KING. Why should you keep it? You do not use it.
STORY-TELLER. For three months I have used it, Sire!
KING. Your story is too short, I say! Away with him, guards! Away!
(Guards take out the First Story-Teller.)
Bid another Story-Teller come!
(A guard admits the SECOND STORY-TELLER, who bows before the King and Princess.)
Sir, hear me. You must tell a story that will last forever.
SECOND STORY-TELLER. I hear, O King!
KING. If you can do this, you shall marry my daughter and be king after me.
SECOND STORY-TELLER. I hear, O King!