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Updated: May 10, 2025
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'I'll help you right enough, my dear Prince, said the little toad; 'just you go home, and I'll soon follow you. With these words, Puddocky, with a spring quite unlike her usual slow movements, jumped into the water and disappeared. The Prince rose up and went sadly on his way, for he didn't believe it possible that the little toad could really help him in his present difficulty.
In the carriage itself sat Puddocky, who kissed her hand to the Prince out of the window as she passed by. Sunk deep in thought over the fickleness of fortune that had granted him two of his wishes and now seemed about to deny him the last and best, the Prince hardly noticed the absurd equipage, and still less did he feel inclined to laugh at its comic appearance.
'Oh, Puddocky, this time you can't help me, for the task is beyond even your power, replied the Prince. 'Still, answered the toad, 'you may as well tell me your difficulty, for who knows but I mayn't be able to help you this time also. The Prince then told her the task they had been set to do.
The Prince had no wish to take such an insignificant bundle with him; but he didn't like to hurt Puddocky's feelings by refusing it, so he took up the little packet, put it in his pocket, and bade the little toad farewell. Puddocky watched the Prince till he was out of sight and then crept back into the water.
Hardly had he sat down under the bridge and heaved a sigh, than Puddocky came out; and, sitting down opposite him, asked, 'What's wrong with you now, dear Prince? The Prince, who this time never doubted the little toad's power to help him, told her his difficulty at once.
The Prince answered impatiently, 'There's not much good my telling you, Puddocky, for you couldn't help me if I did. 'Don't be too sure of that, replied the toad; 'tell me your trouble and we'll see. Then the Prince became most confidential and told the little creature why he had been sent out of his father's kingdom.
The youngest was very depressed this time and said to himself, 'Anything else Puddocky could have helped me in, but this task is quite beyond her power. How could she ever find a beautiful wife for me?
The Prince married Puddocky and reigned long and happily with her, and if they aren't dead I suppose they are living still. There once lived in a small town in China a man named Hok Lee. He was a steady industrious man, who not only worked hard at his trade, but did all his own house-work as well, for he had no wife to do it for him.
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