Curiosities and wonders > Sleeping beauty of the wood

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court, and the little spaniel bitch which lay by
her on the bed.
Immediately on her touching them they all
tell asleep, that they might not wake before her
mistress, and that they might be ready to wait
upon her when she wanted them. The very spits
at the fire, as full as they could be of partridges
and pheasant, and every thing in the place, wheth¬
er animate or inanimate, fell asleep also.
All this was done in a moment; for fairies are
not long in doing their business
And now the king and queen, having .kissed
their child without waking her, went out of the
palace, and put forth a proclamation, that nobody
should come near it. This, however, was unne¬
cessary ; for in less than a quarter of an hour,
there got up all around the park such a vast num¬
ber of trees, great and small bushes, and bram¬
bles, twined one within the other, that neither
man nor beast could pass through, so that noth¬
ing could be seen but the very tops of the towers
of the palace, and not that too, unless it was a
good way off. Nobody doubted but the fairy
gave therein a very extraordinary sample of hor
art, that the princess, while she remained sleep-
ing, might have nothing to fear from any curious
people.
When a hundred years were gone and-pastj