1 When it was open the wild man stepped out, gave him the golden ball, and hurried away.
2 The boy, who wanted to have his ball back, cast all thought to the winds, and brought the key.
3 And then Ashputtel took the dishes to her mother, rejoicing to think that she should now go to the ball.
4 Then Ashputtel brought the dish to her mother, overjoyed at the thought that now she should go to the ball.
5 The next day he again went and asked for his ball; the wild man said: 'Open my door,' but the boy would not.
6 The princess looked into the spring after her ball, but it was very deep, so deep that she could not see the bottom of it.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE FROG-PRINCE 7 The king had a son of eight years, who was once playing in the courtyard, and while he was playing, his golden ball fell into the cage.
8 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.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE FROG-PRINCE 9 Then the frog put his head down, and dived deep under the water; and after a little while he came up again, with the ball in his mouth, and threw it on the edge of the spring.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE FROG-PRINCE 10 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.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE FROG-PRINCE 11 As soon as the young princess saw her ball, she ran to pick it up; and she was so overjoyed to have it in her hand again, that she never thought of the frog, but ran home with it as fast as she could.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE FROG-PRINCE 12 Then she did as she was told; but when all was done she could not help crying, for she thought to herself, she should so have liked to have gone with them to the ball; and at last she begged her mother very hard to let her go.