Growing up without humor, the Princess becomes more and more morose, finally locking herself in her royal bedchamber and refusing to leave. The King in desperation decrees a Royal Laugh-off to make his daughter happy.

By always doing the right thing at the wrong time, Goofy eventually succeeds in making the princess laugh.

"The Laughing Prince: A Book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales" is a fascinating collection of fairy tales and folk tales, presented by an American folklorist Parker Fillmore to demonstrate the incredible vigor and the artistic inventiveness of the Jugoslav imagination to the western reader. The tradition of the Hungarian folk tales was greatly influenced by Oriental and Northern as well as Slavic myths, which have made it incredibly rich and exciting to the reader of any time—first published in 1921.