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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Sleeping Beauty, by C. S. Evans
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+Title: The Sleeping Beauty
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+Author: C. S. Evans
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+Illustrator: Arthur Rackham
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+Release Date: May 12, 2008 [EBook #25451]
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+THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
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+[Illustration]
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+ THE�SLEEPING
+   BEAUTY
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+  TOLD�BY�C�S�EVANS
+  AND�ILLUSTRATED�BY
+   ARTHUR�RACKHAM
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+  LONDON�WILLIAM�HEINEMANN
+  PHILADELPHIA�J�B�LIPPINCOTT�Co
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+LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 1920.
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+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration: BRIAR ROSE]
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+
+[Illustration: ONCE UPON A TIME]
+
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+
+
+THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I
+
+
+ONCE upon a time there were a King and a Queen who were very unhappy
+because they had no children. Everything else that the heart could wish
+for was theirs. They were rich; they lived in a wonderful palace full of
+the costliest treasures; their kingdom was at peace, and their people
+were prosperous. Yet none of these things contented them, because they
+wanted a little child of their own to love and to care for, and though
+they had been married several years, no child had come to them.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Every day the King would look at the Queen and say: "Ah, if we only had
+a little child," and the Queen would look at the King and sigh, and they
+were both very miserable about it. Then they would put on their golden
+crowns and sit side by side on their thrones, while lords and ladies
+and ambassadors from other lands came to pay them homage, and they had
+to smile with their lips for the sake of politeness, but there was no
+joy in their hearts. And that is one of the greatest disadvantages of
+being a King or a Queen, that one has always to hide one's feelings.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Now it happened one day that the Queen went to her bath, and having
+dismissed her ladies, she descended the marble steps into the water
+and began idly to play with some wild rose-petals which had fallen into
+the water. All of a sudden she heard a croaking voice that said: "O
+Queen, be cheerful, for the dearest wish of your heart will be granted
+you."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Who is that?" cried the Queen, a little frightened, for she could see
+nobody.
+
+"Look behind you," croaked the voice, "and do not be afraid, for I come
+only to bear you good tidings."
+
+So the Queen looked behind her, and there was a great frog who looked at
+her with its big round eyes.
+
+Now the Queen was afraid of frogs, because they are cold and clammy, but
+she was very polite by nature as well as breeding, so she did not show
+her dislike, though she could not help shrinking back a little.
+
+"And do you tell me, Master Frog," said she, "that I shall have the wish
+of my heart, and do you know what that wish may be?"
+
+"It is to have a little small child of your own," said the Frog; and the
+Queen nodded.
+
+"Very well," the Frog went on, "do you see the green leaves of that
+almond tree on the branch by the window?"
+
+"I do," replied the Queen wonderingly.
+
+"Those green leaves will fade," said the Frog, "and the winter winds
+will blow them away. Then the branch will be bare, but in spring-time,
+before the leaves come again, it will be covered with pink blossom, and
+that blossom you shall show to a baby lying at your breast."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Queen gave a cry of joy. A ray of sunlight came through the trees,
+dazzling her eyes so that she had to close them for a moment. When she
+opened them again the frog had gone, and nothing was to be seen but the
+dainty rose-petals floating on the surface of the water.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II
+
+
+THOSE were wonderful tidings to be spoken by a frog who came no one knew
+whence and went no one knew whither. But the Queen believed that the
+prophecy would prove true, and she was right, for when the Spring time
+came again and the almond blossom was pink upon the bough, she gave
+birth to a little daughter who was so beautiful that nobody had ever
+seen her like.
+
+Now what joy there was in the hearts of everybody in the palace! The
+King was so excited that he went into council in his dressing-gown
+instead of his royal robe, and he did not care a bit when his courtiers
+smiled. There was coming and going in all the halls and corridors.
+Couriers on swift horses were sent out to bear the glad news to the most
+distant parts of the kingdom. All the bells in the churches were rung;
+flags were put out in the houses and streamers were hung across the
+roadways. Then the cannons were fired, bang, bang, bang, to tell the
+people that everybody was to have a holiday, so that all, from the
+highest to the lowest, might rejoice in their Queen's happiness.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Never was there such a beautiful child," said the King, looking down at
+his little daughter as she lay in her mother's arms. He wanted very much
+to nurse her, but this could not be allowed, because men are so clumsy
+with babies.
+
+"What shall her name be?" said the King. And he suggested all the
+grandest names he could call to mind, for he thought that such a
+wonderful child must certainly have a name to suit. But the Queen would
+have none of them.
+
+"She shall be called Briar-Rose," said the Queen; and so it was
+arranged.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A few weeks later the christening took place. That was a splendid
+ceremony to be sure, for all the lords and ladies of the kingdom were
+present in their richest dresses, together with princes and ambassadors
+from distant countries. The little Princess was as good as gold all the
+time. She did not cry once, but opened her big blue eyes and smiled at
+the glittering company as though she understood everything that was
+going on.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Outside the cathedral the roads were crowded with people waiting to see
+the guests come and go. The carriages extended for nearly a mile, and as
+they drove away, headed by the royal coach, in which the Queen sat with
+the Princess Briar-Rose in her arms, the spectators took off their hats
+and shouted and cheered. Some of the little boys perched themselves on
+the branches of trees and the lamp-posts in order to get a better view,
+and I have been told that there was one poor woman who saw nothing at
+all, because her boy tried to climb up to an inn sign, where he dangled
+in such a dangerous position that his poor old mother had to stand with
+her back to the procession, holding on to his legs in a terrible state
+of anxiety lest he should fall.
+
+At the palace, a magnificent feast had been prepared.
+
+Now it was the custom in those days, when a King's child was christened,
+for all the fairies in the country to be invited to the christening
+feast. Each fairy was bound to bring a gift, so of course it stood to
+reason that the royal child would have everything that the heart could
+possibly desire.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+There were thirteen fairies in the King's realm, but one of them lived
+in a lonely place on the outskirts of the kingdom. There, for the last
+fifty years, she had shut herself up in a ruined tower with only a black
+cat to keep her company, and as she kept herself to herself, everybody
+had forgotten her very existence. The result was that she was not
+invited to the christening feast, and though she had nobody but herself
+to blame for this, she was very angry about it. The truth of the matter
+is that she was always a miserable, sour creature, with no love or
+kindness in her heart, and nobody missed her because she had never given
+anybody any reason to care for her.
+
+Well, the guests assembled in the banqueting hall of the palace and the
+feast began.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III
+
+
+THE King and the Queen sat on a dais at the end of the banqueting hall,
+and above them in a little gallery there was a band of fiddlers and
+flute-players. On either side of the royal pair sat the twelve fairy
+godmothers, six on the right hand and six on the left. In front of each
+fairy was a golden plate and a golden casket made to hold her knife,
+fork and spoon. These caskets were beautifully carved and engraved, and
+each one was of a different shape. One was in the form of a ship,
+another of a shell, a third in the form of a castle with turrets, and so
+on; nothing more beautiful could be imagined, for they had all been
+specially made for the occasion by the cleverest goldsmiths in the
+kingdom, and they were the King's presents to the fairy godmothers. He
+felt very proud when the fairies spoke admiringly of these caskets and
+said that they would be pleased to accept them.
+
+Below the dais were six long tables for the guests, and there was only
+just room between the tables for the servants to pass, so you may judge
+how crowded the room was. Such a glittering of silks, such a flashing of
+jewels, such a dazzle and splendour had never been seen since the time
+of the King's coronation, and all the guests were laughing and talking
+merrily. The court painter was there, of course, to make a picture of
+the gorgeous scene, and was kept so busy sketching on his tablets that
+he had no time to get any food, though probably he had a good meal
+afterwards.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+And the nice things there were to eat! There were:
+
+        Force-meat balls flavoured with rare spices from the East;
+        Sardines from Sardinia;
+        Tunny fish from the Mediterranean and Sturgeon from Russia;
+        Steaming boars' heads with lemons in their mouths;
+        Turkeys, peacocks and swans;
+        Ortolans;
+        Wonderful roasts and delicious stews;
+        Roe deer and Bears' hams;
+
+[Illustration]
+
+        Sweets in all sorts of curious shapes, as, for
+          instance, cakes like castles with little men
+          made of sweet-stuff for sentries on the
+          battlements, each complete in gilded armour and
+          with a halberd over his shoulder. (A rare
+          sight!) And eagles carved of ice hovering over
+          silver dishes filled with apricots.
