The older daughter did not know that it was the fairy, so she said:
"Do you think that I came to the spring to get water just for you, or that I brought this fine silver pitcher so that you could drink from it? Drink from the spring if you wish."
"You are not very polite, I think," said the fairy, "but I will give you a gift, and this shall be the gift: With every word that you speak, either a snake or a toad shall fall from your mouth."
When the older daughter went back to the house, her mother called out, "Well, daughter?"
"Well, mother," said the girl, and as she spoke, a snake and a toad fell out of her mouth.
"What!" cried the mother. "Your sister has done all this, but she shall pay for it!"
With that, the mother took a stick and ran after the younger daughter.
The poor child ran away from her and hid in the woods.
The prince of that country had been hunting and happened to pass through those woods on his way home.