You know well he would still be unhappy . Only a good man can be really contented . '' `` You are quite right , '' answered the Fairy ; `` but it is not in my power to make Prince Darling a good man unless he will help me ; he must himself try hard to become good , I can only promise to give him good advice , to scold him for his faults , and to punish him if he will not correct and punish himself . '' The good King was quite satisfied with this promise ; and very soon afterward he died . Prince Darling was very sorry , for he loved his father with all his heart , and he would willingly have given all his kingdoms and all his treasures of gold and silver if they could have kept the good King with him . Two days afterward , when the Prince had gone to bed , the Fairy suddenly appeared to him and said : `` I promised your father that I would be your friend , and to keep my word I have come to bring you a present . '' At the same time she put a little gold ring upon his finger . `` Take great care of this ring , '' she said : `` it is more precious than diamonds ; every time you do a bad deed it will prick your finger , but if , in spite of its pricking , you go on in your own evil way , you will lose my friendship , and I shall become your enemy . '' So saying , the Fairy disappeared , leaving Prince Darling very much astonished . For some time he behaved so well that the ring never pricked him , and that made him so contented that his subjects called him Prince Darling the Happy . One day , however , he went out hunting , but could get no sport , which put him in a very bad temper ; it seemed to him as he rode along that his ring was pressing into his finger , but as it did not prick him he did not heed it . When he got home and went to his own room , his little dog Bibi ran to meet him , jumping round him with pleasure . `` Get away ! '' said the Prince , quite gruffly . `` I do n't want you , you are in the way . '' The poor little dog , who did n't understand this at all , pulled at his coat to make him at least look at her , and this made Prince Darling so cross that he gave her quite a hard kick . Instantly his ring pricked him sharply , as if it had been a pin . He was very much surprised , and sat down in a corner of his room feeling quite ashamed of himself . `` I believe the Fairy is laughing at me , '' he thought . `` Surely I can have done no great wrong in just kicking a tiresome animal !
What is the good of my being ruler of a great kingdom XXXXX I am not even allowed to beat my own dog ? ''
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