+
+Then followed the smaller dishes:
+
+        Tiny cakes as white and delicate as ladies'
+          fingers;
+
+        Birds' nests made of spun sugar (and in the
+          nests were eggs of marsh-mallow, and in each
+          egg was a tiny chicken made of caramel!);
+
+        Figs and dates from the desert;
+
+        Other fruits, in and out of season;
+
+        Syrups and preserves fetched from the four
+          corners of the world;
+
+        Wines cooled in snow from the distant
+          mountains.
+
+One might fill pages merely by setting down the names of all the
+delicacies.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Each dish was brought in by the servants in a kind of procession, headed
+by the Master-Cook, looking as grand and solemn as an archbishop, for he
+was a grave and dignified person, and of course he had a great
+responsibility. The guests were served by little page-boys of noble
+birth, dressed in the liveries of their masters, and these pages handed
+the dishes and the wines most politely on their bended knees as they had
+been taught to do.
+
+So the guests enjoyed themselves, and the fiddlers played, and the King
+laughed at everything everybody said, because he was in a mighty good
+humour, and the bright afternoon sun, shining through the western
+windows, lighted up the rich hangings on the walls, and flashed upon the
+jewels on fair ladies' fingers, and fell upon the marble pavement in a
+pool of gold.
+
+And then, you know, when the merriment was at its height, something
+happened! There was a sudden cry, and a harsh voice, like the croaking
+of a raven, sounded through the room.
+
+"Be merry, my lords and ladies," cried the voice. "Laugh while you may,
+but remember that tears may follow laughter."
+
+A hush fell upon all the brilliant assembly. The Queen turned pale and
+shuddered. The King rose hurriedly from his place, and he and all the
+guests turned to look at the strange figure that had suddenly appeared
+in the doorway.
+
+They saw an old woman bent almost double with age, her grey head with
+matted hair sunk deep between her shoulders. Her face was white and
+twisted with anger, and her green eyes flashed spitefully.
+
+Slowly she advanced towards the dais, and stretching out her arm,
+pointed her finger at the gold plates and the gold caskets set before
+the fairy godmothers. "There's one," said she, with a harsh laugh,
+"there's two, there's twelve! Did you not know, O King, that there were
+thirteen wise women in your kingdom, and the thirteenth the wisest and
+most powerful of all? Where, then, is the plate and the casket set for
+me?"
+
+The King began to make excuses, imploring the angry old fairy to forgive
+him for his neglect, and begging her to sit down and join them in their
+festivities. "For," said he, "I am sure you are very welcome."
+
+"Is it so, indeed?" said the thirteenth fairy. "I am not too late, then,
+though the feast is all but done. I shall eat off silver while my
+sisters eat off gold, and there is no curiously-shaped casket for me. No
+matter, I am content, because I am in time, and I shall dower the
+Princess with the gift which I have brought for her!" And here the
+spiteful creature uttered another of her sneering laughs, which made the
+blood of all the guests run cold.
+
+By dint of much coaxing the King at last managed to persuade her to sit
+down, and the feast proceeded. But a chill had been cast over the
+assembly, and nothing was quite the same as it had been before. The old
+crone muttered and mouthed over her food, now and again smiling to
+herself as though she were cherishing some secret and evil triumph. The
+other fairies cast anxious glances at her, for they feared her malice,
+and the youngest fairy of all, who happened to be seated at the end of
+the table, presently rose up quietly from her place and, stealing away,
+hid herself behind the arras. And nobody saw her go, nor did a single
+person remark upon her absence.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV
+
+
+AND now came the time for the most important part of the ceremony, when
+the fairy godmothers should declare their gifts to the royal child. All
+this time the little Princess Briar-Rose had been quietly sleeping in
+her cradle in the nursery, watched over by an old servant who had tended
+her mother as a child. Now the King gave orders for the baby to be
+brought into the banqueting hall. The guests ceased their laughter and
+talk, and the musicians laid by their instruments.
+
+So the sleeping child was brought and placed in her mother's arms. How
+tenderly she clasped the baby to her breast, bending over it as though
+to shield it from all harm. So sweet a sight should have touched the
+hardest heart, and indeed there was only one person in the room who
+remained unmoved, and that was the spiteful and jealous fairy, who
+looked up and bared her yellow teeth in a sneering grin.
+
+"Queen," said she, "your face is pale and your lips tremble. What is it
+that you fear on this day of the giving of gifts?"
+
+But the Queen shuddered and was silent.
+
+Then a fairy rose in her place and said--
+
+"I will begin. My gift to the Princess Briar-Rose is the gift of Beauty.
+She shall have eyes like stars, and hair as bright as the sunshine of
+the spring day on which she was born, and cheeks as fresh and fair as
+the petals of the flower from which she takes her name. None shall
+surpass her in loveliness."
+
+Then the second fairy rose in her turn and said: "After Beauty, Wit. The
+Princess shall be cleverer than any ordinary mortal could ever hope to
+be."
+
+"I give her Virtue," said the third. And the Queen nodded her head and
+smiled, for though she esteemed beauty and cleverness, she knew that
+neither was of any worth without goodness of heart.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+So all the fairies in turn named the gift which they had brought for
+Briar-Rose. The fourth said that whatever the Princess put her hand to,
+she should do with the most exquisite grace; the fifth, that she should
+sing like a nightingale; the sixth that she should dance as lightly as
+a fairy, and so on until she had nearly all the virtues and
+accomplishments which even a King might desire for his daughter. But as
+yet, the spiteful old fairy had not said a word.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+At last she rose and cast an evil glance round.
+
+"Have you all finished?" said she. "Hear, then, my wish. On the day when
+she reaches her fifteenth birthday, the Princess shall prick her finger
+with the spindle of a spinning-wheel, and shall immediately die!"
+
+This terrible prophecy made the whole company shudder. The Queen gave a
+cry and hugged the sleeping baby still closer to her breast.
+
+"No, no! Have pity!" she cried. "Call down your dreadful fate on my head
+if you will, but do not harm this innocent child."
+
+At this mournful appeal there was hardly one of the guests who could
+keep from tears, but the old crone only mumbled to herself as though she
+were uttering a spell. Then the King leapt to his feet, his hand at the
+jewelled hilt of the dagger that hung at his girdle. In another moment
+he might have stretched the wicked creature lifeless at his feet, but
+before he could draw the weapon from its sheath, another voice arrested
+him.
+
+"Stay your hand, O King, lest even worse befall. No mortal may strike at
+a fairy and go unpunished. And, for the rest, take comfort, for your
+daughter shall not die!"
+
+Then the twelfth fairy stepped out from behind the arras where she had
+been hidden. "My gift is still to come," she continued. "As far as I
+can, I will undo the mischief which my sister has done. It is true that
+I have not the power to prevent altogether what she has decreed. The
+Princess shall, indeed, prick her finger with the spindle of the
+spinning-wheel on the day when she attains her fifteenth year; but
+instead of dying she shall fall into a deep sleep; and this sleep shall
+last for a hundred years, and when that time is past, a King's son shall
+come to waken her."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V
+
+
+SO the worst was averted, but the fate of the poor little Princess was
+still terrible enough, and it was only to be expected that the King
+should do his best to prevent the prophecy from coming to fulfilment.
