THE SNORING PRINCESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 75, 30 March 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)

THE SNORING PRINCESS.

Once upon a time, there was a Queen Tiin had one little daughter. The little ,pr".nep"ss was the very prettiest baby • V'-r seen, but as the forgot to f invite one ero-*e old fairy to her | she h.xd om horri.l |>resent. The ' cross olfl fairy emne one day anct ' touched her wee nose, and ever atter- I the baby snored. The Queen was fearfully itp-»et; she I all the other fairies to eur-j her fea.'iy, for, she vva-s. mj tiny, she enored as loudly as a pi.;! Arid no j Jpri:ic'jSs should ever tnore at all. But the f;:.irie-5 could do nothing; they all said that the princess 'Must wait •mil she was a big girl, and then she *i>t try and cure hei'self. The cross fairy eonld not stop her doing , that, at •curr-e. Sii everyone had to put ui» with the enuring; but ad she grew biy_'er, it ;zoi •o loud that she used to ske;) ail by in a dear wee hou=e in the. tt-ood;; only her old N'anmi, who was <juite deaf, slept there with her, and her iuriny little iscottie dog, called William. '1 he princess tried hard to find a eurc; «he read books, and she asked clover doctors, but it was no use. So -he packed a little bag ot things and fix*!, ami took her white pony, and her littfe doLr, William, and set off on a long journey to find a cure. And wherever #he went she was kind, and people all loved her, but not one of them could telf ier of a cure. At last one day, a year after she had left home, she came to a pond, all covered with green slime and ever so deep. And in the pond was a poor old pi;:, nearly drowned. The princ-ess was miserable; she wondered how she could ielp him. She could not swim, or she -would have gone in to him. So she took off the bridle of her pony, and made a long rope, and tied it to William's collar, And told him to take it to the old pig. And she told the old pig to catch « in his mouth, and she would pull nim to the bank. But William was so little, and the ireeds were t»o thick, that he could nert •wim 60 far. Then the princess saw he be drowned, so she shut her eyes, tecause the horrible pond made her leel •ick, and she waded *n herself, bhe pulled out William, and then she tried to get to the pig, but she could not ewiia. .So she kissed her lovely clean white ponv, and begged him to let her ride iim'into the water, and swim to the pig. And that was how she managed to gee the poor old pig safe to land. Then she dried hrm wrtb her sleepm? Tug and gave him some of her bread, and

he got quite well. And. suddenly, he opened his funny, l«g mouth and i-ani: "■ Princess, lam ;i tnagic pi , ;: what thai! I give yen I'm saving uiy life?" And. cf course, the prince*- a>'iect him to cure her habit of ?uoring. How t!:e oJil pig grinned! Ht , told hur to go h-jiue righc away. <j n<l t-!:c u,.iilJ iiswi riio.'e again iii Ler lii\*. But himself, lie thought -die was iuvky to have such a lovely big snore! S><> the princess, who wha kind to the uply o!d pig, w;)3 cured by him, and to keep him in memory slw: wore a little jruld pig with diamond eye-, louud her iu'k mi a goid chain all her life. She never snored again, and the tunny tiling was that nuiie of her children end grandchildren and great-grandchildren ever snored either. But there never were pigs with such huge snores as those ir; her kingdom. So the old pig had not wasted the snore he took away from the urhietists, von see.