They were very lucky and had a very clever son whose name was Prince Yarick; he was very good with numbers and always had lots of good ideas of how to spend the money that his parents had.
Like the time that he bought one thousand money boxes and gave them to the poor people so that they could save their money up to pay their taxes to the king. And the time that he paid all of the criminals one hundred pounds each to be good, then he let them out of prison so that they didn’t need to look after them any more and saved lots of money that they would have spent on food.
Yes Prince Yarick was a clever prince.
One day Prince Yarick decided to go for a walk outside the castle and see what was happening in the kingdom, he walked until he came across a large fish pond just outside the village, he sat down on the grass to have a rest when he noticed a little green frog sitting on a log crying her eye’s out.
“Hello little frog” Yarick called out” what’s the matter with you?” he asked as the little frog looked up at him sniffing and wiping her eyes.
The little frog replied “Oh it’s terrible and awful” and started to cry even more.
Prince Yarick was very moved by the little frog and asked “Is there anything that I can do to make you happy and stop crying?” The little frog then explained that she was really a very beautiful young princess from the kingdom down the road, and that the nasty witch Stinky breath had cast a terrible magic spell on her and it had turned her into a little green frog.
“You are a very pretty little frog” Yarick said hoping to make her feel much better but it just made her cry even more, then she managed to calm down a little and explained that the nasty spell could only be broken if she was kissed by a real prince who was very clever. “well I am a real prince” said Yarick “but I really don’t think it would be very nice to kiss a little green frog, princess or not” he added, and with this the little green frog started to cry even more than she had before and this was making Yarick feel rather sad, so he decided that he would help out the little green frog as long as she promised not to tell anyone about it.
“I promise” cried the little green frog “cross my heart and hope to die” she added and then she hopped over to Yarick and puckered up her little green lip’s ready for the big kiss.
Yarick wiped his lips and bent down slowly to kiss the little green frog, as his lips touched hers he noticed that there was a great big flash of light and then it disappeared, he opened his eye’s and saw that the little green frog was now still a little green frog.
“I am sorry” said Yarick “but I am afraid the spell hasn’t been broken, you are still a very pretty little green frog” he added. “Never mind” replied the little frog “we did try” she said and said goodbye to Yarick, she then jumped into the pond.
Yarick decided that it was now getting late and was perhaps time to go home and he hopped off up the road towards the castle, catching big juicy flies with his long sticky tongue and calling out his name as he went “Yarick Yarick Yarick!”