+
+The first thing he did was to summon all the magicians of his own and
+neighbouring countries, promising a rich reward to the one who could
+show him a way to defeat the old fairy's malice. The magicians came in
+scores, some with long beards reaching to their feet, some without any
+beards at all, some with bald heads, and some with matted hair that
+looked as though it had not been combed for centuries. For days there
+were so many magicians about the palace that they were commoner than
+cats, and it was impossible to enter any room without surprising one or
+the other of them, sitting in deep reflection and looking as wise as
+only a magician can look. But nothing came of their thinking, and one
+after the other they gave up the task and departed, having first asked
+for their travelling expenses.
+
+At last there came a wizard who was wiser and more venerable than all
+the rest, and when he heard what was required of him he said he would go
+home and consult his secret books which contained the magic lore of all
+the ages, and which had been written by the greatest of all the
+magicians, Merlin himself.
+
+Home, then, he went, to his cell, which was in a rocky cliff on the side
+of a mountain, and having uttered the word of power which unlocked the
+massive door, he entered and prepared to begin his researches.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Now the books of magic lore which Merlin had written were in many
+volumes, and everything in them was set down in alphabetical order, so
+that it could be found easily. The old wizard, therefore, turned first
+of all to the word _Princess_. Five hundred pages were devoted to this
+subject, and, truly, there was a great deal of very interesting
+information. As thus:--
+
+    PRINCESS: How to transform Goosegirl into.
+
+        Spell for causing Princess to be surrounded
+        with high walls of bronze, which may by no
+        means be broken down except by the notes of a
+        certain trumpet (_q.v._).
+
+(Now _q.v._ are the first letters of two magic words which are to be
+found in all dictionaries and encyclop�dias to this day).
+
+     PRINCESS: Enchanted ring for.
+
+        A new and improved method by which she may be
+        changed into a fawn together with any members
+        of her family according to desire, and all of
+        them transformed back again into their proper
+        shape.
+
+     PRINCESS: An excellent device for causing a
+        Princess to grow tall or short by eating of a
+        mushroom, with directions how to find the place
+        where the mushroom grows, and precautions to be
+        taken lest by over-much nibbling she disappear
+        altogether.
+
+And so on. But there was never a word about how to prevent a Princess
+from falling into a charmed sleep through pricking her finger with the
+spindle of a spinning-wheel.
+
+So when he had read all through the five hundred pages, the venerable
+wizard turned to the word _Sleep_, in the hope that he would meet with
+better fortune.
+
+And there was much reliable information under this heading also. There
+were recipes for potent drugs which would cause sleep, and for still
+more potent drugs which would prevent people from going to sleep, and
+when the wizard came to this last he cried out eagerly, for he thought
+that he had succeeded in his quest, until he read on and discovered that
+the spell described was only for use on wicked Queens who had shamefully
+ill-used their step-children. It is very easy to make a mistake in
+magic, for it is a most complicated science.
+
+By the time he had read through the two hundred pages devoted to the
+word _Sleep_, the venerable wizard was very uneasy, but he was a
+persevering person and he did not abandon his endeavours. Merlin's wise
+books having failed him, he cast about for other means to learn what he
+desired, and consulted his oracle.
+
+Now his oracle was a stuffed crocodile hanging from the ceiling, and a
+voice came from it which told him to repeat the magic formula.
+
+The magic formula is a sentence made up of all the sounds that are left
+out of ordinary speech, and it is a fearsome thing to listen to. It is
+also very exhausting to say, and after the venerable wizard had repeated
+it, he was obliged to rest for several hours. Then he rose again and
+drew pentagons on the rocky floor of his cave, and crossed triangles and
+circles bordered with all the signs of the Zodiac. And he stood in the
+middle of the pentagons and the crossed triangles and the circles and
+went through all sorts of strange and secret rites, but all to no
+purpose.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+But still he would not give up trying; and he went to mysterious places
+in the woods and gathered strange herbs in the dark of the moon. And,
+returning home, he cast the herbs into a brazier and they burnt with
+flames of many colours, giving out clouds of dense smoke and a most
+horrible smell. Then, as these exercises did not bring him the result
+he desired, he gazed into crystals and poured ink into the palm of his
+hand, and did all the other things that he had learnt to do in all the
+years since he was apprenticed to magic as a very small boy.
+
+And just as he was going to give up the quest in despair, a thought came
+into his head, and he cried aloud for joy, for he knew he had discovered
+what he sought. This shows how even the most difficult things may be
+attained by perseverance and patience.
+
+At the top of his speed he hastened back to the palace and asked an
+audience of the King. This was immediately granted, for, to tell the
+truth, the King was awaiting his return with considerable anxiety.
+
+"Well," said he, "have you succeeded in finding a way?"
+
+"I have," answered the venerable wizard. "My arts have not failed me!"
+And he handed the King a piece of parchment on which were written the
+following words. They were written in Latin to make them look more
+important, but very likely it was not good Latin, for the venerable
+wizard had been apprenticed to his trade at an early age, and in
+consequence his classical education had been somewhat neglected. But
+this was the meaning of them:
+
+        Shall spindle prick?--then spindle burn,
+        No thread weave and no wheel turn;
+        If there's no spindle and there's no wheel,
+        Then no finger the spindle can feel.
+
+The King slapped his thigh for joy. "Why, of course!" said he. "How is
+it that I did not myself think of such a simple solution? It seems to
+me, Wizard, that you have easily earned your thousand crowns!"
+
+"Ah, Majesty," the wizard made answer, "all things are simple when once
+you know them."
+
+And in this he was quite right.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI
+
+
+THE King lost no time in putting the wizard's counsel into effect. The
+very next day he caused a proclamation to be written, and ordered copies
+of it to be fixed on all the church doors, and in all the public places
+of every town in his kingdom. This is the way the proclamation read:
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  WHEREAS a certain malicious fairy, forgetful of the
+    duties she owes to the most high and puissant King
+    and Queen, rightful sovereigns of these realms, and
+    to the Princess Briar-Rose, their dearly loved daughter,
+    has, of malice aforethought, and with intent to work
+    grievous bodily harm to the person of the said Princess,
+    in the presence of the said most puissant Sovereigns
+    and of divers of their loyal subjects made and uttered
+    a prophecy, to wit: that the said Princess shall in her
+    fifteenth year prick her finger with the spindle of a
+    spinning-wheel, and that a certain dire misfortune
+    shall fall upon her because of that injury, to the sorrow
+    of her loving parents: NOW BE IT DECREED
+    That all spinning-wheels or instruments of spinning
+    whatsoever, in the possession of any subjects of the
+    King's most excellent Majesty, whether they be
+    worked by hand or by treadle or by any other device,
+    together with all spindles, shuttles, bobbins, and all
+    other accessories or appurtenances thereunto belonging,
+    shall forthwith be rendered up to the officers of the
+    King's most excellent Majesty appointed to receive
+    them. AND BE IT FURTHER DECREED
+    That if any person or persons fail to observe or obey
+    this edict or ordinance by unlawfully retaining any
+    instrument of spinning or accessory thereunto, such
+    persons shall be dealt with according to the full rigour
+    of the law, and shall suffer the penalty of death.
+
+                     Given under our royal hand and seal.]
+
+The issue of this proclamation caused a great deal of interest and
+excitement throughout the kingdom. All the people came out of their
+houses to gaze at it, for they had never seen its like before, and
+though very few of them knew how to read they realised that it must mean
+something very important. So they sent for clerks and scholars to read
+it to them, paying a penny apiece for the service, which pennies, the
+clerks and scholars, being usually extraordinarily needy persons, were
+very glad to earn. It usually took about three hours to read the
+proclamation and to explain it; and one must admit that it might have
+been expressed in fewer words. To do so, however, would not have been
+dignified, for this proclamation was what is called a legal instrument.
+
+The very next day into each town and village of the kingdom the King's
+officers came riding. Before them went a trumpeter who stopped at the
+head of each street and blew a loud call. Having thus commanded
+attention he marched past the houses calling in a loud voice:
+
+"Bring out your spinning-wheels. Bring out your spinning-wheels!"
