By: Natalie Youssef

Hace mucho, mucho tiempo viva una familia real y feliz en Mxico. Era una
familia pequea de tres personas: un rey, una reina y una princesa. Cada da la
madre cepillaba el pelo de la princesa. Un da la reina descubri un piojo pequeo!
La madre grit y ordin a la princesa mostrar a su padre el piojo en su pelo. El rey
respondi diferentemente que anticipaba la princesa. Con una sonrisa extraa el
dijo, Ponga el piojo en un frasco. Yo quiero ver cmo grande el piojo puede crecer si
el piojo come solamente sangre real.
Cada da la princesa tomaba el piojo de la frasco y dejaba el piojo comer en su
sangre real como pidi su padre. Da por da ella continuaba esta rutina. Era muy
aburrida despus de dos o tres das. La princesa decidi de tomar el piojo en un
viaje! Ella tom el frasco con el piojo y corri por en la calle y mont el piojo en un
parque pequeo para turistas. Ella explic su pueblo entero al piojo. Ellos se
convirtieron en amigos mejores. Cada da ella tomaba el piojo en un viaje diferente y
ellos tenan un buen tiempo.
De repente, el piojo comenz a crecer grande y era muy difcil para la
princesa llevar el piojo por todos partes del pueblo. El rey le gustaba el tamao del
piojo, pero quera que el piojo sea ms grande! La princesa continuaba a alimentar
al piojo su sangre real cada da. El piojo creca tan grande que la princesa no poda
tomar a su amigo en ms aventuras. La vida estaba aburrida otra vez para la
princesa y el piojo.
En cuatro o cinco semanas, la rey decidi que el piojo era el tamao perfecto.
El piojo no poda moverse! La princesa estaba devastaba y se sent y habl por
horas porque l no poda moverse. La rey se dio cuenta de que la princesa cre una
relacin con el piojo. Esa noche, cuando la princesa estaba durmiendo, el rey mat
al piojo! En la maana la princesa grit muy fuerte. Toda la pueblo oy el grito de la
princesa. Ella pregunt su padre como muri el piojo. El padre minti y dijo, El
piojo era grande y muri mientras que dorma.
El rey orden el sastre real usar el piel del piojo para hacer un saco. El saco
era mejor que todos los sacos imaginables. Todo el mundo quera saber cual tipo de
animal fue. Nadie pudo adivinar una respuesta correcta. El rey saba que esta era el
acertijo mejor para casarse su hija a un hombre inteligente. La persona que poda
contestar el acertijo correctamente poda casarse con la princesa como una premio.
Un da cuando el rey se rea sobre el acertijo, un pastor camin el castillo real.
El pastor oy el rey riendo y el par para descubrir lo que pasaba. El pastor puso su
cabeza en la ventana cuando el oy el rey gritando, Nadie puede resolver mi
acertijo! El piel del saco es del piojo! El prximo da el pastor corri al castillo y le
dijo al rey la respuesta al acertijo. A la princesa y el rey les gusta mucho la respuesta.
El pastor y la princesa se casaron el prximo da! El pastor y la princesa vivan
felices para siempre.
English:
Once upon a time there lived a happy royal family in Mexico. It was a small
family of three, a king, queen, and a princess. Each day the mother combed the
princesss hair. One day she came across a small louse! The mother screamed and
ordered the princess to show her father the louse that was in her hair. The king
reacted differently than the princess expected. With a smirk on his face he said, Put
the louse in a jar. I want to see how big this louse can grow if it feeds off of royal
blood. The king had a brilliant idea in mind.
Each day the princess took the louse out of the jar and let it feed on her
royal blood just like her father asked. Day after day she continued this routine. This
was really boring for her after a couple of days. The princess decided to take the
louse on a trip! She took the jar with the louse and ran down street and took the
louse on a little boat for tourists. She explained her entire village to the louse. They
became best friends. Each day she took the louse on a different trip and they had a
great time.
All of a sudden, the louse began to grow way to big and it was really had for
the princess to carry the louse around her village. The king was pleased with the
size of the louse, but wanted the louse to be even bigger! The princess continued to
feed the louse her royal blood each day. The louse grew so large that the princess
could no longer take her friend on any more adventures. Life was boring again for
the princess and the louse.
A couple weeks later the king decided the louse was the perfect size. The
louse could no longer move! The princess was devastated and would sit and talk to
her louse for hours because it couldnt move. The king realized that the princess had
created a relationship with the louse. That night when the princess was asleep the
king killed the louse! The next morning the princess was crying so loud the entire
village could hear here. She asked her father how the louse died and the father said
that it was too big and died in its sleep.
While the princess was depressed he ordered the royal tailor to tan and
tailor the louse skin in order to make a coat. The coat was better than anything he
had ever imagined. Everyone was wondering what type of animal created this
amazing coat. No one could guess the right answer. The king knew that this would
be the best riddle in order to marry off his daughter. Whoever could answer the
riddle right would get to marry the princess as a reward.
One day while the king was laughing about the riddle a pastor walked by the
royal castle. The pastor heard the king bursting out laughing so he stopped to find
out what was going on. The pastor stuck his head in the window when he heard the
king scream, No one will ever solve my riddle! The coat is made of louse! The next
day the pastor ran to the castle and told the king the answer to the riddle. Both the
princess and king were very pleased. The pastor and princess got married the next
day! The pastor and princess lived happily ever after.