By Andrew Lang
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(Part 3)

?What a blind, old fool you must be to ask such a question!? she answered angrily. ?Can?t you see that my hands and feet are nearly frozen??

Then King Frost jumped down in front of her. As he questioned her, he received only rude, rough words in reply. At last he got very angry and cracked his fingers. He shut his mouth tightly and froze her to death.

But in the hut her mother was waiting for her return. As she grew impatient, she said to her husband, ...