介绍:
Once upon a time, there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess.
She had to be a real princess, though.
The prince looked all over the world, but he couldn’t find who he wanted.
Many young women said they were princesses, but were they really?
It was hard to know for sure!
There was always something about them that did not seem quite right.
So the prince came home again and was sad.
He still wanted to find a real princess to marry.
One evening, there was a terrible storm with thunder and lighting.
The rain came down hard as the wind howled.
Suddenly, someone knocked at the castle door.
A young woman stood outside.
She said she was a princess who had been caught in the storm.
But what a sight the rain and wind had made her look!
The water ran down from her hair and clothes.
It ran into the toes of her shoes until they overflowed.
Still, she said that she was a real princess.
We’ll soon find out! Thought the old queen.
She went into the bedroom and stripped all the bedding off the bed.
She took a pea and laid it on the bare bedframe.
The she took twenty mattresses（床垫）and placed them on top of the pea.
Finally, she put twenty blankets stuffed with goose feathers （鹅毛）on top.
On this bed, the princess had to lie all night.
In the morning, the queen asked her how she had slept.
“Oh, very badly! I barely closed my eyes all night.” Said the princess.
“Goodness knows what it was, but I was lying on something hard,” she added.
“I am black and blue all over my body – it was horrible!” she cried.
Now they knew that she was a real princess.
She had felt the pea right through twenty mattresses and twenty goose-feather blankets.
Nobody but a real princess could be that sensitive.
So the prince married her, for now he knew that she was a real princess.
The pea was given to a museum.
You can still see it there, if you like.
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