This time the mother said : ` Now that I am content with the tests I gave , I want you to go and fetch home your brides , and I will prepare the wedding-feast . ' You may imagine what the youngest brother felt on hearing these words . Whence was he to fetch a bride ? Would the frog be able to help him in this new difficulty ? With bowed head , and feeling very sad , he sat down on the edge of the pond . Flop ! and once more the faithful frog was beside him . ` What is troubling you so much ? ' she asked him , and then the youth told her everything . ` Will you take me for a wife ? ' she asked . ` What should I do with you as a wife , ' he replied , wondering at her strange proposal . ` Once more , will you have me or will you not ? ' she said . ' I will neither have you , nor will I refuse you , ' said he . At this the frog disappeared ; and the next minute the youth beheld a lovely little chariot , drawn by two tiny ponies , standing on the road . The frog was holding the carriage door open for him to step in . ` Come with me , ' she said . And he got up and followed her into the chariot . As they drove along the road they met three witches ; the first of them was blind , the second was hunchbacked , and the third had a large thorn in her throat .
When the three witches beheld the chariot , with the frog seated pompously among the cushions , they broke into such fits of laughter that the eyelids of the blind one burst open , and she recovered her sight ; the hunchback rolled about on the ground in merriment till her back became straight , and in a roar of laughter the thorn fell out of the throat of the XXXXX witch .
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