[snd] Music1

[wait] 100

Narrator
This Robot Theater presentation is brought to you by the great people at 4 1 1  Toys. 
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[snd] Music2

[wait] 50

Narrator
Todays story is The Princess and The Pea. By Hans Christian Andersen.

[snd] clap
[wait] 100

Narrator
ONCE upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess; but she would have to be a real princess. 


-Prince Talking to Queen by big fire place.

Prince
I traveled the world, but nowhere could I find what I 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 I came home again and I am sad, for I would have liked very much to have a real princess.

-Queen Putting a shaw around her neck.

Queen
Fear not my son. You will find your Princess soon.

-King pouring a drink.

[snd] LiquidPour

[wait] 50

king
 I did not find your mother until I was two years older then you. So see! . There is still time to find a real princess.


[snd] Music3

Narrator
One evening a terible 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. 

[snd] DoorKnock
[wait] 50

King
I wonder, who could be out on a night like this?

[snd] DoorKnock

[snd] FishBubble
Narrator
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.

[snd] FishBubble

Narrator
The water ran down from her hair and clothes; it ran down into the toes of her shoes, and out again at the heels. 



Princess
I am princess Gillian, from the north, And, I need some food and shelter. Can you please take me,  and my horse in from this rain?
[snd] HorseWhinny

[wait] 50

[snd] FishBubble

king
Come in my poor child. And we will, give you some dry close and food.

-Queen Standing behind king.

Queen
Well, we'll soon find out if this rain soaked rag a muffin is a real princess, or not.

Narrator
The queen went into the bed-room, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and laid a pea on the bottom; 


Narrator
 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. 

[snd] RoosterCrow

[wait] 150

-Queen Visiting Princess next morning.

Queen
How did you sleep last night my poor child?

Princess Sitting up in her bed. looking down at the Queen.

Princess
Oh, very badly!  I barely 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 horrable!

[snd] Music3

Narrator
 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.

-Prince Standing at door.

[wait] 100
Prince
Nobody but a real princess could be as sensitive as that.

[snd] Music1

Narrator
So the prince took her for his wife, for now they 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.  

Narrator
There, that is the true story of the Princes and the Pea.

[snd] Finale

[wait] 400

Narrator
That ends this weeks presentation of the Robot Theater,  brought to you by 4 1 1  Toys  dot com.

[snd] EndClap

[wait] 220

Narrator
Now we will turn control of the station back to the humans.

[snd] Sci-FiPulse