The Waldorf family . 0 enchantress. But she had been standing outside,and had overheard every thing. Just as he reachedthe door, she threw her silver net over his head,and in an instant Harold had assumed the form ofa little green frog, which the wicked queen threwinto the fish-pond along with her former the moment when these wonderful eventswere occurring in the Pearl Islands, Bellah was inthe dairy at Lanillis, straining the mornings the moment that Harold was changed into afrog, the bell which he wore about his neck beganto ring, and Bellah heard it distinctly. It sound
The Waldorf family . 0 enchantress. But she had been standing outside,and had overheard every thing. Just as he reachedthe door, she threw her silver net over his head,and in an instant Harold had assumed the form ofa little green frog, which the wicked queen threwinto the fish-pond along with her former the moment when these wonderful eventswere occurring in the Pearl Islands, Bellah was inthe dairy at Lanillis, straining the mornings the moment that Harold was changed into afrog, the bell which he wore about his neck beganto ring, and Bellah heard it distinctly. It soundedto her like a clap of thunder, for she knew Haroldmust be in danger. She dropped the strainer intothe milk, and only waiting to put on her Sundaygown and her new wooden shoes, she took hermagic staff and hurried off. When she reachedthe cross-road, she planted her staff firmly in theground, and walking three times round it, withclasped hands, she uttered the charm : By the spell that was laidOn the wild apple-tree,. h.^l_^^==5g»=53^; sg\jiw-?= Conduct me in safetyOer land and oer sea. The staff instantly disappeared, and in its placestood a little bay mare, all groomed, and saddled,and bridled, with a knot of ribbons at each ear, anda plume of blue feathers on her forehead. Bellahmounted her new steed, who at first went off on awalk, then warmed up into a trot, and at laststarted into a furious gallop. She went so swiftly,that hedges and ditches, houses and churches,passed before Bellahs eyes like the whirling of aspindle. But she did not mind this, for she wasanxious to find Harold, and she urged her baymare to its utmost speed by singing: The swallow skims the fields of air, But the wind outstrips the swallows speed;And swifter still is the lightnings glare,But swifter be thou, my magic steed! The mare understood her wishes, and dashed on,like a straw in a whirlwind, until she reached thefoot of a high mountain called the Stags Leap.
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