`` For an hour , with pleasure , Herr Schmidt , '' said the monarch . `` It is an untradesman-like and an unusual thing to decline an order ; and if your Majesty asked for my heart 's blood , I am ready to shed it , not to speak of anything in the line of my business -- namely , boot and shoe making . But keep a secret from my wife , I fairly own to your Majesty that I can not . '' Herr Schmidt went down on his knees and wept . -LCB- Herr Schmidt went down on his knees : p52.jpg -RCB- `` Rise , Herr Schmidt , '' said the king , taking him by the hand . `` A more honourable and chivalrous confession of an amiable weakness , if it is to be called a weakness , I never heard . Sir , you have been true to your honour and your prince , in face of what few men can bear , the chance of ridicule . There is no one here , I hope , but respects and will keep the secret of Herr Schmidt 's confession ? '' The assembled shopkeepers could scarcely refrain from tears . `` Long live King Prigio the Good ! '' they exclaimed , and vowed that everything should be kept dark . `` Indeed , sire , '' said the swordmaker , `` all the rest of us are bachelors . '' `` That is none the worse for my purpose gentlemen , '' said his Majesty ; `` but I trust that you will not long deprive me of sons and subjects worthy to succeed to such fathers . And now , if Herr Schmidt will kindly find his way to the buttery , where refreshments are ready , I shall have the pleasure of conducting you to the scene of your labours . '' Thus speaking , the king , with another magnificent bow , led the way upstairs to a little turret-room , in a deserted part of the palace . Bidding the tradesmen enter , he showed them a large collection of miscellaneous things : an old cap or two , a pair of boots of a sort long out of fashion , an old broadsword , a shabby old Persian rug , an ivory spy - glass , and other articles . These were , in fact , the fairy presents , which had been given to the king at his christening , and by aid of which -LRB- and his natural acuteness -RRB- he had , in his youth , succeeded in many remarkable adventures . The caps were the Wishing Cap and the Cap of Darkness . The rug was the famous carpet which carried its owner through the air wherever he wished to go . The sword was the Sword of Sharpness .
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