Lamp, and called upon his uncle to help him up the broken steps. "Give +me the Lamp," said the old man, angrily. "Not till I get out safe," +cried the boy. The Magician, in a passion, then slammed down the +trap-door, and Aladdin was shut up fast enough. While crying bitterly, +he by chance rubbed the ring, and a figure appeared before him, +saying, "I am your slave, the Genius of the Ring; what do you desire?"</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[33]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<a name="image_p33" id="image_p33"></a><a href="images/illus033l.jpg" title="Image Page 33"> +<img src="images/illus033s.jpg" title="Image Page 33" alt="Image Page 33" width="400" height="465" /></a> +</div> + + +<p>Aladdin told the Genius of the Ring that he only wanted to be set free, +and to be taken back to his mother. In an instant he found himself at +home, very hungry, and his poor mother was much pleased to see him +again. He told her all that had happened; she then felt curious to look +at the Lamp he had brought, and began rubbing it, to make it shine +brighter. Both were quite amazed at seeing rise before them a strange +figure; this proved to be the Genius of the Lamp, who asked for their +commands. On hearing that food was what they most wanted, a black slave +instantly entered with the choicest fare upon a dainty dish of silver, +and with silver plates for them to eat from.</p> + +<p>Aladdin and his mother feasted upon the rich<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[34]</a></span> fare brought to them, and +sold the silver dish and plates, on the produce of which they lived +happily for some weeks. Aladdin was now able to dress well, and in +taking his usual walk, he one day chanced to see the Sultan's daughter +coming with her attendants from the baths. He was so much struck with +her beauty, that he fell in love with her at once, and told his mother +that she must go to the Sultan, and ask him to give the Princess to be +his wife. The poor woman said he must be crazy; but her son not only +knew what a treasure he had got in the Magic Lamp, but he had also found +how valuable were the shining fruits he had gathered, which he thought +at the time to be only coloured glass. At first he sent a bowlful of +these jewels—for so they were—to the Sultan, who was amazed at their +richness, and said to Aladdin's mother: "Your son shall have his wish, +if he can send me, in a week, forty bowls like this, carried by twenty +white and twenty black slaves, handsomely dressed." He thought by this +to keep what he had got, and to hear no more of Aladdin. But the Genius +of the Lamp soon brought the bowls of jewels and the slaves, and +Aladdin's mother went with them to the Sultan.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[35]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<a name="image_p35" id="image_p35"></a><a href="images/illus035l.jpg" title="Image Page 35"> +<img src="images/illus035s.jpg" title="Image Page 35" alt="Image Page 35" width="400" height="460" /></a> +</div> + + +<p>The Sultan was overjoyed at receiving these rich gifts, and at once +agreed that the Princess <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[36]</a></span>Bulbul should be the wife of Aladdin. The +happy youth then summoned the Genius of the Lamp to assist him; and +shortly set out for the Palace. He was dressed in a handsome suit of +clothes, and rode a beautiful horse; by his side marched a number of +attendants, scattering handfuls of gold among the people. As soon as +they were married, Aladdin ordered the Genius of the Lamp to build, in +the course of a night, a most superb Palace, and there the young couple +lived quite happily for some time. One day, when Aladdin was out hunting +with the Sultan, the wicked Magician, who had heard of his good luck, +and wished to get hold of the Magic Lamp, cried out in the streets, "New +lamps for old ones!" A silly maid in the Palace, hearing this, got leave +of the Princess to change Aladdin's old Lamp, which she had seen on a +cornice where he always left it, for a new one, and so the Magician got +possession of it.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[37]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<a name="image_p37" id="image_p37"></a><a href="images/illus037l.jpg" title="Image Page 37"> +<img src="images/illus037s.jpg" title="Image Page 37" alt="Image Page 37" width="400" height="461" /></a> +</div> + + +<p>As soon as the Magician had safely got the Lamp, he caused the Genius +to remove the Palace, and Bulbul within it, to Africa. Aladdin's grief +was very great, and so was the rage of the Sultan at the loss of the +Princess, and poor Aladdin's life was in some danger, for the Sultan +threatened to kill him if he did not restore his daughter in three +days. Aladdin first called upon the Genius of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[38]</a></span> Ring to help him, +but all he could do was to take him to Africa. The Princess was +rejoiced to see him again, but was very sorry to find that she had +been the cause of all their trouble by parting with the wonderful +Lamp. Aladdin, however, consoled her, and told her that he had thought +of a plan for getting it back. He then left her, but soon returned +with a powerful sleeping-draught, and advised her to receive the +Magician with pretended kindness, and pour it into his wine at dinner +that day, so as to make him fall sound asleep, when they could take +the Lamp from him. Everything happened as they expected; the Magician +drank the wine, and when Aladdin came in, he found that he had fallen +back lifeless on the couch. Aladdin took the Lamp from his bosom, and +called upon the Genius to transport the Palace, the Princess, and +himself, back to their native city. The Sultan was as much astonished +and pleased at their return, as he had been provoked at the loss of +his daughter; and Aladdin, with his Bulbul, lived long afterwards to +enjoy his good fortune.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[39]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<a name="image_p39" id="image_p39"></a><a href="images/illus039l.jpg" title="Image Page 39"> +<img src="images/illus039s.jpg" title="Image Page 39" alt="Image Page 39" width="400" height="461" /></a> +</div> + + +</div> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Frog Prince and Other Stories, by Anonymous + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FROG PRINCE AND OTHER STORIES *** + +***** This file should be named 20437-h.htm or 20437-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/3/20437/ + +Produced by K Nordquist Jacqueline Jeremy and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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