Briar Rose
Too Long; Didn't Read
ALONG time ago there lived a King and Queen, who said every day, ‘If only we had a child’; but for a long time they had none.
It fell out once, as the Queen was bathing, that a frog crept out of the water on to the land, and said to her: ‘Your wish shall be fulfilled; before a year has passed you shall bring a daughter into the world.’