(Back of card)

..."What does the Frog want with you?" asked the King.

"Oh, dear father, when I was sitting yesterday by the fountain, my golden ball fell into the water. A frog fetched it up again because I cried so much, but first I had to promise that he should be my companion. I never thought that he could come out of the water, but somehow he is here and now he wants to come in."

The King said, "What you have promised you must peform. Go let him in." So the King's daughter opened the door. The Frog hopped in after her right up to her chair and said, "Take me up." She hesitated so long that the King had to order her to obey....

The Frog seemed to relish his dinner, but every bite that the King's daughter ate nearly choked her. Then the Frog said, "I feel very tired now; carry me upstairs into thy chamber and make thy bed ready that we may sleep together." The King's daughter began to cry, for she was afraid of the cold Frog and dared not touch him; and now he wanted to sleep with her in her own beautiful, clean bed!

But her tears only made the King very angry, and he said, "He who helped you in the time of your trouble must not now be despised!" So she took the Frog up with two fingers and put him in a corner of her chamber. But the Frog now wanted to get into bed with her....

Artist: Unknown 1919
(from Old Fashioned Fairy Tales)