The Strong Princess

Once upon a time, there lived a strong princess. She could build castle walls with heavy rocks. She could put fallen trees across the river to make a bridge. She could even pick up her horse!
The boys in the land thought they should be stronger than a girl. “People will think we’re weak if the princess can lift more than we can,” they said. They decided to trick the princess.
One day, she walked on the road with her horse and saw an awful sight. Two boys lay under a fallen tree in the mud. The princess tried to lift the tree. She tried and she tried, but she could not lift it. She fell in the mud. The boys jumped up. “You’re not strong now,” they laughed.
The princess saw what had happened. The boys had tied a rope around the tree and weighted it down with a big rock. But the princess said nothing. She knew that she was strong. That was all that mattered.