Once upon a time, there lived a very poor family, the poorest in the kingdom. They wore old dishrags for clothes and ate whatever they could find in the woods.

One day, as the young daughter sat in the shade of a large tree, her stomach growling with hunger, the prince himself came galloping down the road on his noble donkey. She had always heard how handsome the prince was; but in truth, he was pretty butt-ugly.