When the older daughter went back to the house, her mother called out, "Well, daughter?"
"Well, mother," said the girl, and as she spoke, a snake and a toad fell out of her mouth.
"What!" cried the mother. "Your sister has done all this, but she shall pay for it!"
With that, the mother took a stick and ran after the younger daughter.
The poor child ran away from her and hid in the woods.
The prince of that country had been hunting and happened to pass through those woods on his way home.
He saw the young girl and asked her why she was standing there and crying, all alone in the woods.
"O sir, my mother has turned me out of the house," she said.
The prince was greatly surprised to see five or six pearls and as many diamonds fall from her mouth as she spoke.
"Tell me how all this happened," said the prince.
The prince took her with him, and they went to the king's house, and there they were married, and were very happy.
But the older sister grew more and more ugly in her heart, until even her mother could not live with her.
So her mother turned her out, and no one ever heard of her again.
Once there was a poor woodcutter who had so many children that it was hard to get enough for them to eat.
They were all pretty children, but the youngest daughter was the prettiest of them all.
One cold, dark night in the fall they were sitting around the fire, when all at once something went rap! rap! rap! on the window.
The father went out to see what it was, and there stood a big white bear.
"Give me your youngest daughter, and you shall be rich," said the bear.
"Think it over," said the bear, "I will come again next week."
They talked it over and at last the youngest daughter said that she would go away with the bear when he came back.
Next Thursday night they heard the rap! rap! rap! on the window, and there was the white bear again.
The girl went out and climbed up on his back and off they went.
When they had gone a little way, the bear turned around and asked, "Are you afraid?"
"Well, hold fast to me, and there will be nothing to be afraid of," said the bear.
They went a long, long way, until they came to a great hill.
The bear knocked on the ground, and a door opened. They went in.
It was a castle, with many lights, and it shone with silver and gold.