The Young King

There  was  once  an  old  king.  He  had  no  son  to  be  king.  When  he  died,  his  people  were  very  worried.  Who  will  be  the  next  king?  Say  asked.

But  before  the  king  died,  he  revealed  a  secret.  His  only  daughter,  the  princess,  had  a  child  in  secret.  She  married  an  ordinary  man,  and  they  had  a  son.  Some  people  said  her  husband  was  an  artist,  and  some  people  said  he  was  a  musician,  but  his  identity  was  a  musician.  But  his  identity  was  a  mystery,  and  nobody  knew  about  their  secret  son.

When  the  baby  was  a  week  old,  some  men  took  him  while  his  mother  was  sleeping.  The  princess  died  immediately,  some  people  said,  for  sadness.  Other  people  said  someone  gave  her  poison  in  a  cup  of  wine.  The  men  left  the  baby  with  a  very  poor  family.  This  poor  family  lived  in  the  forest,  and  the  boy  became  a  shepherd.

He  looked  after  goats  all  day.  The  old  king  made  an  important  decision.  The  boy  must  be  the  new  king  when  I  die,  he  said.  He  sent  his  servants  into  the  forest,  find  the  boy  and  bring  him  here.  The  servants  found  the  boy  and  brought  him  to  the  palace.

When  the  boy  arrived,  he  was  very  happy.  He  immediately  fell  in  love  with  all  the  beautiful  things  around  him.  He  took  off  his  old  leather  tunic  and  put  on  his  fine  new  clothes.  Then  he  began  to  explore  the  castle.  He  ran  from  room  to  room,  admiring  all  the  beautiful  statues,  paintings  and  jewels  in  the  palace,  the  people  of  the  city  talked  about  him.

That  young  king  spends  all  his  time  admiring  statues,  veins  all  his  time  admiring  statues.  Two  beauty  and  art  are  the  most  important  things  for  him.  In  fact,  the  young  king  was  so  fascinated  with  beautiful  objects  that  he  wanted  more  of  them.  He  sent  merchants  to  India  to  buy  ivory  and  jade.  He  sent  men  to  Persia  for  silk  carpets  and  others  to  find  amber  in  the  north.

He  sent  servants  to  look  for  green  turquoise  in  the  magic  tombs  of  the  Egyptian  kings.  The  young  king  thought  about  all  these  things.  But  most  of  all,  he  thought  about  all  these  things.  But  most  of  all,  he  thought  about  his  coronation  rope.  He  was  16,  and  it  was  his  coronation  day.

The  next  day  he  was  very  happy  because  he  had  a  beautiful  coronation  robe  of  gold,  a  crown  of  rubies  and  a  scepter  of  pearls.  He  ordered  men  to  work  night  and  day  to  prepare  his  coronation  robes,  to  search  the  whole  world  for  the  biggest  rubies  for  my  crown  and  the  most  beautiful  pearl  for  my  scepter,  he  said.  The  young  king  was  in  his  beautiful  bedroom  and  he  was  thinking  about  his  coronation  robes.  It  was  nighttime,  and  he  looked  around  him.  The  room  was  full  of  silver  and  gold  and  beautiful  colors.

Through  the  window,  he  could  smell  the  perfume  of  jasmine.  He  could  hear  a  nightingale  singing,  and  he  could  see  the  moon  shining.  Servants  arrived  and  put  flower  petals  on  his  pillow.  He  was  very  happy.  Tomorrow  was  his  coronation  day.

He  played  beautiful  music  on  his  loot.  And  at  midnight,  he  closed  his  eyes  and  went  to  sleep.  That  night,  the  young  king  had  a  dream.