- She threw the ball so high that the princess didn’t see where the ball had gone, but she just heard a heavy splash coming from the nearby lake. - ”Oh, no! I can’t believe I lost my ball,” wept the princess in despair. - “Princess would you like me to help you get the ball out of the lake?” he asked, kindly. - “Yes, yes, that would be lovely,” clapped the princess happily, “I will give you as many gems and diamonds as you ask for.” But the frog shook his head. - What I ask is that you love me and let me live with you and eat from your plate and sleep in your bed.” “What a terrible idea,” thought the princess, ”I doubt that the nasty frog will ever be able to find my ball and even if he did, he wouldn’t be able to come to visit me – the castle is too far for him”. - So she replied: “Yes, sure, just bring me my ball and I will grant your wishes.” The frog dived under the water and soon his head popped out of the surface. - The princess took her favourite plaything and ran towards the castle overjoyed. - She forgot what she had promised the frog and left him calling after her, “Princess, take me with you as you promised.” But she never turned back. - The next day the princess was sitting with her family at the dinner table when someone knocked gently on the door. - The princess ran to the door and was surprised to see that it was the frog, who had somehow succeeded to reach the palace on his own. - The princess shut the door immediately and sat back at the table. - “Oh, father…" said the princess not knowing how to explain what happened at the lake, “Yesterday I was playing with the gold ball you gave me as a present, when I dropped it in the lake. - There was a frog there and the frog offered to help me get it out from the lake bottom. - In return I had to promise that he could live with me here.” The king thought for a while, but then he said, “You are a princess and princesses should never give empty promises. - Stick to your words and let him in.” The princess went to open the door and the frog jumped to the dinner table, making nasty tapping and splashing sounds. - The frog turned his head to the princess. - “Please lift me so that I can sit on the chair next to you,” he asked. - The princess placed the frog on the chair next to her. - She was wiping her hand in disgust when the frog spoke again. - “Lift me on the table now, so that I can eat off your gold plate.” The princess took him in her hand unwillingly and put him next to her plate. - After dinner the frog spoke again. - “I am so tired now,” he said. - “Take me to your bedroom and put me in your bed.” So the princess took him to her chamber and left him on the pillow next to hers. - The frog slept next to the princess as she had promised him and in the morning he hopped downstairs and went out of the castle. - “Phew,” sighed the princess when she woke up and saw that the frog was gone, “He won’t bother me again, now that I have granted him the wish.” But she was wrong, because the frog came back in the evening. - She opened the door and the frog jumped in with a tapping sound. - He asked the princess to sleep next to her again and she put him on the pillow. - The next morning the princess woke up and saw that the frog was gone. - But the evening came and the frog came along with it for a third time. - When she woke up in the morning the frog was gone and a handsome prince was looking at her with his beautiful brown eyes. - “I wish nothing else from you, but to marry me and live with me in my father’s kingdom.” The young princess didn’t take long to agree