An Interesting Story For Kids - The Mother Frost
This is an interesting story about a mother and her two daughters.
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An Interesting Story For Kids - The Mother Frost
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
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