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Speaker 1: Hello, friends, and welcome to sleep tight stories the little

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Speaker 1: singing Frog. There was once a poor laborer and his

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Speaker 1: wife who had no children. Every day the woman would

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Speaker 1: sigh and say, if only we had a child. Then

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Speaker 1: the man would sigh too and say, it would be

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Speaker 1: nice to have a little daughter, wouldn't it. At last,

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Speaker 1: they went on a long journey to a special place,

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Speaker 1: and there they prayed that God would give them a child,

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Speaker 1: any kind of child. The woman prayed, I'd be thankful

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Speaker 1: for a child of our own, even if it were

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Speaker 1: a frog. God heard their prayer and sent them a

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Speaker 1: little daughter. Not a little daughter, however, but a little

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Speaker 1: frog daughter. They loved their little frog child dearly and

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Speaker 1: played with her and laughed and clapped their hands as

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Speaker 1: they watched her hopping about the house. But when the

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Speaker 1: neighbors came in and whispered, why that child of theirs

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Speaker 1: is nothing but a frog, the mother and father were

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Speaker 1: upset by their comments, and they decided that when people

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Speaker 1: were around, they would keep their child away from them.

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Speaker 1: So the frog girl grew up without playmates of her

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Speaker 1: own age, seeing only her father and mother. She used

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Speaker 1: to play around her father as he worked. He was

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Speaker 1: a vine dresser in a big vineyard, and of course

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Speaker 1: it was great fun for the little frog girl to

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Speaker 1: hop about among the vines. Every day at noontime, the

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Speaker 1: woman used to come to the vineyard carrying the husband's

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Speaker 1: meal in a basket. The years went by, and she

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Speaker 1: grew old and feeble, and the daily trip to the

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Speaker 1: vineyard began to tire her, and the basket seemed to

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Speaker 1: her to grow heavier and heavier. Let me help you, mother,

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Speaker 1: the frog daughter said, Let me carry father's meal to him,

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Speaker 1: and you can sit home and rest. So from that

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Speaker 1: time on, the frog girl insisted of the old woman

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Speaker 1: to carry the basket to the vineyard. While the old

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Speaker 1: man ate, the frog girl would hop up into the

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Speaker 1: branches of a tree and sing. She sang very sweetly,

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Speaker 1: and her old father called her his little singing frog. Now,

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Speaker 1: one day, while she was singing, the tsar's youngest son

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Speaker 1: rode by and heard her. He stopped his horse and

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Speaker 1: looked this way and that, But for the life of

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Speaker 1: him he couldn't see who it was who was singing

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Speaker 1: so sweetly. Who is singing? He asked the old man.

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Speaker 1: But the old man, who as I told you before,

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Speaker 1: was concerned about his frog daughter being seen by strangers.

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Speaker 1: At first pretended not to hear the question, and when

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Speaker 1: the young prince repeated his question, he answered gruffly, there's

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Speaker 1: no one singing. But the next day, at the same time,

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Speaker 1: when the prince was again riding by, he heard the

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Speaker 1: same sweet voice, and he stopped again and listened. Surely,

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Speaker 1: old man, he said, there is someone singing. It is

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Speaker 1: a lovely girl. I know it is. Why if I

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Speaker 1: could find her, I would be happy to marry her

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Speaker 1: at once and take her home to my father, the Tsar.

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Speaker 1: Don't be silly, young man, the father said, I mean

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Speaker 1: what I say. The prince declared I would marry her

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Speaker 1: in a minute. Are you sure you would? Yes, I'm

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Speaker 1: sure very well. Then we'll see. The old man looked

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Speaker 1: up into the tree and called, come down, little singing frog,

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Speaker 1: A prince wants to marry you. So the little frog

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Speaker 1: girl hopped down from among the branches and stood before

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Speaker 1: the prince. She's my own daughter her, the father said,

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Speaker 1: even if she does look like a frog. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: matter what she looks like. The prince said, I love

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Speaker 1: her singing, and I meant what I said. I will

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Speaker 1: marry her if she'll marry me. My father, the tar

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Speaker 1: wants me and my brothers to present to him our

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Speaker 1: brides tomorrow. He wishes that all the brides bring him

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Speaker 1: a flower, and he says he will give his kingdom

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Speaker 1: to the prince whose bride brings the loveliest flower. Little

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Speaker 1: singing frog, will you be my bride? And will you

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Speaker 1: come to court tomorrow bringing a flower? Yes, my prince,

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Speaker 1: the frog girl said, I will, But I must not

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Speaker 1: must ride. So will you send me a snow white

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Speaker 1: rooster from your father's barnyard. I will, the prince promised,

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Speaker 1: and before night the snow white rooster had arrived at

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Speaker 1: the laborer's cottage. Early the next morning, the frog girl

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Speaker 1: said to the sun, Oh, golden Sun, she said, I

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Speaker 1: need your help. Give me some lovely clothes woven from

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Speaker 1: your golden rays, so I would be beautiful for my

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Speaker 1: prince when I go to court. The sun heard her

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Speaker 1: and gave her a gown of cloth of gold. Instead

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Speaker 1: of a flower, She took a spear of wheat in

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Speaker 1: her hand, and then when the time came, she popped

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Speaker 1: onto the white rooster and rode to the palace. The

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Speaker 1: guards at the palace gate at first refused to admit her.

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Speaker 1: This is no place for frogs. They said to her,

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Speaker 1: they murmured to one another, the youngest prince's bride, she

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Speaker 1: looks like a frog, and that was certainly a rooster

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Speaker 1: she was riding, wasn't it. They stepped inside the gates

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Speaker 1: to look after her, and then they saw an amazing sight.

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Speaker 1: The frog girl, still seated on the white rooster, was

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Speaker 1: shaking out the folds of a golden gown. She dropped

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Speaker 1: the gown over her head, and instantly there was no

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Speaker 1: frog and no white rooster, but a lovely girl riding

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Speaker 1: on a snow white horse. Well, the frog girl entered

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Speaker 1: the palace with two other girls, the promised brides of

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Speaker 1: the older princes. They were just ordinary girls, both of them.

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Speaker 1: To see them, you wouldn't have paid any attention to

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Speaker 1: them one way or the other. But standing beside the

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Speaker 1: lovely bride of the youngest prince, they seemed more ordinary

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Speaker 1: than ever, the first girl had a rose in her hand.

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Speaker 1: The Tsar looked at it and at her, sniffed his

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Speaker 1: nose slightly and turned his head. The second girl had

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Speaker 1: a carnation. The Tsar looked at her for a moment

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Speaker 1: and murmured, dear me, this will never do. Then he

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Speaker 1: looked at the youngest prince's bride, and his eyes turned

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Speaker 1: kind and he said, ah, this is more like it.

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Speaker 1: She gave him the spear of wheat, and he took

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Speaker 1: it and held it aloft. Then he reached out his

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Speaker 1: as he said to his sons and all the court,

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Speaker 1: See how how amazing she is. And yet she knows

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Speaker 1: the useful as well as the beautiful, For she has

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Speaker 1: brought me a spear of wheat. The youngest Prince shall

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Speaker 1: be the sorrow after me, and she shall be Sarina.

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Speaker 1: So the little frog girl, whose parents loved her more

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Speaker 1: than anything, married the youngest Prince, and when the time came,

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Speaker 1: wore a crown