Source on the brink of light

In kind old time, - and it and really was kind time though there was that not my time and not your time, and nobody's time - a vein on light the girl. Mother at it has died, and the father married another. The stepmother has begun to hate the stepdaughter that the girl was more beautiful, than it, held it in a black body, forced to carry out all manual labour on the house and not for a moment did not leave alone. At last she has solved and absolutely of it to get rid. Has submitted to the girl решето and has told:

- Go, type in it решето waters from a source, that on the brink of light. Yes bring решето полнехоньким, instead of that badly is necessary to you!

The stepmother thought, that to the girl for what not to find a source on the brink of light and if will find so unless it will inform water in решете?

And here the girl has gone to a way and each passer asked, where that source, what on the brink of light? But anybody did not know it, and she all thought yes guessed, as to it to be.

At last any strange old woman that trudged having bent double, has shown it road on a world's end and has explained how there to reach.

The girl has obeyed the old woman and has reached a source on the brink of light. But only it has scooped решетом some ice cold-prestudenoj water as all water has flowed out. The girl has again typed waters in решето, and still many times typed, but water every time poured out, so in the end the poor thing has sat down on the earth and was filled in with bitter tears.

And suddenly she has heard кваканье. Has lifted a head and has seen the big frog. The frog has stared at the girl, having goggled, and has asked:

- What happens, the darling?

- Ah, I poor, poor! - the girl has told. - the stepmother has sent me in a such distance and ordered to type in решето waters from a source on the brink of light, and I cannot.

- Here that, - the frog has told, - promise to execute all my orders the whole night - since evening and till the morning, and I will learn you how to type waters in решето.

The girl has agreed, and the frog has told:

With clay cover it, lay out a moss, and you will bring in it water in the house.

And then - pryg-skok - has skipped away and has flopped directly in a source on the brink of light.

The girl has dug a moss, выстлала it a bottom решета, has covered all решето with clay and has lowered it in a source on the brink of light. This time water has not escaped from решета, and the girl wished to go home as suddenly the frog has put out a head from a source on the brink of light and проквакала:

- So remember that promised!

- Well, - the girl has answered.

And itself has thought: "That any frog can make the bad to me!"

Here it has returned to the stepmother with решетом full of water from a source on the brink of light. The stepmother has not burst nearly for a rage, but words has not told.

In the same evening the girl has heard silent knock at a door at the floor - tuk-tuk-tuk and someone's voice:

Door to me open, about a charm washing, the Door to me open, expensive! Recollect, дружочек, that we spoke On the brink of light, near a source!

- What does it amount to?! - the stepmother has exclaimed, and the girl had to tell to it about everything, that with it was, and about it has given what promise to a frog.

- Girls should fulfil the promises! - the stepmother has told. - go now open a door!

It was glad-radyoshenka, that the stepdaughter should obey any vile frog.

The girl has risen, has opened a door, sees - behind a door a frog from a source on the brink of light. Pryg-pryg, skok-skok - and here the frog has jumped up to the girl and проквакала:

Take on knees, a charm washing, Take me, expensive! Recollect, more likely, that we spoke On the brink of light, near a source!

It would not be desirable the girl to put to itself on knees a frog, but the stepmother has ordered:

- Now take it, the impudent little girl! Girls should fulfil the promises!

It was necessary to the girl to plant a frog to itself on knees. And that has sat-has sat, and has asked:

Allow to me to eat, about a charm washing,

Allow to me to eat, expensive!

Recollect more likely, that we spoke

On the brink of light, near a source!

The girl has executed this request willingly - has brought breads, a jug of milk and has to satiety fed a frog. And the frog has gorged on and speaks:

Lay down with me to sleep, about a charm washing,

Lay down with me to sleep, expensive!

Recollect, дружочек, that you spoke,

When has got tired so near a source!

Here the girl was indignant. But the stepmother has told angrily:

- Having pledged a word - keep! Girls should fulfil the promises! Do that order or be cleaned from here together with the лягушонкой!

And here the girl took a frog with itself in bed, but has put it as it is possible further from itself. And when day was engaged, the frog has told to it:

Cut to me a head, my charm!

Cut more soon, expensive!

Recollect, дружочек, that you promised

There, on a lawn near a source!

The girl at first has refused - after all it remembered, how the frog at a source on the brink of light has helped it. But the frog has repeated the request. Then the girl has followed an axe and has chopped off to it a head. And suddenly - about a miracle! - before it the young fine prince has appeared. It has told to the girl how the malicious wizard has bewitched it, and has added:

- Remove a spell from me that girl that would agree to execute all my orders the whole night - since evening and till the morning could only, and would chop off to me a head in the morning.

Well the stepmother also was surprised, having seen instead of a vile frog of the young prince! And believe to me, not to liking it was necessary to it, when the prince has told, that that she has released him from evil spells wishes to marry its stepdaughter. But all of them have equally got married and have lodged in the lock. And the stepmother needed to be consoled in that, there will be no it, the stepdaughter never would marry the prince.