The Princess on the Pea

 

Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess; but it should be a real princess. So he traveled all over the World around to find one, but everywhere there was something in the way. There were enough princesses, but whether they were real princesses, he could not bring out. There was always something that was not quite right. So he came home again and was very sad, because he wanted to have a real princess so much.
One evening, a terrible Thunderstorm It was thundering and lightning, the rain was pouring down, it was terrible! Then there was a knock at the city gate, and the old king went to open it.

It was a princess standing outside the gate. But, oh God, how she looked from the rain and the bad weather! The water ran down from her hair and clothes; it ran into the beaks of her shoes and out again at the heels. And yet she said that she was a real princess.
"Yeah, we'll find out!" thought the old queen. But she said nothing, went into the bedchamber, took down all the beds and put a pea on the bottom of the bedstead; then she took twenty mattresses and put them on the pea, and then twenty more eiderdown beds on top of the mattresses.
The princess had to lie there all night. In the morning she was asked how she had slept.

"O, frightfully bad!" said the princess. "I didn't close my eyes almost the whole night! God knows what has been there in the bed! I was lying on something hard, so that I am brown and blue all over my body! It's quite horrible!"
Now they saw that it was a real princess, because she had felt the pea through the twenty mattresses and the twenty eiderdown beds. Nobody could be so sensitive as a real princess.

Then the prince took her as his wife, for now he knew that he possessed a real princess; and the pea came to the art chamber, where it can still be seen if no one has stolen it.

Youh, that was a true story.

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