The Tailor and the bear (4) [The Tailor and the Bear]
The Tailor and the Bear (4)
" If you were old, I should have to say the colours were black and white, like the clothes call pepper and salt, " replied one.
" You are wrong, " said the Princess, and she turned to the second.
" The hairs are neither black nor white, " he replied, " but brown and red, like my father's holiday coat. "
" Wrong again, " said the Princess, turning to the third ; " most certainly these are not the answers
Then the little Tailor stepped boldly forward, and said, " The Princess has a silver and a golden hair on her head, and they, of course, are of different colours. "
When the Princess heard this she turned pale, and almost fell down with fright.
The little Tailor had guessed her riddle, and she had firmly believed that not a man upon earth could do so.
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