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EP 205: Azores- The Daughter of the King of Naples (Eells) · Sandman Stories Presents

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  Welcome back listeners to Sandman Stories Presents, a
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  folklore podcast where I read you to sleep or until the next
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  story. I'm your host, Dustin.
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  Today we are back in the book of Azorian folklore written down by
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  Elsie Spicer Eels. This one is about a Prince who
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  sets out to marry a woman before he even knows that she exists.
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  Then, after some smooth talking, he loses his bride to be to a
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  thief. Will he find her again?
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  OK, let's begin. The daughter of the king of
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  Naples, the story of a prince's quest.
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  There was once a king who had only one son.
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  The years passed by and he did not marry.
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  So one day his father called him before him and said the time has
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  come when you should marry my son.
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  You are now at the age when you should no longer wait to choose
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  your bride. Why is it that you have not
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  already done this? The Prince replied.
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  I will wed no one except for the daughter of the King of Naples.
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  Do you know that the King of Naples has a daughter?
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  Asked the father. No, answered the son.
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  I do not know. I should advise you to find out
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  whether or not the king of Naples happens to have a
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  daughter before you decide to marry her, Remarked the king
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  dryly. That is good advice, replied the
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  Prince. I thank you.
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  Accordingly, he asked everybody he met whether the King of
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  Naples had a daughter. There was no person to be found
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  who knew anything about it. You'll.
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  Have to go to Naples to obtain this information.
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  Advise the king. It is a long journey, but if you
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  were determined to marry nobody except the daughter of the King
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  of Naples, there seems. To be no way except to go there
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  and learn whether or not he has a daughter.
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  Accordingly, a ship was prepared, and the Prince sailed
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  for Naples. It was a difficult, stormy
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  voyage, but finally they arrived safely.
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  The moment they landed, the beggars came crowding about
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  them. The Prince distributed alms
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  amongst them most generously. Then?
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  He asked. Does anyone know whether or not
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  the King of Naples has a daughter?
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  There was nobody who knew. Finally, however, an old woman
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  said that once she had passed by the royal palace and there was a
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  beautiful face at the window. I think that perhaps this was
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  the daughter of the king of Naples, but I do not know, she
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  added. Go at once and find out, ordered
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  the Prince. You shall be richly rewarded.
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  The old woman hastened to the royal palace.
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  She saw the same lovely face at the window which she had seen
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  before. Lovely lady, I want to talk to
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  you, she called out. Now, it happened that day that
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  the Princess was feeling decidedly bored and out of tune
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  with life. It looked like an interesting
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  diversion to talk with an old woman.
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  Thus it came to pass that she opened the window graciously.
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  What do you wish, good mother? She asked.
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  Are you the daughter of the King of Naples?
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  Questioned the old. Woman, I am, replied the
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  Princess. May I come someday to sell you
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  pretty things? Asked the old woman.
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  The Princess appointed in an hour the next day.
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  When she might come with her wares, then the old woman
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  hurried back to the waiting Prince.
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  The King of Naples has a daughter, she cried.
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  A very beautiful daughter too. The Prince showered the old
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  woman with gold. He was so delighted that at last
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  he had found out this information that he could well
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  afford to be generous. The old woman thanked him.
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  I did something else for you, kind Sir, she said.
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  I made an appointment to see the Princess.
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  Tomorrow I am going to the palace at 4:00 to sell pretty
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  things to her. Well done.
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  Good mother, Cried the Prince again, thrusting his hand into
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  his purse. Let me go in your place.
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  The old woman gladly consented, and the Prince dressed himself
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  as a peddler. The next afternoon, at 4:00 he
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  went to the palace of the King of Naples.
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  It is a peddler. With many interesting wares for
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  sale, said the servant who answered his knock.
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  He speaks of an appointment with your.
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  Royal Highness, Yes, said the Princess.
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  A peddler? Was to come today at 4:00 with
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  pretty things for me to buy. Accordingly, the Prince was
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  admitted to the presence of the daughter of the King of Naples.
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  If she were surprised to find the peddler a handsome young man
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  instead of the old woman with whom she had talked the day
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  before, she did not. Show it what lovely things you
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  have, she cried as she examined the tray full of ribbons and
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  beads and trinkets. She selected a number of wares
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  and then she asked what is the price of these?
