Am I come hither,said the proud, saucy one, to serve you with water, pray? I suppose the silver tankard was brought purely for your ladyship, was it? However, you may drink out of it, if you have a fancy.
You are not over and above mannerly,answered the Fairy, without putting herself in a passion. Well, then, since you have so little breeding, and are so disobliging, I give you for a gift that at every word you speak there shall come out of your mouth a snake or a toad.
So soon as her mother saw her coming she cried out:
Well, daughter?
Well, mother?answered the pert hussy, throwing out of her mouth two vipers and two toads.
Oh! mercy,cried the mother; what is it I see? Oh! it is that wretch her sister who has occasioned all this; but she shall pay for it and immediately she ran to beat her. The poor child fled away from her, and went to hide herself in the forest, not far from thence. The Kings son, then on his return from hunting, met her, and seeing her so very pretty, asked her what she did there alone and why she cried.
Alas! sir, my mamma has turned me out of doors.
The Kings son, who saw five or six pearls and as many diamonds come out of her mouth, desired her to tell him how that happened. She thereupon told him the whole story; and so the Kings son fell in love with her, and, considering himself that such a gift was worth more than any marriage portion, conducted her to the palace of the King his father, and there married her.
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