+
+So the people brought them out, not without grumbling, for a
+spinning-wheel is a very useful thing to have in a house, and in those
+days people spun and wove their own cloth to make their clothes. But
+they were afraid to disobey the King's order.
+
+And the spinning-wheels were of all shapes and sizes, some of them new
+and some of them hundreds of years old, and there was hardly a house
+that did not possess one of some kind or another. They were all
+collected together and loaded into waggons and taken to the capital,
+where they were piled up into an immense heap in the public square.
+
+Then the King and Queen and all the court came out and watched while the
+big heap was set on fire. The people came out to watch too in their
+thousands, and a very fine sight it was to see the enormous flames
+shooting up into the air and to hear the crackle and hiss of the burning
+wood that sounded like the discharge of a hundred muskets.
+
+The King laughed aloud in his relief, and even the Queen smiled, while
+the little Princess Briar-Rose, who was held up to a window of the
+palace to see the bonfire, stretched out her arms to the pretty flames
+and crowed. But the people were not very much amused by the sight
+because they were their spinning-wheels which were being burnt.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"I've had my wheel for twenty years," said one woman, "and now I've none
+at all, and how on earth I can get along without it I don't know, with
+six growing lads to find breeches for!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Five silver crowns my wheel cost my good man last Candlemass," said
+another, "and there it goes up in flames and smoke."
+
+"What is a wheel if the burning of it saves our little Princess?" quoth
+a third. "Come, cheer up, Mother, the King has reason for what he does
+and he will not see us want."
+
+And this man was right. The King had no wish to oppress his subjects,
+for no sooner was the pile reduced to ashes than he caused another
+proclamation to be issued, saying that the owner of every spinning-wheel
+should be paid for its loss. And not only so, but the King told his
+merchants to buy spun yarn from neighbouring countries so that the
+people might be able to weave, even though they could not spin.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII
+
+
+THE little Princess Briar-Rose, of course, knew nothing of the strange
+events that had happened at the feast of her christening, and the King
+gave orders that nobody should even mention the subject to her. It is
+not a pleasant thing to know that the fairies have decreed that one
+shall fall asleep for a hundred years on one's fifteenth birthday, even
+though one is to be awakened by a handsome Prince at the end of that
+time. So all the lords-in-waiting and the ladies-in-waiting had to be
+very careful and discreet. If they told the Princess a story, they had
+to keep the word "spinning" out of it; and if they showed her a book
+they had to take pains to see it did not contain a picture of a
+spinning-wheel, or any reference to a distaff or spindle, lest she
+should ask what they were. The King's Customs officers, on the
+boundaries of the kingdom, had to examine every waggon-load of
+merchandise that came into the country for fear it should contain a
+spinning-wheel; and if anybody was found trying to smuggle one in he was
+brought before the judges and punished.
+
+By these devices the King felt certain that he had averted the fate laid
+upon his daughter.
+
+But the promises of the other wise women were fulfilled to the letter,
+for the young Princess grew up to be the most beautiful, gifted and
+gracious maiden in all the world. That, at any rate, was what everybody
+in the palace said, from the lords and ladies down to the scullions in
+the kitchen, and although people are inclined sometimes to flatter
+Royalty, in this case there was reason for their admiration.
+
+To begin with, the Princess was as lovely as a spring morning, with eyes
+of the purest, softest blue, and hair in which the rays of the sun
+seemed to be entangled. When she came into a room people stopped
+whatever they were doing to look at her, and everyone felt happier
+because she was there.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+And her cleverness! She never had any trouble with her letters or her
+multiplication table. She could cipher as easily as she could spell; she
+knew the history of her own country and of every country round it; and
+nobody could puzzle her with the hardest question in geography. She
+could sew and embroider, and knit and paint and draw; she could repeat
+poetry in five different languages; she studied mathematics and botany
+and astronomy and even law. In short, there was no end to her knowledge,
+and all because she had those fairies for her godmothers.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Besides this, there were all her other accomplishments; she could play
+on all sorts of musical instruments, as, for instance, fiddle and
+zither, large harp and jew's-harp, church organ and mouth organ, flute
+and penny-whistle, and even on the nursery comb; she could sing like a
+nightingale and dance like a fairy.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+And yet she was never conceited or puffed-up, as some good-looking and
+accomplished people are apt to be. On the contrary, she was always
+sweet-tempered and modest, and for this reason she was loved. People may
+admire good looks and a graceful deportment, and they may respect
+ability, but it is only sweetness of nature and goodness of heart that
+can win love. And these things were the gift of the third fairy.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+So the years passed, and at last came the day when the Princess
+Briar-Rose was fifteen years of age.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+What a day that was! Everybody came to wish her many happy returns, and
+she had so many presents that at least a dozen servants were kept busy
+unwrapping the parcels. The King gave her a white pony with a saddle of
+red velvet, and bridle and stirrups of gold, while the Queen's present
+was a beautiful and costly necklace of pearls. Even the boy who turned
+the spit in the kitchen brought her something, and though it was only a
+little wooden shoe which he had carved with his own hands, the Princess
+prized it just as much as though it had been made of gold.
+
+The only person who was not happy on the Princess's birthday was the
+Queen, and she went about with a pale face and a look of great anxiety.
+
+"Come, come, my love," said the King, "what is the matter with you?
+Surely you are not thinking of that foolish old prophecy!"
+
+"How can I help thinking about it?" the Queen answered. "I have not been
+able to get it out of my mind for fifteen years, and now that the day
+has come I am afraid."
+
+"Make your mind easy," said the King. "Nothing is going to happen. Why,
+there's not a spinning-wheel within a hundred miles. I have taken good
+care of that!" And he went away chuckling, to attend a meeting of his
+Cabinet. But the Queen shook her head.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Now while the King and Queen were talking, the Princess Briar-Rose was
+wandering about in the castle, visiting room after room, as she had done
+many times before. The castle was so big that a stranger might easily
+have been lost in its maze of stairways and corridors, but Briar-Rose
+knew every part of it quite well, from the great kitchens below ground,
+where on feast days a score of cooks prepared the dinner for hundreds of
+guests, to the topmost turret above the battlements, where the sentries
+kept watch with their pikes on their shoulders. There was only one part
+of the castle which Briar-Rose had never explored, and that was an
+ancient tower which rose from the eastern end. The door of that tower
+was always locked, and although the Princess had often tried to find
+the key she had never succeeded. The servants told her that the tower
+had not been inhabited for nearly a hundred years, and it had never been
+entered within the memory of anybody in the castle.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+To-day Briar-Rose flitted restlessly from place to place. She peeped
+into the kitchen and saw the kitchen boys turning the spits on which
+whole oxen were being roasted. Then she went into the empty throne room
+and saw the golden thrones side by side upon the dais, and the rich
+tapestry, glowing with all the colours of the rainbow, on the walls.
+After that she mounted to the battlements from which she could see over
+miles and miles of her father's kingdom, and not content with that, she
+ran up the staircases into the turrets and looked through their narrow
+slits of windows upon the courtyard below, so far down that the people
+walking therein seemed no bigger than mice. And then she came down again
+and continued her wanderings, searching in all sorts of out-of-the-way
+corners, until at last she found herself before the door of the ancient
+tower into which she had never been. And as she looked at the door, she
+gave a start of surprise and then a cry of joy.
+
+There was a key in the lock.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII
+
+
+IT was a rusty key, and Briar-Rose was afraid that she might not be able
+to turn it, but to her surprise it turned quite easily. The heavy door
+swung inward on its ancient hinges with many a creak and groan, and she
+found herself in a little dark room thickly carpeted with the dust of
+years. From this room a winding staircase led upward, and Briar-Rose was
+just about to climb the stair when a sudden noise made her start back in
+alarm.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+_Whirr!_ There was a beating of wings, a flurry and a scuffle, and past
+her face flew a dark shape, with gleaming, yellow eyes. It was only an
+owl who was hiding in the tower out of the sunlight, but he gave poor
+Briar-Rose a great fright, and she was in two minds whether to turn back
+or not, but the winding staircase looked very inviting and she wanted to
+see whither it led, so gathering up her skirts to avoid any creepy
+things that might be crawling about, she ran up the stairway as fast as
+she could, round and round until she reached the top. There she came
+upon another door.
