Princess or a Pauper?
The castle was bustling with servants and scullery maids rushing back and forth retrieving the necessary items needed for the birth of the country of Laos's new prince or princess.
"Where is the doctor!" the queen yelled in agony. She screamed in pain. The servants dabbed her forehead wiping off the beads of sweat.
The servants scurried around the room in worry, "Your highness, the doctor is right here, you just have to calm down a bit to let the doctor help you,"
"Don't you dare tell me what to do!" the queen yelped in rage.
The doctor soothed the queen, "Your majesty, the baby is just about to come out, just hold on a bit longer." The queen finally shouted her last yelp and everything was quiet.
The doctor picked up the new born baby and held it up to examine it, "It's a girl." Everyone let out a breath of sadness.
The queen held out her hands and held the new princess and soaked in every last detail of the baby.
The door opened and the King walked in, "Where is my little boy?"
Everyone looked up at him with sad eyes, "Your highness, I'm sorry to inform you of this, but it is a girl." The King had fire blazing in his eyes as he picked up the little princess.
The King screamed in rage, "Guards! Send this…this disgusting thing out of this castle!" The queen held the baby tight to her body away from the guards but it was no use. The guards took the baby and took it out of the castle. They placed the princess near a tiny, poor shack that was barely supporting its weight on the outskirt of the kingdom.
The next morning, an old couple opened the door of the tiny shack, revealing the baby, "Oh, John! Look at this poor thing!" The old woman picked up the crying baby, "John isn't this what we've been praying for all these years?"
John looked at the fragile baby, "Mary, how can we support this baby when we can't even support a goldfish let alone ourselves!" Mary looked into John's eyes longingly and John finally broke, "Oh ok, but if we go bankrupt, we're going to send her right out the door!"
Mary smiled and kissed John on the cheek. The couple with the child in hand, went in the broken down shack.