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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 real princess.He travelled all over the world to find one, but 1 could he get what he wanted.There were enough princesses, but it was 2 to find out whether they were real ones.There was always something about them that was not as it 3 be.So he came home again and was sad, 4 he would have liked very much to have a real princess.
One evening a terrible storm 5 ; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents.Suddenly a knocking was 6 at the city gate, and the old king went to open it.It was a princess 7 out there in front of the gate.But, good gracious! what 8 the rain and the wind had 9 her look.The water ran down from her hair and clothes; it ran down into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels. 10 she said that she was a real princess.
“Well, we'll soon find that out.” 11 the old queen.But she said nothing, went into the bed-room, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and 12 a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses(床垫)and put 13 on the pea, and then twenty eiderdown beds(鸭绒被)on top of the 14 .
On this the princess had to lie all night.In the morning she was asked 15 she had slept.
“Oh, very badly!”said she.“I have 16 closed my eyes all night.Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard, 17 I am black and blue all over my body.It's horrible!”
Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had 18 the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty eider-down beds.
Nobody but a real princess could be as 19 as that.
So the prince took her for his wife, for now he knew that he had a real princess.And the pea was put in the museum, 20 it may still be seen, if no one has stolen it.
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