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  The Prince would not set a price if your royal.
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  Highness is pleased with these, said he.
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  I have many more things at home which you will like even better.
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  I'll bring them to you tomorrow. That would be splendid, cried
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  the Princess. Come again tomorrow at this
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  hour. The next day, the Prince again
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  dressed himself as a peddler, but underneath the outer
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  garments he wore his own rich clothing.
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  When he was admitted to the royal palace he laid aside his
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  peddlers disguise and stood before the Princess, looking
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  like the true Prince he was. It was very handsome in his rich
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  suit of Crimson velvet with his hat with the long plume in his
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  hand. The Princess was so surprised
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  that she turned pale. Who are?
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  You, She cried. You surely are not the.
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  Peddler who came here yesterday. The Prince smiled into her eyes,
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  and even without the peddlers garments which were rolled up in
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  the tray, she would have recognized him.
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  He told her of the quest which had led him there, and she
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  admired all the patience and diligence he had shown in
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  finding out her existence. When he asked her to marry him
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  at once, she readily consented. They planned that she would
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  steal down the staircase at night and go away with him on a
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  ship. All this sounded very romantic
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  to the daughter of the King of Naples.
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  She had never dreamed that a thing like this would ever
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  happen. All her life she had been so
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  closely guarded that stealing out of the palace and sailing
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  away in the Prince's ship seemed like the most wonderful thing in
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  the world. The next night had been agreed
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  on, and long ahead of the appointed hour the Prince sat on
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  a horseback at the foot of the stairway, down which the
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  Princess would steal. He was very weary with all the
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  excitement of the past three days, and as he waited, he fell
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  asleep. A robber passed by and saw his
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  sleeping form hanging limply from the saddle.
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  I'll gently deposit him on the ground and get away with his
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  horse and saddle. Thought the thief as he stopped
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  and regarded the horse with a critical eye.
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  Just then, however, he saw something which made him change
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  his mind about hurrying away. After he had deposited the
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  Sleeping Prince's form beneath the tree, there was the
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  loveliest maiden he had ever seen.
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  Creeping silently down the stairway.
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  She came straight up to him. I'm ready, beloved, were her
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  words. The robber silently lifted her
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  behind him on the horse's back and together they rode away.
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  Where is your boat? Asked the Princess after they
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  had ridden together for some time without speaking.
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  So it is a boat which the Fair Lady is looking for, thought the
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  thief. I was expecting this good horse
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  to carries the whole distance. A boat is a bit difficult to
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  arrange, but it can be done if necessary.
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  There ought to be a boat around here somewhere for me to steal.
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  He left the daughter of the King of Naples on the shore while he
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  went to steal a boat. When he returned, the light
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  shone upon his face, and the girl thought that he did not
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  look the same as before. Of course I've seen him only
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  twice, she told herself, in an effort to gain assurance.
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  It must be the Prince, my own true love.
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  Here is our boat, said the robber, And together they
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  embarked. As the morning light shone upon
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  the robber, the Princess saw that he was not in the least
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  like the Prince who had come a peddling.
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  The robber laughed. Does my lady know with whom she
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  is going away? He asked.
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  I thought I was going with the Prince who is my lover, she
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  replied, bursting into bitter tears.
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  Running away was not half as romantic and delightful as she
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  had pictured it. She heartily wished that she
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  were back in the royal palace. As for the Prince, he soon awoke
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  and looked about the palace garden where he was lying under
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  the tree. How did I get here?
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  He asked as he rubbed his eyes sleepily.
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  There was no one to tell him, so he decided that his horse must
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  have thrown him off and run away.
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  It is queer that my fall did not awaken me, he said to himself.
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  It is a bit awkward to lose my horse, however, if the Princess
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  only keeps her promise and comes to me.
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  We shall manage to get to our ship somehow.
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  He waited very patiently for a time.
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  And then he began to fear that the Princess had repented of her
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  promise to run away. He did not give her up, however,
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  until it was almost daylight. Then he sorrowfully returned to
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  his waiting ship. I have at last found out that
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  the King of Naples has a daughter and that she is the
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  most beautiful Princess in the whole world, he said.
