It is the wedding of a prince with a Russian
princess. There is a banquet followed by a ball and finally a display of
fireworks.
A page gets his salary doubled by praising the perfect beauty of the
princess in public. A rich man’s joke is always laughed at whether there is meaning or not. Likewise, the king plays the flute and the page through the virtue called flattery once again gets a hike in salary. The human tendency to flatter those in authority and thus make a means of living is deftly described.
The princess is unfamiliar with
fireworks display. Therefore, a royal expert in fireworks is summoned. The story is set in such a way that related kinds of fire works begin chattering as to how they would delight the gathering. Through their talk various virtues and vices of human beings are expressed. While most are aware of their self-worth and are practical in approach, one particular firework, - a rocket, calls itself ‘remarkable’ and boasts about being born of parents with a noble genealogy. Pride enters, it keeps lamenting about all the goodness inherent and goes to the extent of saying that the prince was lucky because of him. On the contrary, the other kind of fireworks thought that they were fortunate to be used on the wedding day of the prince. All his relatives go up into the air and perform well except the rocket who only gets derogatory remarks. Finally no one witness its performance and it dies mourning that he knew of being remarkable. Such is the lives and end of those people who keep boasting about themselves and keep crying over what they are not instead of being bothered about what they are meant for and how profitable they could be to those around.