The princess on a pea

There lived-was the prince, he wished to take to itself(himself) as wife the princess, yes only the present princess. Here it also has gone round all light, searched such, yes everywhere there was something not that: of princesses it was full, and whether here the presents they, he could not distinguish it up to the end in any way, always with them there was something not as it should be. Here both it was turned back home and has very much grieved: so it would like the present princess.

Somehow by the evening the terrible storm was played; the lightning sparkled, the thunder rattled, the rain poured as from a bucket, horror that the such! And suddenly in city gate have knocked, and the old king has gone to open.

Gate had a princess. My God, to whom it was similar from a rain and a bad weather! Water flew down from its hair and a dress, flew down directly in socks of boots and followed from heels, and she said, that it the present princess.

"Well, we find out it!" - the old queen has thought, but has told nothing, and has gone to a bedchamber, has removed all mattresses and pillows from a bed and has put a pea on boards, and then took twenty mattresses and has put them on a pea, and on mattresses twenty more feather-beds from eider down. v

On this bed also have laid on night the princess.

In the morning she has asked, as to it was slept.

- Ah, awfully badly! - the princess answered. - I all night long have not closed eyes. The god knows, that there at me was in bed! I laid on something firm, and now at me all body in bruises! It simply horror that the such!

Here all have understood, that before them the present princess. Still, she has felt a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty feather-beds from eider down! The present princess can be such gentle only.

The prince has taken her as wife, after all now he knew, that a beret for itself(himself) the present princess, and the pea has got in кунсткамеру where it is possible to see it and until now if only anybody has not pulled down it.

Know, that it is truthful history!