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Once upon a time there
lived a young princess bear cub named Princess Bearetta. One day,
Princess Bearetta was walking in the garden, as all princesses do,
when a voice spoke, "Princess, will you be my
friend?"
Princess Bearetta heard
this and turned around to see whom it was who was speaking, but
there was no one there. Princess Bearetta then began looking for
the person who wanted to be her friend. She looked in the trees.
She looked in the bushes. She looked down the path, but she
didn't see anyone.
The voice said again,
"Princess, will you be my friend?" She searched
again, and after a long search she finally said crossly,
"Where are you?" Princess Bearetta liked jokes a lot,
but this was becoming very tiresome. Once again the voice said,
"Princess, will you be my friend?" The Princess
smiled and said, "Why, of course. Now show
yourself!"
"I'm
right here, Princess," said the voice. The only thing in
sight was a green, warty frog. "I want to be your
friend," it said. Princess Bearetta shrieked,
"EEK!!" She gathered up her skirts and ran as fast as
she could. It wasn't that she didn't like talking to
other animals, but a frog? SLIMY!!
Princess Bearetta
forgot about the frog until dinnertime. The Princess and her
father, the King, and mother, the Queen, and her brothers and
sisters were sitting around the grand table when a voice spoke,
"Princess, why did you run away? I thought we were
friends."
She tried to pretend
that she hadn't heard the frog. Everyone else looked around.
All that the Princess wanted to do was squish the frog flat. The
frog called again and the King said, "Who is
talking?" The frog leaped up on the table next to the
King.
The frog began to tell
the King what had happened in the garden that day. "Is it
true, Princess Bearetta?" asked the King. Princess Bearetta
nodded her head sheepishly. She didn't dare lie to her
father. "Then you will be his friend," the King said.
"I didn't know he was a frog. He tricked me,"
Said Princess Bearetta. "I see no trick in this,"
said the King. "You will be friends."
The Princess brought
the frog into her room and shoved him into her dresser drawer. The
frog started hopping so much that everything on her dresser fell
off. "I guess that is not such a good place for a
frog." she said. Days went by and Princess Bearetta never
talked to the frog, but she did give the frog a name. She named him
Harvey. More weeks went by and Princess Bearetta began to take a
liking to Harvey.
Princess Bearetta began
taking Harvey on walks and introducing him to her friends. Harvey
ended up being really witty, funny, charming and bright, and told
funny Froggy stories. One day Harvey asked, "Princess, will
you kiss me?"
Princess Bearetta was
shocked. She didn't want to kiss him. Besides, she might get
warts on her lips. Double yuck!! "Please, Princess,"
asked Harvey again. She refused. Days went by and every evening the
frog would ask Princess Bearetta if she would kiss him. She would
refuse and he would sigh deeply and lie down on his lily pad in his
basin of water to sleep.
She always felt bad
because he would sigh so sadly, and after all, he had become her
best friend. Finally one evening Harvey asked Princess Bearetta to
sit down so that they could talk. When the Princess sat down,
Harvey began to talk. He said, "Princess, if you kiss me a
big surprise will happen."
The Princess thought,
"I like surprises, but I don't want to get
warts." "Don't worry about the warts,"
Harvey said, "Please kiss me!" Princess Bearetta
shrugged her shoulders and said, "Okay." She gave him
a big kiss, "SMACK!" The frog smiled and the Princess
went up in a puff of smoke. There beside Harvey sat Princess
Bearetta, the warty frog.
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