Beansie Does It Again

Beansie knew he'd gone and done it again.  He had been playing in the yard with his little sister Mopsie.  The two puppy dogs were very frisky. They were running around and chasing butterflies together.  The bright summer sun beat down on them and once in awhile, they would rest under the shade of the big, old tree or take a sip of cool, clear water.  Mrs.  Johnson had put a big bowl of water for them in the yard so they could take a sip when they got thirsty.

Mrs. J. was lounging on her favorite lawn chair, a book in her hand and a tall, cool drink on the table next to her.

"Betcha I can run faster than you," Beansie teased his sister. They were both brown and tan with white tips on their tails.

"I can beat you, Beansie!" Mopsie told him.  "Girls can do anything better than boys can."

They began to run around the yard together.  They were yapping wildly and having a wonderful time.  And then it happened.

Beansie lost his footing and crashed into Mrs. J.'s vegetable garden.

He toppled over her tomatoes.

He pounded on her potatoes.

He let loose on her lettuce.

He ransacked her radishes.

He discombobulated her cucumbers.

He got up and shook himself off.  He looked at Mrs.  J.  She was slowly getting out of her chair. She looked like she was about to cry.  Beansie knew how much she loved her garden. She spent hours in there everyday. Her vegetables and flowers were her pride and joy. She loved them so much, almost as much as she loved Beansie and Mopsie.

He hung his head down in shame.  He knew that he had just broke Mrs.  J.'s heart.  He felt terrible.  He had now ruined her garden and he knew that she was going to cry.

"Now you've gone and done it," Mopsie whispered to him.

Beansie felt like crying.  He didn't want to break Mrs.  J's heart.  She was so good to them, always baking them doggie biscuits  and scratching them behind the ears.  He really loved her a lot.

Mrs.  J. walked over to him and Beansie knew he was in for it.  But then the funniest thing happened.  She bent down and hugged him hard.

"It's okay, Beansie honey," she told him.  "I know you're a puppy and you like to play a lot.  I'm not mad at  you.  How could I be mad at this adorable face?"

She gave him kisses all over his nose and he licked her back.  She began to laugh and pretty soon, Mopsie came over to join in the family  hug.

"Just wait until Mr. Johnson comes home," Mrs.  J said. "He won't be happy!"

Beansie loved Mr.  J.  a lot too.  Mr. J. was his favorite person in the whole world, even more so than Mrs. J.

"Don't worry," Mrs.  J.  told him. "I'll just tell him that I did it."  And she kissed him again.

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Brothers Grimm The Frog Prince

One fine evening a young princess put on her bonnet and clogs, and went out to take a walk by herself in a wood; and when she came to a cool spring of water with a rose in the middle of it, she sat herself down to rest a while. Now she had a golden ball in her hand, which was her favourite plaything; and she was always tossing it up into the air, and catching it again as it fell.
     After a time she threw it up so high that she missed catching it as it fell; and the ball bounded away, and rolled along on the ground, until at last it fell down into the spring. The princess looked into the spring after her ball, but it was very deep, so deep that she could not see the bottom of it. She began to cry, and said, 'Alas! if I could only get my ball again, I would give all my fine clothes and jewels, and everything that I have in the world.'
     Whilst she was speaking, a frog put its head out of the water, and said, 'Princess, why do you weep so bitterly?'
     'Alas!' said she, 'what can you do for me, you nasty frog? My golden ball has fallen into the spring.'
     The frog said, 'I do not want your pearls, and jewels, and fine clothes; but if you will love me, and let me live with you and eat from off your golden plate, and sleep on your bed, I will bring you your ball again.'
     'What nonsense,' thought the princess, 'this silly frog is talking! He can never even get out of the spring to visit me, though he may be able to get my ball for me, and therefore I will tell him he shall have what he asks.'
     So she said to the frog, 'Well, if you will bring me my ball, I will do all you ask.'
     Then the frog put his head down, and dived deep under the water; and after a little while he came up again, with the ball in his mouth, and threw it on the edge of the spring.
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     As soon as the young princess saw her ball, she ran to pick it up; and she was so overjoyed to have it in her hand again, that she never thought of the frog, but ran home with it as fast as she could.
     The frog called after her, 'Stay, princess, and take me with you as you said,'
     But she did not stop to hear a word.
     The next day, just as the princess had sat down to dinner, she heard a strange noise - tap, tap - plash, plash - as if something was coming up the marble staircase, and soon afterwards there was a gentle knock at the door, and a little voice cried out and said:

'Open the door, my princess dear,
Open the door to thy true love here!
And mind the words that thou and I said
By the fountain cool, in the greenwood shade.'

 
     Then the princess ran to the door and opened it, and there she saw the frog, whom she had quite forgotten. At this sight she was sadly frightened, and shutting the door as fast as she could came back to her seat.
     The king, her father, seeing that something had frightened her, asked her what was the matter.
     'There is a nasty frog,' said she, 'at the door, that lifted my ball for me out of the spring this morning. I told him that he should live with me here, thinking that he could never get out of the spring; but there he is at the door, and he wants to come in.'
     While she was speaking the frog knocked again at the door, and said:

'Open the door, my princess dear,
Open the door to thy true love here!

And mind the words that thou and I said
By the fountain cool, in the greenwood shade.'

     Then the king said to the young princess, 'As you have given your word you must keep it; so go and let him in.'
     She did so, and the frog hopped into the room, and then straight on - tap, tap - plash, plash - from the bottom of the room to the top, till he came up close to the table where the princess sat.
     'Pray lift me upon chair,' said he to the princess, 'and let me sit next to you.'
     As soon as she had done this, the frog said, 'Put your plate nearer to me, that I may eat out of it.'
     This she did, and when he had eaten as much as he could, he said, 'Now I am tired; carry me upstairs, and put me into your bed.' And the princess, though very unwilling, took him up in her hand, and put him upon the pillow of her own bed, where he slept all night long.
     As soon as it was light the frog jumped up, hopped downstairs, and went out of the house.
     'Now, then,' thought the princess, 'at last he is gone, and I shall be troubled with him no more.'
     But she was mistaken; for when night came again she heard the same tapping at the door; and the frog came once more, and said:

'Open the door, my princess dear,
Open the door to thy true love here!
And mind the words that thou and I said
By the fountain cool, in the greenwood shade.'

     And when the princess opened the door the frog came in, and slept upon her pillow as before, till the morning broke. And the third night he did the same. But when the princess awoke on the following morning she was astonished to see, instead of the frog, a handsome prince, gazing on her with the most beautiful eyes she had ever seen and standing at the head of her bed.
He told her that he had been enchanted by a spiteful fairy, who had changed him into a frog; and that he had been fated so to abide till some princess should take him out of the spring, and let him eat from her plate, and sleep upon her bed for three nights.
     'You,' said the prince, 'have broken his cruel charm, and now I have nothing to wish for but that you should go with me into my father's kingdom, where I will marry you, and love you as long as you live.'
     The young princess, you may be sure, was not long in saying 'Yes' to all this; and as they spoke a brightly coloured coach drove up, with eight beautiful horses, decked with plumes of feathers and a golden harness; and behind the coach rode the prince's servant, faithful Heinrich, who had bewailed the misfortunes of his dear master during his enchantment so long and so bitterly, that his heart had well-nigh burst.
     They then took leave of the king, and got into the coach with eight horses, and all set out, full of joy and merriment, for the prince's kingdom, which they reached safely; and there they lived happily a great many years.

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