Curiosities and wonders > Sleeping beauty of the wood

He left the government ot the kingdom to the
qn een his mother, and earnestly recommended to
her the care of his wife and children.
As soon as he was departed, the queen sent
for her daughter-in-law to come to her, and then
■sent her to a country house among the woods,
that she might with more ease and secrecy grati¬
fy her inclinations.
Some few days after she went to this country
house herself, and calling for the clerk of the
kitchen, she said to him, I have a mind to eat
little Morning for my dinner to-morrow.
Ah 1 madam, cried the clerk of the kitchen, in
a very great surprise. No excuse, replied she,
interrupting him; I will have it so;—and this
she spoke in the tone of an ogress, seeming to
have a strong desire to taste fresh meet. And
to make the dish more delicious, added she, I will
cat her with sauce made of Robert.
This poor man, knowing very well how dan¬
gerous it was to play tricks with ogresses, took
his great knife and went up into little Morning’s
chamber. She was then four years old, and came
up to him leaping and laughing, to take him
about the neck, and asked him for some sugar-
candy, on which he began to weep, and the knife
fell out of his hand; and he w'eit into the back
yard and killed a lamb, which he dressed with