The Ending of the Doomed Prince

Hello, this is Jana

And this is Bertie

And we are here with your endings to the story of the doomed prince

You may recall that the doomed prince is a fairy tale from ancient Egypt

In several respects it's like the famous fairy tales we know and love, but there is one thing

that is particularly unusual. The ending was torn off the papyrus paper on which it was written,

so we don't know what happened. At the start of the story, the prince was fated to be killed

by a dog, a snake or a crocodile.

He has a greyhound dog whom he loves, and he marries a princess, whom he also loves.

Just as the story trails off, he has been taken prisoner by a crocodile who tells him that his arch

enemy is an evil spirit of the lake we asked you to tell us what happened next

and of course there is no one correct answer as you can make up almost any ending

you like we've had so many replies and we'd like to give everyone a mention,

as your ideas are all so brilliant.

However, it does mean that we have to shorten most of your endings.

Here goes.

Myla, who is nine years old and lives in Boston, tells us that the evil spirit was a snake.

And she says,

The prince asked the spirit why it was so unhappy and angry.

The evil spirit told the prince that he would feel better if he knew that the crocodile would never eat his family.

The crocodile agreed never to harm any of the snakes living in the lake.

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