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THE SWINEHERD.
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real Princess, since she had been able to feel the three little peas through the twenty mattrasses and twenty feather beds. None but a real Princess could have had such a delicate sense of feeling.

The Prince accordingly made her his wife; being now convinced that he had found a real Princess. The three peas were however put into the cabinet of curiosities, where they are still to be seen, provided they are not lost.

Was not this lady a real delicacy.