The Princess And The Pea
There was once upon a time a Prince who wanted
to marry a Princess, but she must be a true Princess. So he traveled through
the whole world to find one, but there was always something against each. There
were plenty of Princesses, but he could not find out if they were true
Princesses. In every case there was some little defect, which showed the
genuine article was not yet found. So he came home again in very low spirits,
for he had wanted very much to have a true Princess. One night there was a
dreadful storm; it thundered and lightened and the rain streamed down in torrents.
It was fearful! There was a knocking heard at the Palace gate, and the old King
went to open it.
There stood a Princess outside the gate; but
oh, in what a sad plight she was from the rain and the storm! The water was
running down from her hair and her dress into the points of her shoes and out
at the heels again. And yet she said she was a true Princess!
‘Well, we shall soon find that!’ thought the
old Queen. But she said nothing, and went into the sleeping-room, took off all
the bed-clothes, and laid a pea on the bottom of the bed. Then she put twenty
mattresses on top of the pea, and twenty eider-down quilts on the top of the
mattresses. And this was the bed in which the Princess was to sleep.
The next morning she was asked how she had
slept.
‘Oh, very badly!’ said the Princess. ‘I
scarcely closed my eyes all night! I am sure I don’t know what was in the bed.
I laid on something so hard that my whole body is black and blue. It is
dreadful!’
Now they perceived that she was a true
Princess, because she had felt the pea through the twenty mattresses and the
twenty eider-down quilts.
No one but a true Princess could be so
sensitive. So the Prince married her, for now he knew
that at last he had got hold of a true Princess. And the pea was put into the
Royal Museum, where it is still to be seen if no one has stolen it.
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