+
+In this door also was a rusty key, and Briar-Rose turned it as easily as
+she had turned the first. Then she pushed open the door and entered.
+
+She found herself in a small room lighted by narrow windows. Beneath one
+of these windows was a couch, and in front of it sat an old woman with a
+spinning-wheel.
+
+"Good-morrow, Motherkin," said the Princess. "What are you doing?"
+
+"I am spinning, my pretty child," answered the old woman without ceasing
+her work.
+
+"Spinning?" asked the Princess. "Oh, do let me see! What is that thing
+which goes round so merrily?"
+
+"That is the spinning-wheel," said the old woman. "Why, child, you speak
+as though you had never seen such a thing before."
+
+"Indeed, I have not," said the Princess. "How interesting it is! I
+wonder whether I could do it as well as you. Will you let me try?"
+
+"Why, of course," said the old woman, "every young girl should know how
+to spin. Here you are, my dear," and she gave Briar-Rose the spindle.
+
+Now whether the Princess in her eagerness to seize the spindle grasped
+it too roughly, or whether it was just because the fairy had ordained
+that it should be so, I do not know, but anyhow the sharp iron point
+pricked her hand, and immediately she fell backward on to the couch in a
+deep sleep.
+
+And in that very moment sleep fell upon every man, woman and child in
+the castle, and upon every living thing within its gates. The King, who
+was sitting at the Council-board with his ministers, stopped speaking in
+the middle of a sentence, and remained with his mouth open, in the act
+of uttering a word, and nobody remarked the strangeness of his conduct,
+for all his ministers were asleep too, just as they sat. Outside the
+door the sentry leaned upon his pike. In the Queen's chamber the
+ladies-in-waiting fell into a profound slumber in the very midst of what
+they were doing--one as she was hemming a handkerchief, another over her
+embroidery, still another while she was talking to her parrot. The Queen
+slept in her chair, and a little page-boy who was singing fell asleep in
+the middle of a note.
+
+All through the castle the charmed slumber spread. Courtiers, officers,
+stewards, cooks, errand-boys, soldiers, beadles,--nay the very horses in
+the stables and the dogs in their kennels were stricken motionless as
+though they were dead. The flies ceased to buzz at the windows and the
+pigeons to coo upon the roof. In the great kitchen the scullions fell
+asleep as they were washing up the dishes, and a cook in the very act of
+boxing the ears of a kitchen-knave.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+But not for a hundred years would he feel that blow, or be able to utter
+the cry that was on the tip of his tongue. The dog fell asleep under
+the table as he was gnawing a bone; the cat in front of a mouse-hole,
+the mouse itself on the other side of the skirting-board, with its
+little sharp nose outstretched to sniff the air suspiciously. Even the
+spits which were turning at the fire, laden with partridges and
+pheasants cooking for the Princess's birthday feast--even they ceased to
+turn, and the very fire stopped flickering and the flames sank down.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A deep silence fell over the castle. In the fields the lambs ceased to
+bleat, the horses to neigh and the cows to low. The birds in the trees
+were silent. One moment the air was full of the music of their
+twittering; the next, all was as still as in a desert. The very wind
+dropped to sleep in the woods; not a leaf stirred, and the white clouds
+were motionless in the sky.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+So sleep fell upon the enchanted castle and upon all within it, because
+of the Princess Briar-Rose, who lay there on her couch in the ancient
+tower waiting till the hundred years should be past and the Prince
+should come to waken her.
+
+And all round the castle there grew up a hedge of thorn, tangled with
+ivy, woodbine and creeping plants, so dense that from a distance it
+seemed like a little wood. Higher and higher it grew, closing round the
+castle like a wall until all that could be seen was the top of the
+highest tower, and the flagstaff from which the royal standard hung limp
+and motionless.
+
+And the years went by, each with its changing seasons. Spring came and
+brought to the fields and woods outside the new life of leaf and flower.
+The trees awoke from their winter sleep and clothed themselves
+gloriously in green; the birds began to sing again and the swallows and
+martins built their nests under the eaves; children laughed and clapped
+their hands because they were happy in the bright sunshine, and old
+people felt their hearts filled with joy when they saw the mist of
+bluebells in the woods and the daffodils dancing in the breeze.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+But within the thorn hedge no life stirred, and neither flower nor tree
+answered the call of spring.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+As time went on, the people who were young when the palace was enchanted
+grew old and died, but they never forgot the prophecy that one of these
+days the sleeping Princess should awaken; and they told the story to
+their children, who told it in their turn, changing it a little because
+it was only a tale to them. And so, after many years, the legend spread
+abroad to neighbouring countries, and many a young prince dreamed that
+it was he who was destined to break the spell and waken the sleeping
+Princess.
+
+Now and again one would take the quest upon him and try to force his way
+through the thick hedge. But no one succeeded. The sharp thorns gripped
+the unhappy young men like clutching hands, and held them fast, so that
+they could neither go forward nor back, and they perished miserably.
+Their bones, whitened by the sun and wind, remained there as a warning
+for all to see, and the creeping plants grew over them.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IX
+
+
+A HUNDRED years passed away. At the end of that time it happened one day
+that a young Prince who was hunting in the neighbourhood caught sight of
+the towers of the enchanted castle rising above the dense forest. He had
+never been in that part of the country before, and had heard nothing of
+the story of the Sleeping Princess, so he asked the first people he met
+what those towers were, and to whom the castle belonged.
+
+Everybody told him a different tale. One said that it was an old castle
+haunted by spirits; another, that it was a meeting-place for all the
+witches and sorcerers in the land, who gathered there to practise their
+secret rites.
+
+"No, no," said a third. "That castle is the home of a giant, and all the
+people in these parts are very much afraid of him, so I have been told,
+because he steals their cattle and their crops, and even carries off
+their children to be his servants. And they cannot go to the rescue of
+those he has imprisoned in this way, because of the forest all round the
+castle, which is so dense that nobody can force his way through."
+
+And so they went on, one saying one thing, and one another, for each
+repeated what he had heard. At last an old peasant stepped forward.
+
+"Fifty years ago, my Prince," said he, "my father told me the story of
+that castle, and since he was born in these parts, I think it was the
+true story, and I will tell it you if you would like to hear it."
+
+The Prince nodded eagerly, and the old man went on:
+
+"My father said that years before he himself was born a King and Queen
+lived in the castle with their daughter, the most beautiful Princess
+that ever was seen. In some way or other they angered the fairies, who
+put a spell upon the place and upon every one within it, so that they
+fell into a deep sleep. My father said that this sleep would last a
+hundred years, but at the end of that time a King's son should come and
+waken the beautiful Princess and make her his bride."
+
+When the young Prince heard these words he felt his heart beat quickly.
+Something seemed to tell him that he and no other was the King's son who
+was destined to remove the spell, and he cried: "Show me the way to the
+castle, for I will take this adventure upon me."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+But the old man shook his head. "I have not yet told you all, my Prince.
+Many are the young men who have tried to force their way through the
+thick wood that guards the enchanted castle. Each of them thought that
+he, and he alone, was destined to awaken the Sleeping Beauty, and each
+of them set out with high hopes; but none of them all came back, and
+their bones, whitened by the wind and rain, lie among the thorns of the
+thick hedge, a fearful warning to the venturesome. I pray you,
+therefore, my Prince, do nothing rash, but think well before you take
+upon yourself this perilous quest."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"What," cried the Prince with flashing eyes, "shall I hold back when
+others have dared? This very hour I will attempt to enter the castle,
+and if I do not return, carry home the news of how I have died."
+
+Then without paying any heed to the words of those who would prevent him
+from rushing into such danger, the eager young man set out, his heart on
+fire with thoughts of love and glory. Nobody showed him the way, but he
+could see the towers of the castle rising above the distant wood, and
+when he entered the wood itself, and the towers were hidden, each path
+he took led him nearer to the place where he would be.
