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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

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real princess. He traveled all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted.

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There were princesses enough, but it was difficult to find out whether they were real ones.

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There was always something about them that was not as it should be. So he came home again,

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and was sad for he would have liked very much to have a real princess. One evening a terrible storm

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came on. There was thunder and lightning and the rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly a knocking

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was heard at the city gate. The old king went to open it. It was a princess standing out there in

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front of the gate. But good gracious, what a sight the rain and the wind had made her look.

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The water ran down from her hair and clothes. It ran down into the toes of her shoes and out again

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at the heels. And yet she said that she was a real princess. Well, we'll soon find that out,

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thought the old queen, but she said nothing, went into the bedroom, took all the bedding off the

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bedstead, and laid a pea on the bottom. Then she took twenty mattresses, and laid them on the pea,

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and then twenty either-down beds on top of the mattresses. On this the princess had to lie

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all night. In the morning she was asked how she had slept. Oh, very badly, she said. I have scarcely

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closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard

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so that I am black and blue all over my body. It's horrible. Now they knew that she was a real

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princess because she had felt the pee right through the 20 mattresses and the 20 eater down

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beds. Nobody but a real princess could be as sensitive as that. So the prince took her for

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his wife. For now he knew that he had a real princess and the pee was put in the museum

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where it may still be seen if no one has stolen it. There, that is a true story.

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