Books behind pictures

Once upon a time there was a widower, who lived with his three daughters. One day, one of his daughters said to him:
- Father, could you go to the fountain and fetch me a jug of water? There is not a drop left in the house, and I’ll need some for the stew.
- Very well my child, answered the old man.
And he took a jug and went to the fountain. as he was leaning over the water, filling up his jug, a toad sprang up and jumped at his face and clutched at it so tightly that all his efforts to get rid of it were useless.
- You will only be able to get me off your face if you promise to give me one of your daughters for a wife! Said the toad.
He left his jug by the fountain, and ran to the house.
- O God! what happened to you, father? his daughters exclaimed, when they saw him in such a state.
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