+
+At last he came to an open glade, and there before him was a tangled
+hedge of thorn, stretching in either direction as far as the eye could
+see.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER X
+
+
+AND now, as the Prince drew nearer, he could see that the story he had
+heard about that terrible place was true, for held in the tangle of
+briar were the bones of many unhappy young men who had tried to force
+their way through to the castle. Rags and tatters of their finery hung
+upon the great thorns that pointed menacingly like sharp claws. Here and
+there upon the ground beneath lay pieces of rusty armour, a helmet
+surrounded by a coronet of gold that once had belonged to a King's son,
+a shield with a Prince's device, a sword with jewel-encrusted hilt worth
+a King's ransom. There they lay, all disregarded among the blanched
+bones upon the grass, and the ground-ivy spread out its leaves to cover
+them.
+
+Not a sound broke the deep and awful silence. No bird sang, no insect
+droned; there was no scurry of woodland creatures among the leaves, no
+sigh of wind in the trees. In all that place only the thorn hedge seemed
+threateningly alive, waiting to destroy the intruder who should attempt
+to force the secret it guarded.
+
+Who would blame the Prince if for a moment his heart had almost failed
+him? There was no gap in that hedge, and the great thorns were sharp as
+dagger blades to stab his flesh. But if the Prince hesitated it was not
+for long. "Have I come so far to turn back now?" he thought. "These
+others who have died were brave men, and though they failed, with a
+courage as great as theirs I may succeed." And without wasting another
+moment the Prince began to force his way through the hedge.
+
+And now he noticed with surprise that those thorns which looked so sharp
+and cruel became soft as thistledown as soon as he touched them, and the
+trailing bramble branches did not entangle him but bent aside at his
+touch as though they had been stems of grass. The hedge opened before
+him, and as he went through it pink blossoms of wild roses bloomed on
+the branches, until the tangled wall became a mass of flowers.
+
+At last the Prince found himself on the other side of the hedge in the
+gardens of the castle. Before him he could see the high towers and
+turrets bathed in the fresh light of the morning sun, and as he hastened
+towards them he noticed that the gardens were as trim and tidy as though
+they had just been tended by the gardeners. There was no moss or weed
+upon the smooth paths, the turf on the lawns was as short and firm as
+though it had just been mown, and in the flower-beds everything was in
+the most careful order. Spring flowers were blooming there, but they
+bowed their heads upon their stalks, and even the trees seemed to hang
+their arms as though asleep.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Everywhere there was the same deep silence. The air, which should have
+been full of the twittering of birds, was heavy and languorous. There
+was no flutter of butterfly-wings or darting of flies; the fountains on
+the lawns were not playing, and as the Prince glanced over the edge of
+the marble basin of one of them he could see the goldfish beneath the
+water-lily leaves lying still, with never a wave of the tail or flicker
+of fin.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+So he went on over the lawns and terraces and never a waking thing did
+he see, but when he came to the courtyard he saw a soldier standing
+there, leaning on his pike with his head bent upon his chest. At first
+the Prince thought that he was dead, but his cheek was fresh and ruddy
+and it was quite plain to see that he was merely asleep. In the
+courtyard itself were other human forms, all still and silent. A row of
+pikemen leaned against the wall and in front of them, stretched out upon
+the ground, snored the sergeant who had been drilling them when the
+spell came upon the castle. A young squire, with a sleeping hawk upon
+his wrist, slept leaning against a sleeping horse which he had been
+about to mount. Near by lay a page with a hound in leash, both sleeping
+as soundly as though they never would awake, and through a window in the
+stables the Prince saw a groom lying with a straw in his mouth.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+In the stables themselves a like condition of things prevailed. The
+horses slept at their stalls with their noses to the mangers, standing
+on their four legs just as they were when they were enchanted a hundred
+years before, and on the back of one of them sat the stable-cat. Here
+and there upon the ground lay grooms and ostlers, fast asleep among the
+straw.
+
+From the stables the Prince made his way to the great kitchen where he
+saw equally strange sights, and he could not help smiling when he came
+upon the cook with her hand still outstretched to clout the head of the
+unhappy scullion whom she had by the ear. Before the fires hung the
+spitted partridges and fowls that were cooking for the Princess's
+birthday feast, and at the table a maid had fallen asleep with her hands
+in a large trough full of dough. She had been making the pastry for a
+pie when the sleep fell upon her, and by her side was another maid who
+had been plucking a black hen. At the sink a kitchen-knave was leaning
+over the pot he had been scouring.
+
+Then the Prince went out into the great hall and saw the courtiers
+asleep in the window alcoves, or stretched out upon the polished floor.
+Everywhere was a silence so profound that the Prince was almost alarmed
+to hear his own breathing, and the beating of his heart sounded like a
+muffled drum. On and on he went, through rooms and corridors, up
+staircases and down staircases, into the Queen's chamber where he saw
+the Queen and her ladies as still and silent as the rest; one of those
+ladies had been reading to the Queen at the moment when the charmed
+sleep fell upon the castle, and the book, a History of Troy, still lay
+open on her lap. Then the Prince went into the King's room where his
+Majesty sat with his ministers of state round the Council board. He
+almost lingered there, for it was very curious to see those nobles as
+quiet and motionless as though they had been waxworks in a show. Some of
+them were frowning as though in deep thought, and some smiling as though
+they had suddenly remembered something clever to say. The King himself,
+at the head of the Council table, had evidently fallen asleep in the
+very midst of a speech, for his arm lay outstretched on the table with
+pointing finger, and, by his side, his secretary's fingers still held
+the pen with which he was inscribing on a roll of parchment the royal
+words.
+
+So the Prince hurried through the castle from top to bottom until he had
+glanced into every room and opened every door. And still he knew that
+there was something more to see, for nowhere had he come across the
+sleeping Princess. Many maidens he had seen of surpassing beauty, but
+his heart told him that none of them all was the maiden whom he had come
+to awaken.
+
+Down he went into the courtyard again and found another stairway which
+led to the battlements. There stood the watchmen whose duty it was to
+look out over the country and report the arrival of travellers, but
+they, too, were all asleep, though one of them had his horn in his hand
+as though he had been about to blow it when he was suddenly overcome by
+the charmed slumber.
+
+From the battlements the Prince climbed, in turn, into each of the
+turrets, but there was nobody in them at all, and no living thing except
+the owls asleep in the crevices of the walls, and the bats that hung
+head downward from the rafters. Now only one small turret remained to be
+explored. It was the oldest of the turrets, almost a ruin, and plainly
+long unused, for the iron door was rusty and the ivy trailed about the
+walls.
+
+The Prince approached it with a beating heart, for there he knew he
+should find what he sought. He threw open the creaking door; with
+impatient feet he mounted the crazy, winding stair, opened the door at
+the top and entered a little dark room.
+
+And then--and then he started forward with a cry of joy and wonder, for
+lying on the couch below the narrow window he saw the Princess.
+
+She was lying upon a couch with her lovely hair spread out like a stream
+of gold; and, oh! no words can tell how beautiful she was. Softly the
+Prince came near and bent over her. He touched her hand; it was warm as
+in life, but she did not stir. No sound of breathing came from her
+parted lips, fresh and sweet as the petals of a rose; her eyes were
+closed.
+
+For a long time the Prince stood and gazed upon her, for never in all
+his life had he seen a maiden so lovely. Then suddenly he bent down and
+kissed her lips.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+That was the end of the enchantment. The Princess's eyelids quivered;
+languidly she moved her head and stretched out her arms. Her eyes opened
+and she smiled.
