The Princess and the Pea by Hans Christian Andersen (1835) 豌豆公主
The Princess and the Pea by Hans Christian Andersen (1835)
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ONCE upon a time there was a prince who wanted
to marry a princess; but she would have to be a real princess. He travelled all
over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. There were
princesses enough, but it was difficult to find out whether they were real
ones. There was always something about them that was not as it should be. So he
came home again and was sad, for he would have liked very much to have a real
princess.
One evening a terrible
storm came on; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in
torrents. Suddenly a knocking was heard at the city gate, and the old king went
to open it.
It was a princess
standing out there in front of the gate. But, good gracious! what a sight the
rain and the wind had made her look. The water ran down from her hair and
clothes; it ran down into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels. And
yet she said that she was a real princess.
“Well, we’ll soon find
that out,” thought the old queen. But she said nothing, went into the bed-room,
took all the bedding off the bedstead, and laid a pea on the bottom; then she
took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty eider-down
beds on top of the mattresses.
On this the princess had
to lie all night. In the morning she was asked how she had slept.
“Oh, very badly!” said
she. “I have scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in
the bed, but I was lying on something hard, so that I am black and blue all
over my body. It’s horrible!”
Now they knew that she
was a real princess because she had felt the pea right through the twenty
mattresses and the twenty eider-down beds.
Nobody but a real
princess could be as sensitive as that.
So the prince took her
for his wife, for now he knew that he had a real princess; and the pea was put
in the museum, where it may still be seen, if no one has stolen it.
There, that is a true
story.
1q Who thought,,"Well, we'll soon find that out."?
Ans= the old queen
2q What did she say?
Ans= nothing
3q Which vegetable was put in the beds?
Ans= 2 peas
4q How did she feel?
Ans= very tired.
5q He had a ---- princess, What kind?
And= real
Bq How did they know?
Ans=Because she woke up black and
blue from only 2 peas.
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