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 Source: Princess-and-pea21
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 andclothes; it ran down to the top 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. However, she said nothing
and 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. This was where the princess had to lie all night. In the
morning she was asked how she had slept.
"Oh, very badly!” she said. “I have hardly 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 to be
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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The Princess and the Pea