An Interesting Story For Kids - The Mother Frost
This is an interesting story about a mother and her two daughters. Read on to find out more.
Once
upon a time, there lived a widow who had two daughters. One was very beautiful
and hardworking while the other was very lazy and ugly. The widow treated the
ugly one with great care, she would give all she asks and wouldn’t let her do
any chores in the house. This was because the ugly child was her daughter. Her
stepdaughter, the beautiful maiden was made to do all the chores in the house,
she would wash, clean, fetch water, and cook. She was made to sleep in the
kitchen.
One
day, she went to the well to fetch water. It wasn’t an easy task to draw water
from the well, she would spin so much that blood ran from her fingers. On this
day, she had tried to wash the spindle which was covered with her blood but
unfortunately, the spindle fell into the well. Her stepmother scolded her and
sent her back to well to get the spindle.
“Since
you let the spindle fall in, you must get it out,” she said.
The
beautiful maiden went back to the well confused and not knowing what to do to
get the spindle out. When she got to the well, confused about what to do, she
jumped into the well. She was unconscious when she landed at the bottom of the
well. When she regained her consciousness, she realized that she was in a very
beautiful meadow, with the sun shining beautifully and with so many beautiful
flowers blooming around her.
Surprised,
she decided to take a walk, soon she came to a baker’s house where the oven was
filled with bread which called out to her, “bring me out or I shall be burnt. I
have been in the oven for so long.” So she brought all the loaves of bread out
of the oven using the bread pan. She left the baker’s house and came to an
apple tree with ripe fruits. The apple tree cried, “shake me, all my fruits are
ripe and ready to drop.” She shook the apple tree and all the fruits fell to
the ground. She packed the up in a heap and went further into the meadow.
She
came to a cottage where an old woman lived. She was afraid of the old woman
because she had large teeth and it frightened her. The old woman asked her in,
that she wasn’t going to hurt. “Stay with me, my child. If you will put all
things in my house in order, then shall everything go well with you. Only, you
must hit my bed vigorously so that the feathers fly like snow upon the earth. I
am old mother frost” she said to the beautiful maiden. The thing pleased the
beautiful maiden and she took up the service, she would arrange everything in
the cottage and shake the bed vigorously until the feathers flew like snow upon
the earth. Everything she wanted was provided for her by the old woman.
Soon,
she got homesick and didn’t quite understand why because she had all she wanted
here. “I must go now,” she said to the old woman.
“Very
well then, you have served me very well in your time here. I will take you up
again to your home,” she said.
She
took the maiden by the hand and led her through a great door which she undid
and allowed the maiden to go through. She gave the maiden a lot of gifts and
showered her with so much gold that some stuck to her body. “This is for the
service you rendered to me,” she said. She gave the maiden the spindle she had
come looking for and bid her farewell. She then shut the door.
Once
the door shut close, the maiden realized she upon the earth. She was soon in
her house, when she approached the court of her house, the cock that sat upon
the house called out, “cock-a-doodle-doo! Our golden maiden comes home again.”
Then she went into the house and narrated her story of how she had come by so
much wealth to her stepmother and stepsister.
After
telling hearing the story, her stepmother urged her daughter to try her luck.
She made her sit by the well and spin till her hands became bloody. She was
very lazy. So she took a thorn and pricked her finger with it. When blood came
out, she threw the spindle into the well and jumped in after it.
Like
her sister, she soon came to the place where she found the loaves of bread in
the oven and when they cried out to her to help them, she refused. “I don’t
want to get my clothes stained,” she said.
She
wouldn’t shake the apple tree as well because she felt they would fall on her
head and hurt her.
When
she got to the old mother frost’s cottage, she wasn’t afraid because she has
been forewarned. She indulged herself in her service. The first day, she was very
industrious. She did all she was told because she thought the old woman would
give her gifts the next day. When she didn’t get her gifts the next day, she
stayed idle. It continued until the day she decided to leave.
The
old woman led her by the hand to the great door, when she went through it,
instead of receiving gifts and a gold shower, she was showered with dirt and
pitch. The pitch and dirt stuck to her body.
“This
is the reward for your service,” the mother frost said to her and shut the
door. She went home covered in dirt and pitch. The cock that sat upon the house
saw her and cried, “cock-a-doodle-doo! Our dirty maiden comes home again.”
The
pitch and dirt stuck to her body and would not go away as long as she lived.
It
is very difficult to make in life being lazy. Being industrious can pave the
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