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The Pickle Princess (a story)
by Mary Ellen Smith
Princess Pickle made a mad face. You see, she is a sour pickle and does not like too many things or too many people. Also, she did not like her new pickle princess crown that day and so had her crown makers make her a new one and then a new one and then a new one!
She just would make a sour face every time she tried on a new crown. “I don’t like this one!” she would scream in a sour voice.
Very soon, she had a room full of crowns that she had thrown away. It was so full; the crowns were stacked all the way up to the castle ceiling!
Then one day while she was trying on a new crown, she happened to look out her window and noticed that she had a new neighbor moving into the castle next door.
“Humph!” she sourly humphed. “New neighbors! I don’t like new neighbors!” She looked in the mirror and exclaimed, “And I don’t like this new crown! Make me another!” She yelled to the royal pickle crown makers.
Later that day the pickle princess was walking her little short pickle dog Dill, when she happened upon her new neighbor Prince Gergen Pickle.
“Well good day and happy sweet salutations to you!” the prince sweetly said as he smiled a sweet pickle smile.
He tipped his princely crown and bowed grandly waiting for her reply.
But the sour pickle princess scrunched up her pickle nose at him and turned right around and stomped back into the castle with her little dog Dill following behind her.
“Have a nice day then!” the prince ever so sweetly called after her.
Everyday after that when the princess walked her dog Dill, the prince would be waiting by the fence to greet her with his sweet smile.
Finally, exasperated at his sweetness, the princess said to him one day, “Really Prince Gergen, must you be so terribly sickening sweet? “
“Oh pretty pickle,” the prince said. “Why must you be so sour?”
“Nobody loves me.” Said the sour pickle princess.
“But I.” Replied the sweet pickle prince. “But I.”
And with that he gave her a little sweet kiss that turned her sourness into sweetness and when he asked her to marry him and live happily ever after, the formerly sour princess said sweetly, “I will sweet prince.”
And so the pickle princess and the pickle prince were married and to the great and happy surprise of the royal crown makers, the princess loved the sweet new crown that her royal pickle crown makers had made her for her wedding day.
And what do you suppose she did with all of those crowns that she had sourly discarded and piled all the way up to the castle ceiling? Well, she very sweetly gave them out to all the pickles in the land and made every pickle, pickle princesses and princes that happy sweet day!08/18/2007 Author's Note: a story I wrote for the grandgirls....my little dill pickle Ky is the inspiration.
Posted on 08/18/2007
Copyright © 2025 Mary Ellen Smith
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Jean Mollett on 08/18/07 at 06:14 PM Hi Mary Ellen,
I love it, it's so cute and precious. I know the grandkids did too. I love dill pickles and homemade bread and butter sweet pickles. I've only found one store bought sweet pickle that taste pretty good. The taste isn't the taste as homemade. |
| Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 08/18/07 at 11:56 PM Well, I do love a mix of sweet and sour and this blending makes a perfect grandchild's story! Nicely done. |
| Posted by Elizabeth Jill on 08/19/07 at 02:17 PM Yummy! |
| Posted by Quentin S Clingerman on 08/19/07 at 08:32 PM Fun! And much more a read aloud to the younguns than "Peter picked a peck of pickled peppers... ." LOL!! |
| Posted by Melissa Arel on 08/20/07 at 05:23 PM What a wonderful story! |
| Posted by Charles E Minshall on 08/24/07 at 04:42 PM A sweet and sour story that is a lot of fun Mar...Charlie |
| Posted by Alison McKenzie on 08/24/07 at 07:21 PM OMGosh, this is WAAAAAY too cute for words. Can I borrow it for my grandbabies (when I have them someday???). I love it, I love it!!!! You HAVE to make this into a book, and it would be SOOOOO easy to illustrate. Infact, my 16 year old son is quite an amazing artist who could do the job quite nicely....LOL!!!! |
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