fidence caused the fatal flower to be planted on her grave; and I have often beheld it there, spreading its green shade and fragrance over that lonely and mournful place. How sad are the consequences of unfaithfulness, and how noble is virtuous constancy.

THE FROG-PRINCE.

ONE fine evening a young princess went into a wood, and sat down by the side of a cool spring of water. She had a golden ball in her hand, which was her favourite plaything, and she amused herself with tossing it into the air, and catching it again as it fell. After a time, she threw it up so high, that, when she stretched out her hand to catch it, the ball bounded away and rolled along upon the ground, till, at last, it

fell into the spring. The princess looked into the spring after her ball, but it was very deep, so deep that she could not see the bottom of it. Then she began to bewail her loss, and said, "Alas! if I could only get my ball again, I would give all my fine clothes and jewels, and everything that I have in the world." Whilst she was speaking, a frog appeared, and said, "Princess, why do you weep so bitterly?"—"What can you do for me, you stupid frog?" said she. My golden ball

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has fallen into the spring." The frog said, "I want not your pearls and jewels and fine clothes; but, if you will love me and let me live with you, I will bring you your ball again." "What nonsense," thought the princess, "this silly frog is talking! however, he may be able to get my ball for me, and therefore I will tell him he shall have what he asks." So she

said to the frog, "Well, if you will bring me my ball, I will do all you ask." Then the frog dived into the well, and, after a little while, he came up with the ball in his mouth, and threw it on the ground. As soon as the princess saw her ball, she ran to pick it up, and was so overjoyed to have it in her hand again, that she never thought of the frog, but ran home with it as fast as she could. The frog called after her, "Stay, princess, and take me with you, as you said;" but she did not stop to hear a word.

The next day, just after the princess had sat down to dinner, she heard a strange clattering noise, as if something was coming up the marble staircase; and, soon afterwards, a gentle knock at the door, and a voice outside said—

"Open the door, my princess dear,

Open the door to thy true love here;
And mind the words that thou and I said

By the fountain cool in the green wood shade."

Then the princess ran to the door and opened it, and, behold! there was the frog, whom she had quite forgotten; she was sadly frightened, and, shutting the door as fast as she could, returned to her seat. The king her father asked her what had frightened her. "There is a nasty frog," said she, "at the door, who lifted my ball out of the spring this morning: I told him that he should live with me here, thinking that he

could never get out of the spring; but there he is at the door, and wants to come in!" Whilst she was speaking, the frog knocked again at the door, and said—

"Open the door, my princess dear,

Open the door to thy true love here;

And mind the words that thou and I said

By the fountain cool in the greenwood shade."

The king said to the young princess, “As you have given your word, you must keep it; so go and let him in." She did so, and the frog hopped into the room, and came up close to the table. "Pray lift me upon a chair," said he to the princess, "and let me sit next to you." As soon as she had done this, the frog said, "Put your plate nearer to me, that I may eat out of it." This she did, and, when he had eaten as much as he could, he said, "Now I am tired; carry me up stairs, and let me go to bed." The princess did so; and as soon as it was light he jumped up, hopped down stairs, and went out of the house. "Now," thought the princess, "he is gone, and I shall be troubled with him no more.'

But she was mistaken; for, when night came again, she heard the same tapping at the door, and, when she opened it, the frog came in and remained all night as before, till the morning broke; and the third night he did the same; but, when the princess awoke on the following morning, she was astonished to see, instead of the frog, a handsome prince gazing on her with the most beautiful eyes that ever were seen!

He then told her that he had been enchanted by a fairy, who had changed him into the form of a frog, in which he was doomed to remain till a princess should take pity on him, and let him live with her for three days. "You," said the prince,

"have broken this cruel charm, and now I have nothing to wish for but that you should go with me into my father's kingdom, where I will marry you, and love you as long as you live."

The young princess was not slow in consenting; and, as they spoke, a gay coach drove up with eight beautiful horses, in golden harness, and behind rode the prince's faithful servant, who had long and bitterly bewailed the misfortunes of his dear master. Then all set out full of joy for the prince's kingdom; which they reached safely, and lived happily there for many years.

This story (with some variations,) is common to many countries. In Scotland, it runs in this fashion :-A poor widow sent her daughter to draw water from the "Wall of the warld's end" (Well of the world's end); she travelled on till she arrived at the well; but here her troubles were not over. She found it too deep for her to get at the water, and in her vexation and distress she sat down on the brink of the well and wept. In a few minutes, however, a frog appeared, and, addressing the girl, told her he could find her plenty of water, if she would first promise to be his wife. The girl, anxious to get the water for her mother, and treating the words as a joke, gave the required promise, and had her pail filled by the obliging frog. The girl went home, and nothing more was thought of the adventure, till she and her mother were going to bed, when a tap came to the door, and, on opening it, there, to be sure, was the identical frog, come to claim the fulfilment of the girl's promise. He jumped in at once, and said

"Oh gie me my supper, my hinnie, my heart,
Oh gie me my supper, my ain true love;
Remember the promise that you and I made,
Down in the meadow at the well spring."

The frog, at last, after a good deal more conversation, asks the girl to bring an axe, which she does: upon which he sings again

"Now chop off my head, my hinnie, my heart,
Now chop off my head, my ain true love
Remember the promise that you and I made,
Down in the meadow where we twa met."

The girl had no sooner chopped off his head, than, (like the
fox in the "Golden Bird,") he starts up
"the bonniest young
lad that ever was seen." They were then, of course, married,
and lived happily all their days.

THE BROWNIE OF BODSBECK.

THERE was once a Brownie who attached himself to the house of Bodsbeck, in Scotland, and exerted himself so diligently for many years in his master's service, assisting, though invisibly, and principally by night, in the household, farm, and dairy work, that he added very materially to the prosperity of the family. His meat was always put aside for him in a particular place, whence he removed it, and returned the dish regularly when done with. The services of this household spirit, however, were unexpectedly lost, through an unfortunate mistake on the part of the master, who, it would seem, was either not sufficiently aware of the habits and dispositions of this dwarfish race, or else had unluckily forgot. He had, on some occasion or other, given a kind of feast to his household and farm servants, and it occurred to him that in the general merry-making, the useful Brownie ought not to be