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3	''Boots Who Made the Princess Say, That's a Story'' is a Norwegian FairyTale collected by [[Creator/AsbjornsenAndMoe Asbjørnsen and Moe]].
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5	A princess lied all the time. The king declared that whoever got her to say of a tale, "That's a story" would have her to wife and half the kingdom. Many people tried. Three brothers tried, and the first two failed, and the youngest, Boots, began. They trade fantastic stories about the size of their farms:
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7	->''"You haven't such a fine farm-yard as ours, I'll be bound; for when two shepherds stand, one at each end of it, and blow their ram's horns, the one can't hear the other."\
8	"Haven't we though!" answered Boots; "ours is far bigger; for when a cow begins to go with calf at one end of it, she doesn't get to the other end before the time to drop her calf is come."''
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10	Boots tells an enormous TallTale about an adventure, and concludes that he found the king cobbling shoes, and his mother boxed the king on the ears.
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12	->''"That's a story!" said the Princess; "my father never did any such thing in all his born days!"\
13	So Boots got the Princess to wife, and half the kingdom besides. ''
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15	Full text [[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Tales_from_the_Norse/Boots_who_made_the_Princess_say,_%22That%27s_a_Story%22 here]].
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18	!!Tropes included
19	* BlatantLies: Everything they say.
20	* EngagementChallenge: Getting the princess to say that something's a lie.
21	* FramingDevice: The story revolves about their tales.
22	* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: The reason why the princess loses the contest. The translation provided here doesn't really capture the joke too well; in the original Norwegian text, Boots finishes his story with how his mother boxed the King's ears so that his dandruff flew off -- whereupon the princess, somewhat indignantly, says: "That's a lie! My father never had dandruff!"
23	* RoyalBrat: The princess.
24	* RuleOfThree: Boots is the youngest of three.
25	* YoungestChildWins: Boots marries the princess.

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