The 12 Dancing Princesses

Okay, we're going to start this story off with a question.

Have you ever had a nighttime adventure? I sometimes have adventures in my dreams, but a real nighttime adventure can be very exciting.

The story we have today is about twelve princesses and their nighttime adventures.

The Twelve Dancing Princesses Long, long ago and far, far away, there was a king who had twelve beautiful daughters.

They slept in twelve beds, all in one room, and when they went to bed, the doors were shut and locked up, so they were safe.

but every morning their shoes were found to be quite worn through as if they had been danced in all night, and yet nobody could find out how it happened or where they had been.

So then the king made it known to all the land that if any person could discover the secret and find out where it was that the princesses danced in the night, he could choose one of them to be his wife and he would become king after him.

But whoever tried and did not succeed, after three days and nights, should be executed.

Soon enough a king's son came.

He was well entertained and in the evening was taken to the chamber next to the one where the princesses lay in their twelve beds.

So he had the bedroom just beside theirs.

there he was to sit and watch where they went to dance and in order that nothing might pass without his hearing it the door of his chamber was left open but the king's son soon fell asleep and when he awoke in the morning he found that the princesses had all been dancing for the soles of their shoes were full of holes the same thing happened the second and third night So the king ordered his head to be cut off.

After him came several others, but they all had the same luck and all lost their lives in the same manner.