helped in the bride and bridegroom, and then
mounted the seat behind, full of joy at his master’s
recovery of his proper form.

They had not proceeded very far before the prince
and princess heard a crack as though one of the
carriage springs had given way.

The prince put his head out of the window and
asked trusty Henry what was broken.

His servant answered: ‘It is nothing in or about
the carriage, dear master, but one of the bands
has given way that I had bound round my heart
when I was in grief because you were changed
into a frog.’

Twice afterwards, on the journey, they heard the
same noise, and each time the prince thought
that some portion of the carriage had given way;
but it was only the breaking of the bands that
bound the heart of trusty Henry.

Thenceforth all lived in happiness.

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THE
FROG
PRINCE