This is the story that Humpty Dumpty told:
THE LITTLE LAME PRINCE
Once there were a king and a queen who had three daughters.
The elder daughters were very beautiful, but they were as proud as could be.
The youngest daughter was ugly, but she was good and gentle.
One day the king and the queen went away for a long visit. They left the three daughters at home.
The eldest daughter said, “I wish to be married, so I will have a sign made. On the sign I will have printed: ‘Look Here for the Beautiful Princess.’”
The gardener was ordered to make the sign and hang it on the golden gate.
A great many princes came to the palace now, but none of them were rich or handsome enough to suit the proud sisters.
Late one evening a little lame prince came up the walk. The sisters sat by the window, watching. When they saw that he was lame, they cried: