Now the youngest sister also wanted one of the golden feathers. She too thought that nobody would notice if she took just one. So she crept into Peter’s bedroom - and you can guess what happened next? Yes, she touched her elder sisters and found she couldn’t let go. So all three sisters had to stay there until the morning and when Peter woke up he found the three girls at the end of his bed.
He wanted to get to the Palace as soon as possible, so he set off with goose under his arm and with the three girls running along behind him, all holding on to each other. When the landlord saw his three daughters following Peter out of the front door, he ran outside after them. “Hey, where are you going?” he cried and he caught hold of his youngest daughter’s hand. And, of course, he found that he couldn’t let go. And then the landlord’s wife saw her husband and three daughters running out of the front door. She ran after them and shouted “Hey! Where are you going? Come back!” And guess what happened? Yes, she touched her husband’s hand and found that she couldn’t let go. So the landlord’s wife and the landlord and their three daughters all had to follow Peter down the street.
Meanwhile, at the Palace, many young men had arrived and had tried to make the princess laugh. The princess and the king had heard a lot of jokes - which were very boring - and the young men had been sent away. Then Peter arrived at the Palace. He was determined to tell the princess some jokes. So he was taken up to see her. He ran into the room with the golden goose under his arm and with the landlord’s three daughters, the landlord and the landlord’s wife all running along behind him. When the princess saw all this she burst out laughing.
“That’s the funniest thing I’ve ever seen,” she cried. But even though the princess was already laughing, Peter insisted on telling his joke. “Why did the pony cough?” asked Peter. “I don’t know,” replied the King, “why did the pony cough?” “Because he was a little hoarse,” replied Peter. At first the King didn’t understand the joke but then he began to realise and so did the princess and they both began to laugh. “Well young man,” said the King, “you’ve made me laugh and you’ve made my daughter laugh and so you can marry her.” So Peter and the princess were married and they lived happily ever after.
9 - THE STORY OF THE THREE WISHES
This is a story about a man and his wife who lived in a little house in the country. They were very poor. One evening they were sitting by the fire when the woman said: “If I could have everything I wanted, I’d be very happy.” Then a beautiful fairy suddenly appeared. She said: “You can have three wishes. Be careful. After you have had three wishes, you can’t have any more.” Then the fairy disappeared. “What shall we wish for?” said the man and his wife. The woman said: “I would like to be rich, beautiful and famous. What could be better than that?” But her husband said: “It would be better to wish for good health, cheerfulness and a long life.” His wife said: “I don’t like that idea very much.” And the man said: “I can’t decide. Let’s think about it.”
But the woman made a mistake. She said: “I wish I had a string of sausages.” And a string of sausages came down the chimney. And then the woman said: “I’m sorry. I made a mistake. I spoke without thinking.” Her husband was angry about the sausages. He made another mistake. He said: “I wish they were stuck to the end of your nose.” And the sausages were stuck to the end of his wife’s nose. And the woman said: “Look what you’ve done!”
They had wasted two wishes and now they had only one wish left. The wife thought there was only one thing to do. Her husband had a better idea. He said: “If I wish for a gold case to hide the sausages, then we’ll have some money.” But his wife didn’t like that idea. Even with a gold case, the sausages would still be stuck on the end of her nose! Her husband said: “You must have the last wish - wish for whatever you want.”
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