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d to stone. Meanwhile a royal carriage drew up in the courtyard ofthe old mans cottage, bright as the sun, with four splendidhorses, and the coachman cracked his whip—till the cottagefell to pieces with the sound. The king took both the old man and his daughter into thecarriage, and they drove away… … APPENDIX NOTE ITHE FROG PRINCESS This is certainly a Nature story. The princess andher attendants are clearly personification of the elementalforces. The classical scholar cannot fail to be struck bythe likeness of her metamorphoses to the story of Peleusand Thetis. Indeed the Protean myth so…
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