And there the little girl sat in the forest all alone, shivering with the cold. When lo and behold! there was old King Frost coming towards her, and he said: “Hullo, little girl, are you warm?” And she answered: “Yes, King Frost.” Then he blew a cold breath on to her and again asked: “Are you warm, little girl?” And she answered: “Yes, King Frost!” Then he began to make it still colder; he made the branches crack, and covered them with hoar-frost, and let loose such cold, that you could hear the air creaking.
Then he asked her again: “Well, little girl, are you warm now?” And she answered: “Yes, King Frost!”
And when he saw that she was a good girl, he felt sorry for her. So he put on her a fur coat, with trimmings of beaver, and made her warm, and said to her: “You're a good girl, and so I'll stop. Here's a little present for you from King Frost.”
And he brought her a trunk full of all sorts of things, silver and gold, and bright-coloured stones.
