Once upon a time
Please, please be a little girl we can dote on, they thought to themselves. We will give her sweets and treats and lovely little dresses and trinkets!
One day, the king announced: “If our thirteenth child is a girl, I will banish her twelve brothers and we will all forget
It was a strong and thoughtless thing to say about the boys.
The queen was extremely upset by the king’s heartless plan. For a week, she cried
Of course her sons knew nothing about it and when one of them asked her, she told the truth: "I love each and every one of you, but your father wants you banished."
The queen, who wanted to protect her sons at all costs, begged them to run away from the kingdom as soon as possible. She gave them the fastest ponies and gave them enough gold
"Keep an eye for a flag flying from the tower. If it's white, it's a boy. If it's red, it's a girl. I'll have a man take you to a cave to hide until a flag flies."
The cave was high, up inside a rocky mountain, and when they had finally
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