Princess and the Pea

"Now it was plain that the lady must be a real Princess, since she had been able to feel the three little peas through the twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds. None but a real Princess could have had such a delicate sense of feeling."

Hans Christian Andersen, The Princess and the Pea

Puzzle Illustration: The Princess and the Pea, Edmund Dulac, from The Snow Queen and Other Stores by Hans Andersen, 1911, Public Domain

Benjamin Bunny and the Cat

"She sat there for five hours."

Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny

Pirates!

...in him we have a real, ranting, raging, roaring pirate per se—one who really did bury treasure, who made more than one captain walk the plank, and who committed more private murders than he could number on the fingers of both hands...

--Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates, 1921