The Princess and the Pea
“The Princess and the Pea“ story gives us two messages; the first one is that the first look can sometimes be deceiving and far away from the truth, like a true princess with a very bad look in the rain, and the second one is that we must make our tests and question the truth.
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 traveled all over the world to find one but nowhere
could he get what he wanted? There are enough princesses, 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 I 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 the front of the gate, but good gracious, what a sight the rain in the wind had made
her look the water round 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 bedroom took all the bedding off the bedstead and laid a pea on the bottom
then she took 20 mattresses and laid them on the pea and then 20 Eiderdown beds
on the 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, and 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 eiderdown 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 into the museum where it may still
be seen if no one has stolen it there that is a true story.
The End