English

THE FROG-PRINCE One fine evening a young princess put on her bonnet and clogs, and went out to take a walk by herself in the woods; and when she came to a cool spring of water, that rose in the midst of it, she sat herself down to rest a while. Now she had a golden ball in her hand, which was her favourite plaything; and she was always tossing it up into the air, and catching it again as it fell. After a time she threw it up so high that she missed catching it as it fell; and the ball bounded away, and rolled along upon the ground, till at last it fell down into the spring.

THE RABBIT WHO WAS AFRAID. Once upon a time, a very long way from here, a little wild Rabbit sat under a tall palm tree. All about him were other tall palm trees and larger animals than he, and the wild rabbit thought and thought. And after the Rabbit had thought a while he said to himself, “What if the earth should crack and swallow me up.” Just then the wind blew a cocoanut down from a tree and it fell upon the ground right beside the little wild Rabbit.