{"collection":"myth-cosmogony","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_16905/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_16905","id":"gutenberg_16905","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16905","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Adventure","Category: Children & Young Adult Reading","Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore","Fairy tales"],"text":"Produced by Juliet Sutherland, David Garcia and the Online\nDistributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net\n\n\n\n\n\n[Transcriber's Note: Mosnar Yendis is an anagram of Sidney Ransom,\nthe author. Best known for advertising posters, this children's book is\na rare example of his work outside that genre. As of this writing, known\ncopies include two in the Library of Congress offsite storage, one in\nthe British Library, one in the National Library of Scotland, a small\nhandful of others in the wild, and the one used to create this version.\nThe NLS copy was used as a reference to verify the sequence and presence\nof all pages.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration: Front cover.]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n                                    THE\n                               Great Red Frog\n\n                              TOLD AND PICTURED\n                                     BY\n                                  M. Yendis\n\n\n                                METHUEN & CO.\n                            36 ESSEX STREET W.C.\n                                   LONDON\n\n                                    1903\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMany years ago, and many miles away, there was a little Prince who was\nexactly like the Lord Chamberlain's son, and sometimes even the artful\nold Chamberlain himself could not tell one from the other.\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\nWhen the Prince became King of Noware, they were still alike as two\npeas, and one day, when they were playing in the garden, a Magic Bush\nsuddenly grew up behind the King. At the same moment the Chamberlain's\nSon suddenly lost his temper,\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\nAnd pushed his royal play-fellow into the Magic Bush. The little\nKing was immediately changed into a strange red Frog, which ran\naway croaking fearfully.\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\nThe wicked Chamberlain seemed quite pleased when his son told him what\nhad happened,\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\nAnd, placing a crown on his own son's head, he said, \"Your Majesty has\nmade a mistake; how can the King be a Frog when I see your Majesty\nbefore me?\" And they both smiled artfully.\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\nThe Chamberlain pretended to weep, and told everybody that his Son had\nbeen turned into a Frog.\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\nSo the false King sat on the throne and grew up to be very bad and ugly,\nbecause he was always afraid the real King would return. He heard of\nthe wonderful King of the Frogs, who carried off cattle on his back,\nand every time he saw a Frog he shivered all over.\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\nHe was going to marry the Princess of Sumwareruther, and they expected\nher day after day, but she did not come. At last they became quite\nanxious, when one morning a little Blue Dwarf arrived at the Palace.\nHe was quite breathless.\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\nHis name was Omolo, and he told the King that when he and the young\nPrincess (he was the Princess's page) were about twenty miles from the\nPalace, a Great Red Frog suddenly confronted them, put the soldiers to\nflight, and carried off the Princess.\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\nThe King flew into a rage, and rushed out of the room declaring that\nhe would go to war with the King of the Frogs.\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\nSo the Chamberlain made a speech to the Army.\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\nBut the Army was so afraid of the Great Red Frog that they were taken\nill and could not go.\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\nAnd without saying a word to anyone, little Omolo climbed on to a\nStork's back--\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\nAnd flew off to save the Princess.\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\nNow the Stork had a friend, a very wise Owl, to whom they went for\nadvice. The Owl put on his glasses and a very grave voice. He told Omolo\nwhere he would find a Magic Sword, and also where the King of the Frogs\nlived.\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\nThen, after thanking the Owl, they went on again and finally found the\nKing Frog at home; but Omolo was rather surprised to see the Princess\ntaking afternoon tea with him, and not frightened in the least.\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\nWhen she saw Omolo, she clapped her hands with delight, but before she\ncould say a word, he attacked the King of the Frogs with his Magic Sword\nand wounded him. Directly the Sword touched the Frog,--\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\nHe changed into a splendid King with a Ruby Crown. The Princess was\ndelighted, for, as of course you have guessed, he was the real King\nof Noware.\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\nHe thanked Omolo graciously, and, taking the Magic Sword, he changed\nthe little Blue Dwarf into a handsome fellow, and made him an Earl on\nthe spot, and gave him command of the Army.\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\nAnd being very pleased with the kind Stork he changed him into a man,\nand made him his Chancellor. He was a bit storky at first, but he\ngradually improved.\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\nThoughtfully leaving the King and the Princess to talk things over, Earl\nOmolo went out and caught a Robin, changed it into a smart soldier, and\nsent him off recruiting. Very shortly there were thousands of Robins\ntwittering to be enlisted.\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\nThey marched back to the Palace with a large army, and everybody was\npleased to see them, except the false King and the Chamberlain, who\nbegged the King to spare their lives, and as he was very happy he did\nso. But they were justly punished.\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\nSo the King married the Princess, and they had a magnificent Coronation,\nand as everybody was happy at the end--I hope you will be happy at\n\n                                THE END.\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration: Back Cover.]","title":"The Great Red Frog","tradition":"myth-cosmogony","translated_text":null,"word_count":867}