Whenever the princess visited the townspeople they would salute her with hotdogs-on-a-stick and offer her fresh-baked hotdog bread or cool hotdogs dipped in cheesesauce. Everybody loved the princess and the princess loved everybody (especially when they gave her hotdogs).
One day the princess was walking through the market, chewing on a steaming hotdog sandwich, when she spotted a new sign that said "Danny's Dandy Dresses: What Will You Wear?" The man standing next to the sign was yelling to the people passing by. "Danny can make a dress from anything! Yes, sir! Anything you name, Danny can make a dress from it. Silk? No problem. Wheat? No problem. Oak Leaves? No problem! Bring Danny your material and you will have the dress you have always desired!"
The princess was delighted. "Hotdogs!" She yelled to Danny the Dressmaker. "I want a dress made of hotdogs!"
Danny was taken aback. No one had ever asked for a dress made of hotdogs. "Dresses can't be made from hotdogs, silly girl," Danny laughed. He didn't know who she was, and he turned away to call for more customers.
The princess was very sad that she couldn't have a hotdog dress, and she began to cry. All the merchants around noticed the princess crying and were angry at the dressmaker for making their princess sad.
They circled around the dressmaker and told him to make a hotdog dress for the princess. "You said you could make s dress from anything," they said. "The princess asked for a hotdog dress, so you should make a hotdog princess dress for her."
The dressmaker was surprised. He didn't know she was the princess, but he didn't want to seem stupid so he pretended that he did. "The princess? Well of course I'm going to make her a hotdog princess dress. I was just testing your loyalty to your royalty. I will have the hotdog princess dress ready in three days," he declared.
Everybody cheered and the princess ran home to tell her parents.
On the morning of the third day the princess rushed from the palace to the market to find the dressmaker. The whole village was already there, anxious to see what Danny the Dressmaker had made for their princess.
When Danny opened the curtain to his shop, there was a beautiful brown princess gown hanging on the wall. It had a big skirt that poofed out in a wide circle, made with layers and layers of long hotdogs, each looped hotdog wider than the last. It had hotdog lace and hotdog buttons, and it even came with a matching hotdog hat.
The princess was so excited that she immediately ran into the shop to try it on. Danny the dressmaker had done his job well. It fit the princess perfectly. She gave Danny a big hug and announced to the whole town that she loved her hotdog princess dress.
After that, everybody wanted Danny to make dresses for them, too (but not out of dogs). Danny the Dressmaker became the most famous dressmaker in the kingdom. He travelled around the kingdom making dresses out of licorice and dresses out of caramel and dresses out of pasta. But every year on the Proncess's birthday he would always come back and make her a new hotdog princess dress.
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