TRIBUNJATENG.COM - There was, once upon a time, a prince who wanted to marry a princess, but she must be a true princess.

So he travelled through the whole world to find one, but there was always something against each.

There were plenty of princesses, but he could not find out if they were true princesses.

In every case there was some little defect, which showed the genuine article was not yet found.

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So he came home again in very low spirits, for he had wanted very much to have a true princess.

One night there was a dreadful storm; it thundered and lightened, and the rain streamed down in torrents.

It was fearful! There was a knocking heard at the palace gate, and the old king went to open it.

There stood a princess outside the gate; but oh! What a sad plight she was in from the rain and the storm!

The water was running down from her hair and her dress into the points of her shoes and out at the heels again.

Yet she said she was a true princess.

"Well, we shall soon find that out!" Thought the old queen.

But she said nothing, and went into the sleeping room, took off all the bedclothes, and laid a pea on the bottom of the bed.

Then she put twenty mattresses on top of the pea, and twenty eiderdown quilts on the top of the mattresses.

This was the bed in which the princess was to sleep.

The next morning she was asked how she had slept.