` Oh , very badly ! ' said the Princess . ' I scarcely closed my eyes all night ! I am sure I do n't know what was in the bed . I laid on something so hard that my whole body is black and blue . It is dreadful ! ' Now they perceived that she was a true Princess , because she had felt the pea through the twenty mattresses and the twenty eider-down quilts . No one but a true Princess could be so sensitive . So the Prince married her , for now he knew that at last he had got hold of a true Princess . And the pea was put into the Royal Museum , where it is still to be seen if no one has stolen it . Now this is a true story . THE BLUE MOUNTAINS There were once a Scotsman and an Englishman and an Irishman serving in the army together , who took it into their heads to run away on the first opportunity they could get . The chance came and they took it . They went on travelling for two days through a great forest , without food or drink , and without coming across a single house , and every night they had to climb up into the trees through fear of the wild beasts that were in the wood . On the second morning the Scotsman saw from the top of his tree a great castle far away . He said to himself that he would certainly die if he stayed in the forest without anything to eat but the roots of grass , which would not keep him alive very long . As soon , then , as he got down out of the tree he set off towards the castle , without so much as telling his companions that he had seen it at all ; perhaps the hunger and want they had suffered had changed their nature so much that the one did not care what became of the other if he could save himself . He travelled on most of the day , so that it was quite late when he reached the castle , and to his great disappointment found nothing but closed doors and no smoke rising from the chimneys . He thought there was nothing for it but to die after all , and had lain down beside the wall , when he heard a window being opened high above him . At this he looked up , and saw the most beautiful woman he had ever set eyes on .
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