When the King came back, and wanted to talk to his wife a little, the old woman cried, "Stop, stop! she is sleeping nicely; she must be kept quiet to day." The King dreamt of nothing wrong, and came again the next morning; and as he spoke to his wife, and she answered him, there jumped each time out of her mouth a toad instead of the piece of gold as heretofore. Then he asked why that should be, and the old woman said it was because of her great weakness, and that it would pass away.

But in the night, the boy who slept in the kitchen saw how something in the likeness of a duck swam up the gutter, and said,

"My King, what mak'st thou?
Sleepest thou, or wak'st thou?"

But there was no answer. Then it said,

"What cheer my two guests keep they?"

So the kitchen-boy answered,

"In bed all soundly sleep they."

It asked again,

"And my little baby, how does he?"

And he answered,

"He sleeps in his cradle quietly."

当国王回到房间，想和他的妻子说话的时候，老婆子叫了起来："嘘，唬，不要打搅她，她现在正在发汗。今天不要打搅她。"国王丝毫没有怀疑，一直等到第二天早晨才过来。 他和妻子说话，谁知她刚开口，嘴里就跳出来一只癞蛤蟆，而不像从前那样掉出金子来。 国王问这是怎么回事，老婆子便说这是发汗发出来的，很快就会好的。但是当天夜里，王宫里的小帮工看见一只鸭子从下水道里游了出来，而且听见它说：
"国王，你在做什么？
你是睡着了还是醒着？ "
看到小帮工没有回答，它又说：
"我的两位客人在做什么？"
小帮工说：
"她们睡熟了。"
鸭子又问：
"我的小宝宝在做什么？"
小帮工回答：
"他在摇篮里睡得好好的。"