He ate four meals a day , slept twelve hours out of the twenty-four , and the only thing he ever did was to shoot at small birds with his bow and arrow . Still , with all his practice he shot very badly , he was so fat and heavy , and as he grew daily fatter , he was at last obliged to give up walking , and be dragged about in a wheel-chair , and the people made fun of him , and gave him the name of my Lord Tubby . Now , the only trouble that Lord Tubby had was about his son , whom he loved very much , although they were not in the least alike , for the young Prince was as thin as a cuckoo . And what vexed him more than all was , that though the young ladies throughout all his lands did their best to make the Prince fall in love with them , he would have nothing to say to any of them , and told his father he did not wish to marry . Instead of chatting with them in the dusk , he wandered about the woods , whispering to the moon . No wonder the young ladies thought him very odd , but they liked him all the better for that ; and as he had received at his birth the name of Desire , they all called him d'Amour Desire . ` What is the matter with you ? ' his father often said to him . ` You have everything you can possibly wish for : a good bed , good food , and tuns full of beer . The only thing you want , in order to become as fat as a pig , is a wife that can bring you broad , rich lands . So marry , and you will be perfectly happy . ' ' I ask nothing better than to marry , ' replied Desire , ` but I have never seen a woman that pleases me . All the girls here are pink and white , and I am tired to death of their eternal lilie and roses . ` My faith ! ' cried Tubby ; ` do you want to marry a negress , and give me grandchildren as ugly as monkeys and as stupid as owls ? ' ` No , father , nothing of the sort . But there must be women somewhere in the world who are neither pink nor white , and I tell you , once for all , that I will never marry until I have found one exactly to my taste . ' II Some time afterwards , it happened that the Prior of the Abbey of Saint Amand sent to the Lord of Avesnes a basket of oranges , with a beautifully-written letter saying that these golden fruit , then unknown in Flanders , came straight from a land where the sun always shone . That evening Tubby and his son ate the golden apples at supper , and thought them delicious . Next morning as the day dawned , Desire went down to the stable and saddled his pretty white horse .
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