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  If she prefers not to have a runaway marriage, it will
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  doubtless be better for me to sail home and tell my father to
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  make arrangements with the King of Naples for our wedding.
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  There are some advantages in this more dignified method.
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  Does it happen that the Prince sailed away for his own country,
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  never dreaming that the Princess had kept her promise to steal
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  down the stairway in the night, and that then she was in the
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  hands of the wicked robber? The daughter of the King of
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  Naples sobbed and cried so loud when she found out that it was
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  not her own Prince with whom she was sailing, that the robber had
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  become quite disgusted with her. I thought you were a Pretty
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  Little maid, he said when I first saw you.
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  But now I've changed my mind about you.
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  Indeed, no person with good eyesight would have called the
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  Princess pretty at that moment. With her face all red and
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  swollen from much weeping, the robber decided that he did not
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  want to bother with her any longer.
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  So he landed in the. Country of the Yunkieras, and
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  left her there. The Princess wandered about the
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  place until night came without seeing a single soul, nothing
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  but the sea sky and rocks. She was really, however, not far
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  from the Hut in which there lived, the wife and daughter of
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  a poor fisherman in the stillness.
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  Of the night they heard a. Cry someone is in trouble
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  outside. Mother, said the daughter.
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  Perhaps the pirates have come and by this crier trying to lure
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  us out? Answered her mother cautiously.
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  There were often pirate ships which stopped there.
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  The daughter listened carefully. No, mother, she insisted.
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  I'm sure this is a girl's cry. The two women opened their door
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  and crept out into the darkness. The sobs of the Princess soon
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  LED them to the place upon the rocks where she lay crying as if
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  her heart would break. They lifted her tenderly and
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  carried her home. The fisherman's daughter gave
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  the Princess some of her own clothes to wear, and they lived
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  together as if they were sisters together.
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  They did all the work of the little house, and the Princess
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  was too busy to weep. Sometimes, however, she cried.
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  In the night, when the fisherman's wife and daughter
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  were asleep, she wept for her lost love and for the royal
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  palace of the King of Naples, which had always been her home.
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  Now it happened that the Prince's ship encountered a
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  great storm and was driven about by the sea.
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  At last it was blown by the gales to the.
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  Land of the Yunkieras. The Prince saw the fisherman's
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  daughter and the Princess standing on the rocks by the
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  sea. He stared hard at the Princess.
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  Then he spoke in a voice which shook.
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  You remind me of someone I used to know.
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  He said, Tell me your name. I pray you, fair maid.
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  The Princess looked down at the garments of the fishermaid which
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  she wore. She blushed the Prince she had
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  recognized the very moment she had seen him.
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  I am the daughter of the King of Naples, she said.
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  The fisherman's daughter stared at her in amazement.
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  She is no King's daughter, she cried.
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  She is a poor, abandoned maid who came to us out of the sea.
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  We found her upon these very rocks.
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  It is my own dress that she is wearing a King's daughter.
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  Indeed, she is no more the daughter of the King of Naples
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  than I am, but the Prince had taken the daughter of the King
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  of Naples in his arms as soon as they returned to the palace.
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  Their wedding was celebrated with great joy and they lived
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  together as God. Lives with the angels.
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  The End. I really like that story,
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  although the the very end just kind of was like.
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  OK. No, we found her, OK?
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  No, she's not really king. Oh, yeah, she is.
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  It seemed like there could be another step there.
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  There could be another part of the story.
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  It seems like something's missing.
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  But again, I I love these. I did have some trouble with the
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  sentences with which they are upon.
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  Yeah, just sentence order from 100 years ago sometimes gets me.
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  That's OK. And the podcast shout out is to
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  ego, Chef, and they take you on a tour of the folklore
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  throughout the African diaspora. With lots of Tails that you
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  the listener shout out is to Sita Solier, Haiti.
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  It was a shanty town that expanded in the 1970s when sugar
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  cane workers moved there for work.
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  It's a neighborhood of Port-au-Prince in Haiti.
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  It is dealt with intense poverty, infectious disease and
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  roving gangs. I really hope to see this
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  beautiful country turn things around and get a refund from
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  France, who bled them dry after the revolution.
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  And so for my friend Rosie the. Haitian Mama Messi.
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  Thank you, Bon nuit. Goodnight and from me.
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  Thank you and goodnight.