When the prince was traveling, he met a beggar who looked like him. He asked the beggar's mother whether she had been a maid-in-waiting before. The beggar said that his father used to be a coachman. W

When the prince was traveling, he met a beggar who looked like him. He asked the beggar's mother whether she had been a maid-in-waiting before. The beggar said that his father used to be a coachman. What do you mean? The prince found himself very similar to a beggar, very similar-we usually understand that people who are related by blood look very similar. So the prince asked the beggar's mother if she had been a maid-in-waiting. )

The beggar heard the prince's sarcasm and fought back-his father was a coachman (meaning that the prince might be the beggar's father)-the son of the coachman and the queen. )

This is a fable in itself, perhaps because of its own nature and evolved into a joke.