What Was That Test Again?
by Rue DeDay
Once upon a time there was a King, a Queen and a Prince.
The King and Queen wanted their boy to marry the most refined princess in
the land. So they proposed a test to each and every princess before they
would buy them from their father... I mean make an agreement and pledge her
hand in matrimony. Which is completely different.
It was a simple test. Or it should have been a simple test.
It usually went "You have to feel a pea through five mattresses". Sometimes
there are 100 mattresses, but the King's castle had low ceilings, so they
went with five. Only the King and Queen were idiots. They misheard the test
as "Pee through five mattresses, with feeling!"
This was so stupid, no princess would even try. A girl
has her dignity after all. The Prince never did marry, which was probably
just as well.
Posted 8/13/01