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What story had the young princes grown
up hearing?
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The King and the Queen of Siam had so many daughters that they decided to name their daughters January, February, March till they named their youngest daughter September. The King had a strange habit of giving away gifts on his birthday instead of receiving them. He thus gifted all of his daughters a green parrot in a golden cage. The Princesses gave the parrots an hour each day and taught them to say ‘God save the King’ and ‘Pretty Polly’ in no less than seven Oriental languages.
Princess September’s parrot died one day and she got very upset. She kept on crying and nothing her Maid of Honours did comforted her. They consulted the Queen who advised them to put her to bed without any supper. The Maids of Honour did it and left her alone. The Princess did not stop crying and suddenly, she noticed a little bird sitting on her window. The bird sang so beautifully that she jumped up to sit in her bed. It even made her forget about the parrot and that she was hungry because she had missed her supper. The little bird asked the Princess to let him be her pet bird. Princess September got delighted and the bird sang her to sleep that night. Next day, when the Maids of Honour brought her breakfast, she fed the bird rice with her hands and bathed him in her saucer. She then decided to show the bird to her family. Thus, she went about the palace and the little bird sang a different song for everyone. The King and the Queen were delighted on seeing the melodious bird. The Queen felt it was right for her to send the Princess to sleep without supper. The King, on the other hand, felt happy on seeing the bird sing as he was tired of listening to the parrots say ‘Pretty Polly’ in seven different languages. It reminded him of his councillors who could also say the same thing in seven different ways without making sense in any one of them. This