+
+"Is it you, my Prince?" she said. "How long you have kept me waiting!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XI
+
+
+IN that very moment the charm was broken and the castle awoke.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Instead of the profound silence there came a hustle and confusion of
+noise. Clocks began to strike, doors began to slam, dogs began to bark,
+cocks began to crow and hens to cluck; a breeze sprang up outside and
+set the branches of the trees swaying and creaking; the doves began to
+coo upon the roofs, the swallows to twitter under the eaves, flies came
+out and buzzed about the window, mice squeaked in the wainscot and ran
+scampering along the rafters. The fountain in the garden leapt up sixty
+feet into the air, and the goldfish swam among the water-lily leaves;
+ants left their nests and foraged about the paths, the butterflies
+danced and fluttered over the flowers, which lifted their heads as
+though to drink in the rays of the sun. In every tree in the garden a
+thrush woke up and began to sing; sparrows chirped, jays screamed,
+blue-tits chattered, and the chiff-chaff uttered his strange note. In
+the woods a cuckoo called and blackbird fluted to blackbird in the
+hedge. In the stables the horses awoke and champed at their stalls; the
+cat jumped down and ran after a mouse which crept out from under the
+straw. The sentry at the courtyard gate woke up and rubbed his eyes and
+came smartly to attention, looking round uneasily, for he thought he had
+only been asleep for a few minutes and was afraid that somebody might
+have seen him who would report him to the sergeant. The pikemen also
+woke with a start, and the sergeant woke too, and bellowed an order in a
+loud and angry voice, for he was ashamed of himself for sleeping in
+front of his men. The young squire who was going hawking fitted his
+falcon's hood and mounted his steed; the page-boy with the hound went
+off to his master. On the topmost tower of the castle the royal
+standard, which had been drooping against the flagstaff, filled out and
+waved freely in the breeze.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The hedge which had grown up to surround the enchanted castle broke in
+and disappeared; peacocks squalled and strutted on the lawns, martins
+flitted to and from their nests under the eaves, pigs began to grunt,
+oxen to low, sheep to bleat, rooks to caw and children to laugh and
+sing. In short, all the sounds which we hear every day and all the time
+and never notice, began again and seemed so loud in contrast to the
+deadly silence that they almost cracked the ears.
+
+And in every room in the castle the people who had been lying asleep for
+a hundred years woke up and went on with what they had been doing just
+as though nothing had happened. In the kitchen the flames of the fire
+leapt up with a hiss and a roar. The kettle began to boil, the stew-pot
+to bubble, and the meat before the fire to steam and hiss as the little
+boy turned the spit.
+
+"Take that," cried the cook, giving the scullion the clout she had
+promised a hundred years before. "Take that for a lazy knave."
+
+"Goodness," yawned the maid who had been plucking the black hen; "I
+wonder what made me drop off to sleep like that? Well, well, it's to be
+hoped the cook didn't see me!" And my word, how she made the feathers
+fly!
+
+[Illustration]
+
+_Miaou!_ cried the cat in disgust as he made a pounce at the mouse-hole
+he had been watching, for the little mouse who had poked his nose
+out a hundred years before drew it back like a flash and scampered away.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Dear me!" said the servant who was washing the dishes; "I do believe I
+have been to sleep with this crock in my hand. It's a mercy I didn't let
+it fall!" And he went on with his scouring. It was the same thing in the
+dairy where the maids had fallen asleep while they were skimming the
+cream and churning the butter. And the cream was not sour for all that a
+hundred years had passed, nor was the butter rank. But a fly which had
+been sleeping on the edge of one of the milk-pans woke up and flew down
+to taste the milk, and fell in and was drowned, so he was none the
+better because the spell had been taken off the castle.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+In the Queen's ante-chamber the maids-of-honour and the
+ladies-in-waiting sat up and yawned and stretched themselves. Each one
+of them thought that she was the only one who had fallen asleep, and
+they all began to explain at the same time that they had only closed
+their eyes for forty seconds. "It was the heat," they all said to each
+other. "The sun is very hot for this time of year."
+
+In the King's council chamber the King and all his ministers woke up
+with a start. The ministers rubbed their eyes and looked very sheepish,
+for each of them thought that he was alone in being caught napping.
+
+"Your Majesty was saying . . . ?" said the Prime Minister respectfully,
+leaning forward.
+
+"I was saying . . ." said the King. "What was I saying?" And he stretched
+out his arms and yawned. "I crave your pardon, my lords. I do believe
+I've been asleep. Heigho! but my joints are stiff."
+
+"It was but an after-dinner nap," said the Prime Minister. "Your Majesty
+is overspent with the hard hunting yesterday. Is it your Majesty's will
+that we should proceed with our business, or shall the Council rise
+until to-morrow?"
+
+"Go on, my lords, go on," cried the King heartily. "My little nap has
+wonderfully refreshed me. What say you, shall we pass that bill we were
+discussing a few minutes ago?"
+
+But at this moment a page came into the room with a message from the
+Queen, and as soon as he received it the King left his seat in the
+council chamber and went to her.
+
+Alone, among all the people in the castle, the Queen had realised
+immediately she awoke from her charmed sleep, exactly what had happened.
+She remembered the words of the fairy godmother, and she knew that what
+she had foretold had come to pass, and that the sleep from which she and
+everybody else in the castle had just awakened had lasted a hundred
+years.
+
+Her first thought was of her daughter, the Princess Briar-Rose. Where
+was she, and what had happened to her? If she, too, had merely fallen
+asleep, all was well, but suppose the doom first spoken by the
+thirteenth fairy had taken effect?
+
+In a few words she told the King all that was in her mind, and without
+delay messengers were sent all over the castle to look for the Princess.
+
+In the meantime Briar-Rose and the young Prince were talking together in
+the ruined tower. For the first time she heard the story of the
+enchantment, and her eyes grew round with wonder as she listened to her
+lover's account of the strange things that had happened in the castle.
+When he told of the great hedge and its cruel thorns, and of the many
+young men who died in trying to force their way through it, her eyes
+filled with tears.
+
+"How great their courage was," she sighed. "Oh, if only I could bring
+them back to life."
+
+But the Prince kissed her tears away, and hastened past that part of his
+tale, and presently she was smiling again and happy, because she
+understood that everything had happened as it was bound to happen.
+
+Then the Prince took her hand and raised her from the couch on which she
+had slept so long, and they went down the winding stair together and
+came to the battlements, where they found a score of breathless people
+who had been running up and down in search of her.
+
+And how surprised these people were to find her in that place,
+accompanied by a young man they had never seen before! She seemed to
+have grown more beautiful than ever during her long sleep, and they were
+amazed by her loveliness.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+And how may we describe the joy of the King and Queen when they saw
+their daughter again and knew that the good fairy had kept her word? The
+King was so delighted that all he could say was "Bless my soul! bless my
+soul!" And the Queen could say nothing at all, for she was weeping for
+joy.
+
+What a feast there was that night! In spite of the hundred years that
+had gone by it was still the Princess's birthday, and she was in reality
+no more than fifteen years old, for time had stood still for her. So she
+had her birthday feast just the same, and it was her betrothal feast
+too, for the King joined the hands of the young Prince and his daughter
+and gave them his blessing.
