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 228 So at last she lifted the frog up on to her lap, and it lay there for a time, till at last it said:

Well, she didn't mind doing that, so she got it a bowl of milk and bread, and fed it well. And when the frog had finished, it said:

But that the girl wouldn't do, till her stepmother said: "Do what you promised, girl; girls must keep their promises. Do what you're bid, or out you go, you and your froggie."

So the girl took the frog with her to bed, and kept it as far away from her as she could. Well, just as the day was beginning to break what should the frog say but:

At first the girl wouldn't, for she thought of what the frog had done for her at the Well of the World's