Good evening, children. It's Granny Madduff, ready with a story. So make yourselves comfy, and I'll begin.

Once upon a time, there lived a king, who had a daughter, who was called Adeline.

While she was quite handsome, Adeline was pompous and snooty.

And when it came time for her to take a husband, she thought no suitor was good enough for her.

So she sent them away one after the other, and not without insult. She would find fault

with each one and pointed out in front of the whole court. The king planned a great feast, and

invited all the young eligible men from his kingdom and beyond

to come and make merry and to meet the princess in hopes she would fancy one of them enough

to take as her husband soon it was the night of the great party, and all the suitors arrived.

Kings, grand dukes, princes, earls, barons, and gentry alike.

Each one Adeline was introduced to, she would slight. So tall you are, tall and slim,

quite like a giraffe, she said to one. So short you are, like a peacock, she said to another.

Ah, did we invite a ghost father baron how pale you are i do suggest a

walk through the gardens on a sunny day then she saw a young king who had arrived late he was handsome, but he wore a beard so pointy and long

that she cried, You have a beard like a thrush's beak. The princess's father was not

pleased when he saw that his daughter did nothing but mock the suitors. He vowed she would learn a lesson.

He would marry her to the first man who walked through the gates after sunrise the next morning.

So, when the sun began to peek over the horizon, the king watched the gates of the palace.

The king waited and waited and waited.

Then, finally, the gates opened, and a musician strolled through.

He carried his fiddle, and nothing else.

He sang beneath the windows of the palace.

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