"What are these?" her mother asked astonished. "Are there really pearls and diamonds falling from your mouth? What happend to you, my daughter?" This was the first time she had ever called her “daughter”.
The girl told her what had happened, scattering precious diamonds, flowers and pearls, as she spoke.
"I must send your sister there, too,” her mother said. “Come here, Fanchon. You must go to the spring right away and give water to drink to an old woman and she will make precious stones fall from your mouth.”
"You send me to the spring?" replied the arrogant girl, frowning.
"Yes, I do, hurry up,” her mother urged her.
She obeyed at last, though unwillingly. When she finally arrived at the spring, a beautiful lady, very well dressed came out of the woods, instead of an old woman as her mother had told her and she asked for a drink. This was the same fairy who had appeared to her sister, but she was disguised as a princess this time in order to see how far this girl's bad manners would go.
"I’m sorry, but I am not your servant, so help yourself,” the rude girl said. “I am not going to dirty myself, just to give madam some water.”
"Your heart is already dirty," replied the fairy, not angry, though. "It’s your choice! In return for your rudeness and wicked nature I grant that for every word you speak a snake or a toad shall drop out of your mouth."
