And in order to make sure that all will go right , one of us will hold you down while the other pours on the pitch . ' And so they did ; and the elder sister let down her hair till it hung over the witch 's eyes , so that she might believe it was her own hair growing . Then the other brought a huge stone , and , in short , there was an end of the witch . The sisters were savages who had never seen a missionary . So when the sisters saw that she was dead they went to the hut , and nursed their husbands till they grew strong . Then they picked up the frog , and all went to make another home on the other side of the great lake . The Frog and the Lion Fairy -LSB- From the Journal of the Anthropological Institute . -RSB- Once upon a time there lived a king who was always at war with his neighbours , which was very strange , as he was a good and kind man , quite content with his own country , and not wanting to seize land belonging to other people . Perhaps he may have tried too much to please everybody , and that often ends in pleasing nobody ; but , at any rate , he found himself , at the end of a hard struggle , defeated in battle , and obliged to fall back behind the walls of his capital city . Once there , he began to make preparations for a long siege , and the first thing he did was to plan how best to send his wife to a place of security . The queen , who loved her husband dearly , would gladly have remained with him to share his dangers , but he would not allow it . So they parted , with many tears , and the queen set out with a strong guard to a fortified castle on the outskirts of a great forest , some two hundred miles distant . She cried nearly all the way , and when she arrived she cried still more , for everything in the castle was dusty and old , and outside there was only a gravelled courtyard , and the king had forbidden her to go beyond the walls without at least two soldiers to take care of her . Now the queen had only been married a few months , and in her own home she had been used to walk and ride all over the hills without any attendants at all ; so she felt very dull at her being shut up in this way . However , she bore it for a long while because it was the king 's wish , but when time passed and there were no signs of the war drifting in the direction of the castle , she grew bolder , and sometimes strayed outside the walls , in the direction of the forest . Then came a dreadful period , when news from the king ceased entirely . ` He must surely be ill or dead , ' thought the poor girl , who even now was only sixteen . ' I can bear it no longer , and if I do not get a letter from him soon I shall leave this horrible place and go back to see what is the matter . Oh ! I do wish I had never come away ! '
So , without telling anyone what she intended to do , she ordered a little low carriage to be built , something like a sledge , only it was on two wheels -- just big enough XXXXX hold one person . '
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