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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.



"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.
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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.
There, that is a true story.
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.




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This book was created and published on StoryJumper™
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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.

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