Excerpt: ...with a piece of embroidered velvet. They laid the roll before the Princess, bowed three times, and then flew away again. The Princess carried the carpet back into the chamber and put on her frog-skin again, and then she went back and lay down quietly beside the Prince. The next morning when the Prince was ready to set out, the frog brought the roll of carpet to him. "Here," said she; "carry this to your father, 145 but do not open it upon the way lest the dust spoil its beauty." The Prince took the carpet and ...
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Excerpt: ...with a piece of embroidered velvet. They laid the roll before the Princess, bowed three times, and then flew away again. The Princess carried the carpet back into the chamber and put on her frog-skin again, and then she went back and lay down quietly beside the Prince. The next morning when the Prince was ready to set out, the frog brought the roll of carpet to him. "Here," said she; "carry this to your father, 145 but do not open it upon the way lest the dust spoil its beauty." The Prince took the carpet and rode away. When he reached the Tsar's palace his two brothers were already there, and each had brought with him a piece of carpet so fine and rich that it was difficult to say which of the two was the more beautiful. When the older brothers saw Ivan they began to laugh. "Come!" said they. "Let us see what kind of a carpet he has brought from his swamp home. No doubt it is very wonderful." The Prince laid the roll of carpet upon the floor and opened it out and when they saw it every one was struck with wonder. The elder Princes had not a word to say. Never before had they seen such a carpet. Not only was it as thick and soft as eiderdown, but it shone with wondrous colors that changed as one looked at them, and it was embroidered with gold in strange designs. The Tsar was filled with admiration. All the same he still was unwilling to have a frog reign in his kingdom. 146 "This is all very well," said he, "and never before have I seen such a beautiful carpet. But now I wish you all to appear before me to-morrow with your wives. Let the Princesses wear their most beautiful dresses and their finest jewels, and whichever of you has the wife best fitted to be Queen, to him will I leave the kingdom." When the Prince Ivan heard this he was in despair. How could he ever bring the frog to court and present her to the Tsar as though she were a beautiful Princess? When he went...
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