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"In the capital, the honest man is walking about the streets toward the castle, because he has never seen a place like it in his life. As he approaches, he notice the princess looking down at him. He looks first left, then right, as he is not sure the princess is looking ath him. When he realizes she is, he is about to call out to her until he trips and falls face down in a giant puddle of mud. This puddle of mud puts other mud puddles to shame. It is huge, and sticky and could hold four grown men at once.

The mouse, beetle and catfish see this and take pity on the poor man. He was kind to them when he did not have to be, and so they decided to return his kindness by trying to help him up from the puddle. So now you have a catfish pulling him one way, a mouse whispering for him to rise, and a beetle pulling him another way while the man himself is struggling helplessly to get out of the mud." Eli says, showing Luna the man's desperate struggle to save face.

And then Luna will hear a peal of laughter in the story that may or may not sound much like her own.

"Laughter, genuine laughter rang across the rooftops as the princess witnessed the sight before her! She laughed so loudly that the king came running unable to believe his ears. When he reached her, she pointed at the spectacle in the street and told her father that she wanted to marry that man immediately." Eli says.

So the king had the honest man brought in, but something about his was different after the mud. Where once he'd been nondescript and barely worth notice, he now stood tall, proud and handsome, looking much like a prince.

Safe to say, the Princess and the honest man lived happily ever after, and he made her laugh ever single day of their lives." Eli says.

"The end."

The Prince in the story carries the princess away and he might bear a passing resemblance to Eli.