The Princess Alicia was plainly bored. A baron stood behind her chair and two highborn ladles waited at either hand to obey her slightest summons. Later when a favorable opportunity presented itself Princess Alicia ran away. The heart of the Princess Alicia urged her to stop and play in the mud with some peasant children. For you see the Princess Alicia was only eleven years old, her heart was very like the heart of any other little child and she had never played in the dirt before in her life. How Alicia brought her little ragamuffin friends back to the palace unobserved while the royal guards at the command of her distracted king were searching high and low for her; how they crept up to the nursery and made a magnificent mud pie with the earth in the flower pots there and finally how the king found them at this plebeian amusement and sternly sentenced the little peasants to come every day to play with the Princess Alicia, can best be discovered by seeing this really charming little play.