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The Six Servents

This fairy tail was give to me by a friend in The Netherlands. Basco, my friend translated it from Dutch to English as he told me this story one night. So please forgive some of the sentence strecture and grahamer.

One time in a kingdom far away there lived a witch, who managed a way to become queen. She had a beauitful daughter, but was very very jealous so she locked her up in teh tower and promised her that as longs as she was alive she would marry a prince. Rumors went through the country and far beyond about this beautiful Princess. Many Princes traveled to the castle to ask to marry the Princess. but since the evil witch became queen and did have muct to do besides playing with her magic book. Which was not fun for her, she decided to play games with the prince, she gave them three test if they succeeded they were allowed to marry the princess if not they would lose their head, which all of them did. Until one day a young handsome prince heard about the beautiful princess and decided to travel to the castle, so he saddled his horse and rode along the road, until he saw what he thought was a hill. But it wasn't it a hill, it was a huge fat guy. The Prince said "Good Afternoon." TheFat guy with a belly as big as a mountain said, "Good afternoon, my Prince, I am your humble servant." "Servant." The Price said "You're to fat." "I am not fat. I haven't had a decent meal in days. I can eat loads and after a good meal my belly is as big as a mountain." "In that case you can join me. You might come in handy." said The Prince. "My friends call me Hilltummy." The Fat man said. So together Hilltummy and the prince continued the trip. After a while they ran into another man who was listening to the ground, and The Prince asked, "What are you doing?" "I am listening to the sounds of the world." The Man said. "And in WattaWatta land the prices of bread ran up one cent, adn they are complaining about." "You can hear all that?" The Prince said. "I can even hear the grass grow." "That seems raelly handy." The Prince said. "Not always, sometimes it's annoying." "Would you like to becme my servant?" The Prince asked. "Sure." The Man said. "They call me Whisperears." So together Whisperears, Hilltummy and the Prince ran off. And for days they didn't see a soul until they bumped into a pair of big feet and following them, they saw some huge legs. Attached to a tall body and after 100 yards there was a face. "Good day" The Prince said. "Good day." The Man said. "You sure are a tall guy." The Prince said. "Not only that." said The Man "But I can walk around the world in20 steps. They call me Fastlegs." "Will you be my servant?" The Prince said. "Sure." said Fastlegs and off they went. While on their way to the castle The Prince gained three more servants, Bullet eyes who has his eyes covered with rags, because everything he looks at explodes,Long Neck who has a very long neck and very good eye sith, and he can see for miles and mile. Then comes Chilly Billy, who when they meet him is is running around and it's a sunny day, he is in his winter gear and blue from the cold. See Chilly Billy is cold when it's hot and hot when it's cold. They get to the caslt and The Prince asks his servants to wait for him at the local pub. He enters the castle ans asks to the queen to marry her daughter. The Evil Queen smiles, finally she got some entertainment again. Though she finds the young prince very handsome, she is sure he is going to lose his head. She tells him, "You can marry my daughter but only if you suceed for my three tests. Are you afraid yet? If you fail, you will lose your head." "I am not afraid." The Prince said."And I will suceed the tests" The Queen laughs an said "O K here's your frist test, I lost my ring inthe silver lake, whick is on the other side of the country. You have to get it for me and I want it back by noon." With his head down The Prince goes to the local pub and tells his servants that The Queen wishes. He is not so sure anymore. "No problem." Long Neck said and he walks outside with the other servants and The Princes behind him. He strechtes hsi neck and looks over the hills. "I see the lake" he said, and he looks closer, "Ah there is the ring right in the middle." "O K" The Prince said. "Now I know where it is but that will take me a few days to get there." "No it doesn't." Fastlegs said as he put The Prince and all the others on his back and takes three steps. "Here we go to the silver lake." "What the ring is in this little puddle?" Hilltummy said and Hilltummy lays down on his belly and starts to drink. A few seconds later the lake is totaly dry, and Fastlegs takes half a step adn collects the ring and gives it to The Prince. "Hurry up." Whisperears said. "I can hear the clock ticking it's almost noon." Fastlegs put the entire group on his back and take another 3 big steps and puts The Prince in front of the castle gates. He runs to the queen and as he enters the clock stricks noon, "Just in time to give me your head." The Queen said. "I wouldn't be to sure." The Prince said and gives her the ring. "Impossible." The Queen curses adn looks at her ring. "Nobody has done this before. But I guess you are just lucky. Your next test is going to be impossible; out in the field behind the castle are 300 oxen, and in my celler are 300 barrels of wine, you got to eat and drink it all and by midnight. I dont want to see a drop or a crumb left. But I want to have the tails of the oxen so I want to see 300 tails at midnight." "O K" The Prince said. "it's a lot of food adn wine, can I bring some guests?" The Prince asks. "Since you're a good looking young prince yoiu can bring one guest." The Queen said. When The Prince walks out fo the castle Hilltummy is already waiting for him. Whisperears was listening to the conversation inthe palace adn told him the prince would need his help. So at midnight there are 300 tails out in the field adn there is not a drop of wine left in the celler. and wiggling Hilltummy walks back to the inn and The Prince goes to see The Queen. Angry The Queen said "I dont know how you did it but you defianlty not going to suceed for the last test. I am going to build a fire in the yard of the castle. If you can find anyone who will sit in the middle of the fire for as long as it burn till it self extingushes you can marry my daughter but only then." Teh Queen thinks it's impossible nobody is as crazy to volunteer for that. How could she be more wrong. When The Prince walks to the inn he runs into Chilly Billy, "I volunterr my Prince." he said. So is said so it's done. The next day Chilly Billy takes his place in the center fo the fire. The fire last for 3 days, together with his other 5 servants The Prince and The Queen watch how Chilly Billy almost freezes in the center of the fire. When the fire goes out, Chilly Billy said "I do anything for you my Prince but never ever shall I volunteer for something like that. I almost froze to death." The Prince looked at The Queen and said "I can marry your daughter now." The Queen goes nuts. "No,no,you cheated. I will have your head." Then the only servant who hasn't done anything so far steps forward. It's Bullet Eye, he revels his eyes and looks at The Queen adn poof she exploded. If it really was Bullet Eye who made that happen nobody knows it could have been The Queen exploded from anger. The Prince saves The Princess adn they married and returned to his kingdom together with his six humble servants, who get a super treatment of food and drinks for the rest of their lives, the old queen fo the country who got banned from her castle byt the witch got her place back and everyone lives happily ever after. The End

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