Once in a particular kingdom, there was a king and queen who were always happy. They were always together and were happy in each other’s company. Together the royal couple had a little daughter - Princess Delia. The subjects of this kingdom followed the royal couple and the people there in the kingdom were always happy. That was the reason that this kingdom was called the Joyous Land.
The irony was that the next kingdom was quite opposite in every single way. The king of the next kingdom always frowned and the people in the kingdom were always in fear of the king. In fact the frowning king was so wicked that if he found anyone happy in his kingdom, he killed the happy person instantly. The king had an ugly dwarf of a son who was also angry all the time. This kingdom was called the Land of Tears.
The wicked king heard about the Jolly king and his happy kingdom and the wicked king was furious. He was determined to stop the Jolly king from being happy and so the wicked king gathered a huge army and attacked the Joyous land.
The Queen of the Joyous Land was afraid when she learnt of this. She wanted the Jolly king to run away from this. But the Jolly king did not want to be a coward and he wanted to fight back.
The Jolly king collected all his armed men and he mounted his horse and rode into battle.
The Queen saw her husband go into battle and was unhappy and wondered about the fate of herself and her daughter, should anything happen to Jolly king.
But the Queen realized that there was nothing she could do and she waited.
The Jolly king sent her a letter everyday from the warfront.
However, one day, there was no letter and the Queen saw a messenger galloping towards the palace hurriedly.
Adapted from the Fairy Tales written by Countess d’Aulnoy
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