Once upon a time there was a princess, and she had everything she could wish for, and a great deal more.Near the palace was a cottage, in which lived a poor little tiny woman, all alone.And one day, the princess stopped to the cottage, and said to the tiny woman, “Let me see what you keep there.”And the tiny woman opened a very secret place, and showed the princess a shadow.It was the shadow of someone who gone by many years ago.“And you watch over this everyday?” said the princess.“Yes” said the tiny woman, “because no one so good or kind had ever passed that way ever since”.And then the princess realized that for all her gold, and silver, and diamonds and rubies, she had nothing so precious to her as that shadow was to that tiny woman.