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THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA
Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to
marry a princess; but she would have to be a real princess. He travelled all
over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. There were
princesses enough, but it was difficult to find out whether they were real
ones. There was always something about them that was not as it should be. So he
came home again and was sad, for he would have liked very much to have a real
princess.
One evening a terrible storm came on; there was
thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly a
knocking was heard at the city gate, and the old king went to open it.
It was a princess standing out there in front of the
gate. But, good gracious! what a sight the rain and the wind had made her look.
The water ran down from her hair and clothes; it ran down into the toes of her
shoes and out again at the heels. And yet she said that she was a real
princess.
Well, we'll soon find that out, thought the old queen.
But she said nothing, went into the bed-room, took all the bedding off the
bedstead, and laid a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and
laid them on the pea, and then twenty eider-down beds on top of the mattresses.
On this the princess had to lie all night. In the
morning she was asked how she had slept.
"Oh, very badly!" said she. "I have
scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I
was lying on something hard, so that I am black and blue all over my body. It's
horrible!"
Now they knew that she was a real princess because she
had felt the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty eider-down
beds.
Nobody but a real princess could be as sensitive as
that.
So the prince took her for his wife, for now he knew
that he had a real princess; and the pea was put in the museum, where it may
still be seen, if no one has stolen it.
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