Household Tales

Household Tales
Grimm's Fairy Tales: 200 tales and 10 legends

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Household Tales by Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm

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1884

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Household Tales
Grimm's Fairy Tales: 200 tales and 10 legends

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These fairy tales by brothers Grimm are based on the original 1884 translation Household Tales of Margaret Hunt.

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eat together." She did this, but it was easy to see that she did not do it willingly. The frog enjoyed what he ate, but almost every mouthful she took choked her. At length he said, "I have eaten and am satisfied; now I am tired, carry me into thy little room and make thy little silken bed ready, and we will both lie down and go to sleep."

The King's daughter began to cry, for she was afraid of the cold frog which she did not like to touch, and which was now to sleep in her pretty, clean little bed. But the King grew angry and said, "He who helped thee when thou wert in trouble ought not afterwards to be despised by thee." So she took hold of the frog with two fingers, carried him upstairs, and put him in a corner. But when she was in bed he crept to her and said, "I am tired, I want to sleep as well as thou, lift me up or I will tell thy father." Then she was terribly angry, and took him up and threw him with all her might against the wall. "Now, thou wilt be quiet, odious frog," said she. But when he fe

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