The yellow fairy book . nd that! thought the old Queen. Butshe said nothing, and went into the sleeping-room, took off ah1 thebed-clothes, and laid a pea on the bottom of the bed. Then she puttwenty mattresses on top of the pea, and twenty eider-down quiltsoil the top of the mattresses. And this was the bed in which thePrincess was to sleep. The next morning she was asked how she had slept. Oh, very badly ! said the Princess. I scarcely closed myeyes all night! I am sure I dont know what was in the bed. Ilay on something so hard that my whole body is black and is dreadful! Now they per
The yellow fairy book . nd that! thought the old Queen. Butshe said nothing, and went into the sleeping-room, took off ah1 thebed-clothes, and laid a pea on the bottom of the bed. Then she puttwenty mattresses on top of the pea, and twenty eider-down quiltsoil the top of the mattresses. And this was the bed in which thePrincess was to sleep. The next morning she was asked how she had slept. Oh, very badly ! said the Princess. I scarcely closed myeyes all night! I am sure I dont know what was in the bed. Ilay on something so hard that my whole body is black and is dreadful! Now they perceived that she was a true Princess, because shehad felt the pea through the twenty mattresses and the twentyeider-down quilts. No one but a true Princess could be so sensitive. HOW TO TELL A TRUE PRINCESS 255 So the Prince married her, for now he knew that fit last he hadgot hold of a true Princess. And the pea was put into the lloyalMuseum, where it is still to be seen if no one has stolon it. Nowthis is a true 256 THE BLUE MOUNTAINS THERE were once a Scotsman and an Englishman and anIrishman serving in the army together, who took it into theirheads to run away on the first opportunity they could get. Thechance came and they took it. They went on travelling for twodays through a great forest, without food or drink, and withoutcoming across a single house, and every night they had to climb upinto the trees through fear of the wild beasts that were in thewood. On the second morning the Scotsman saw from the top ofhis tree a great castle far away. He said to himself that he wouldcertainly die if he stayed in the forest without anything to eat butthe roots of grass, which would not keep him alive very long. Assoon, then, as he got down out of the tree he set off towards thecastle, without so much as telling his companions that he had seenit at all; perhaps the hunger and want they had suffered hadchanged their nature so much that the one did not care whatbecame of the oth
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