No one but a real princess could be so delicate. Now they saw that she was a real princess, for through the twenty mattresses and the twenty eider-down beds she had felt the pea. I lay upon something hard, so that I am black and blue all over. "I scarcely closed my eyes all night long. In the morning she was asked how she had slept. On this the Princess had to lie all night. But she said nothing, only went into the bed-chamber, took all the bedding off, and put a pea on the flooring of the bedstead then she took twenty mattresses and laid them upon the pea, and then twenty eider-down beds upon the mattresses. "Yes, we will soon find that out," thought the old Queen. But, mercy! how she looked, from the rain and the rough weather! The water ran down from her hair and her clothes it ran in at the points of her shoes, and out at the heels and yet she declared that she was a real princess. It was a Princess who stood outside the gate. It lightened and thundered, the rain streamed down it was quite fearful! Then there was a knocking at the town gate, and the old King went out to open it. So he came home again, and was quite sad for he wished so much, to have a real princess. There were princesses enough, but whether they were real princesses he could not quite make out: there was always something that did not seem quite right. So he traveled about, all through the world, to find a real one, but everywhere there was something in the way. THERE was once a Prince who wanted to marry a princess but she was to be a real princess.
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