童话故事英文版：How to Tell a True Princess

2021年1月26日发(作者：barbaric)
童话故事英文版：
How to Tell a True Princess



There was once upon a time a Prince who wanted to marry a
Princess, but she must be a true Princess. So he travelled
through the whole world to find one, but there was always
something against each. There were plenty of Princesses, but
he could not find out if they were true Princesses. In every
case there was some little defect, which showed the genuine
article was not yet found. So he came home again in very low
spirits, for he had wanted very much to have a true Princess.
One night there was a dreadful storm; it thundered and
lightened and the rain streamed down in torrents. It was
fearful! There was a knocking heard at the Palace gate, and
the old King went to open it.



There stood a Princess outside the gate; but oh, in what
a sad plight she was from the rain and the storm! The water
was running down from her hair and her dress into the points
of her shoes and out at the heels again. And yet she said she
was a true Princess!



'Well, we shall soon find that!' thought the old Queen.
But she said nothing, and went into the sleeping-room, took
off all the bed-clothes, and laid a pea on the bottom of the
bed. Then she put twenty mattresses on top of the pea, and
twenty eider-down quilts on the top of the mattresses. And
this was the bed in which the Princess was to sleep.



The next morning she was asked how she had slept.



'Oh, very badly!' said the Princess. 'I scarcely closed
my eyes all night! I am sure I don't know what was in the bed.