+
+
+THE END
+
+
+
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+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[1]</a></span><br /><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[2]</a></span></p>
+<h1>THE SLEEPING BEAUTY</h1>
+
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 358px;">
+<img src="images/icover.jpg" width="358" height="500" alt="Cover" title="Cover" />
+</div>
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Endpapers">
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/iend_paper_a.jpg" width="300" height="419" alt="Endpaper Left" title="Endpaper Left" />
+</td><td align='left'><img src="images/iend_paper_b.jpg" width="295" height="419" alt="Endpaper Right" title="Endpaper Right" />
+</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="Contents and Spine">
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/ispine.jpg" width="41" height="500" alt="Spine" title="Spine" />
+</td><td align='left'><h2>Contents</h2>
+<a href="#CHAPTER_I"><b>CHAPTER I</b></a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_II"><b>CHAPTER II</b></a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_III"><b>CHAPTER III</b></a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_IV"><b>CHAPTER IV</b></a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_V"><b>CHAPTER V</b></a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_VI"><b>CHAPTER VI</b></a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_VII"><b>CHAPTER VII</b></a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_VIII"><b>CHAPTER VIII</b></a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_IX"><b>CHAPTER IX</b></a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_X"><b>CHAPTER X</b></a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_XI"><b>CHAPTER XI</b></a><br /></td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class='center'>
+&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;
+<br /><i>BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY</i><br />
+
+<big>ARTHUR RACKHAM</big><br />
+&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;
+</div>
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Books Illustrated by Rackham">
+<tr><td align='left'>CINDERELLA. 7s. 6d. net.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>THE ALLIES' FAIRY BOOK. 7s. 6d. net.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>ALICE IN WONDERLAND. 7s. 6d. net.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&AElig;SOP'S FABLES. 7s. 6d. net.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>MOTHER GOOSE. 7s. 6d. net.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>A CHRISTMAS CAROL. 7s. 6d. net.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>THE SPRINGTIDE OF LIFE <span class="smcap">Poems of Childhood</span>,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;by A. C. Swinburne. 10s. 6d. net.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>RIP VAN WINKLE. 10s. 6d. net.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>UNDINE. 12s. 6d. net.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>ARTHUR RACKHAM'S BOOK OF PICTURES. 21s. net.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>THE RING OF THE NIBLUNGS. In Two Vols. Each 21s. net.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>INGOLDSBY LEGENDS. 21s. net.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. 21s. net.</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></span><br /><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 182px;">
+<img src="images/emblem.png" width="182" height="200" alt="Emblem" title="Emblem" />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="Frontispiece and Title Page">
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/i005.jpg" width="311" height="400" alt="Frontispiece: Cinderella about to touch the spindle" title="Frontispiece: Cinderella about to touch the spindle" />
+</td><td align='left'><img src="images/i006.jpg" width="312" height="400" alt="Title Page" title="Title Page" />
+</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span></p>
+<div class='center'><br /><br /><br /><br /><small>LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 1920.</small></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span></p><div class="figcenter" style="width: 391px;">
+<img src="images/i008.png" width="391" height="209" alt="Children running" title="Children running" />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span></p><div class="figcenter" style="width: 373px;">
+<img src="images/i009.jpg" width="373" height="500" alt="BRIAR ROSE" title="BRIAR ROSE" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/i010.png" width="600" height="383" alt="ONCE UPON A TIME" title="ONCE UPON A TIME" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h3>THE</h3>
+<h2>SLEEPING BEAUTY</h2>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_I" id="CHAPTER_I"></a>CHAPTER I</h2>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>ONCE upon a time there were a King and a Queen
+who were very unhappy because they had no
+children. Everything else that the heart could
+wish for was theirs. They were rich; they lived in a
+wonderful palace full of the costliest treasures; their
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span>kingdom was at peace, and their people were prosperous.
+Yet none of these things contented them, because they
+wanted a little child of their own to love and to care for,
+and though they had been married several years, no child
+had come to them.</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 294px;">
+<img src="images/i010a.png" width="294" height="197" alt="The King and Queen" title="The King and Queen" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 237px;">
+<img src="images/i010b.png" width="237" height="150" alt="Bowing to the king and queen" title="Bowing to the king and queen" />
+</div><p>Every day the King would look at the Queen and say:
+"Ah, if we only had a little child," and the Queen would
+look at the King and sigh, and they were both very miserable
+about it. Then they would put on their golden crowns<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span>
+and sit side by side on their thrones, while lords and ladies
+and ambassadors from other lands came to pay them homage,
+and they had to smile with their lips for the sake of politeness,
+but there was no joy in their hearts. And that is one
+of the greatest disadvantages of being a King or a Queen,
+that one has always to hide one's feelings.</p>
+
+
+
+
+
+<p>Now it happened one day that the Queen went to her
+bath, and having dismissed her ladies, she descended the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span>
+marble steps into the water and began idly to play with
+some wild rose-petals which had fallen into the water.
+All of a sudden she heard a croaking voice that said:
+"O Queen, be cheerful, for the dearest wish of your heart
+will be granted you."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span><br /><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="The Queen's Bath">
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/i011.png" width="300" height="339" alt="The queen taking a bath" title="The queen taking a bath" />
+</td><td align='left'><img src="images/i012.png" width="295" height="339" alt="Ladies-in-Waiting leaving" title="Ladies-in-Waiting leaving" />
+</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+<p>"Who is that?" cried the Queen, a little frightened,
+for she could see nobody.</p>
+
+<p>"Look behind you," croaked the voice, "and do not be
+afraid, for I come only to bear you good tidings."</p>
+
+<p>So the Queen looked behind her, and there was a great
+frog who looked at her with its big round eyes.</p>
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 380px;">
+<img src="images/i014.png" width="380" height="400" alt="Frog and the queen" title="Frog and the queen" />
+</div>
+<p>Now the Queen was afraid of frogs, because they are
+cold and clammy, but she was very polite by nature as well
+as breeding, so she did not show her dislike, though she
+could not help shrinking back a little.</p>
+
+<p>"And do you tell me, Master Frog," said she, "that I
+shall have the wish of my heart, and do you know what
+that wish may be?"</p>
+
+<p>"It is to have a little small child of your own," said the
+Frog; and the Queen nodded.</p>
+
+<p>"Very well," the Frog went on, "do you see the
+green leaves of that almond tree on the branch by the
+window?"</p>
+
+<p>"I do," replied the Queen wonderingly.</p>
+
+<p>"Those green leaves will fade," said the Frog, "and
+the winter winds will blow them away. Then the branch
+will be bare, but in spring-time, before the leaves come
+again, it will be covered with pink blossom, and that
+blossom you shall show to a baby lying at your breast."</p>
+
+
+
+<p>The Queen gave a cry of joy. A ray of sunlight came
+through the trees, dazzling her eyes so that she had to close<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span>
+them for a moment. When she opened them again the
+frog had gone, and nothing was to be seen but the dainty
+rose-petals floating on the surface of the water.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;">
+<img src="images/i015.png" width="200" height="191" alt="The frog" title="The frog" />
+</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 250px;">
+<img src="images/i016.png" width="250" height="238" alt="Angry cat" title="Angry cat" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_II" id="CHAPTER_II"></a>CHAPTER II</h2>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>THOSE were wonderful tidings to be spoken by a frog
+who came no one knew whence and went no one
+knew whither. But the Queen believed that the
+prophecy would prove true, and she was right, for when
+the Spring time came again and the almond blossom was
+pink upon the bough, she gave birth to a little daughter
+who was so beautiful that nobody had ever seen her like.</div>
+
+<p>Now what joy there was in the hearts of everybody in
+the palace! The King was so excited that he went into
+council in his dressing-gown instead of his royal robe, and
+he did not care a bit when his courtiers smiled. There
+was coming and going in all the halls and corridors.
+Couriers on swift horses were sent out to bear the glad
+news to the most distant parts of the kingdom. All the
+bells in the churches were rung; flags were put out in
+the houses and streamers were hung across the roadways.
+Then the cannons were fired, bang, bang, bang, to tell the
+people that everybody was to have a holiday, so that all,
+from the highest to the lowest, might rejoice in their
+Queen's happiness.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="A celebration">
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/i017.png" width="300" height="354" alt="Holiday left" title="Holiday left" />
+</td><td align='left'><img src="images/i018.png" width="304" height="354" alt="Holiday right" title="Holiday right" />
+</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span><br /><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"Never was there such a beautiful child," said the
+King, looking down at his little daughter as she lay in her
+mother's arms. He wanted very much to nurse her, but
+this could not be allowed, because men are so clumsy with
+babies.</p>
+
+<p>"What shall her name be?" said the King. And he
+suggested all the grandest names he could call to mind, for
+he thought that such a wonderful child must certainly have
+a name to suit. But the Queen would have none of them.</p>
+
+<p>"She shall be called Briar-Rose," said the Queen; and
+so it was arranged.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/i019.png" width="600" height="353" alt="Crowd" title="Crowd" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A few weeks later the christening took place. That
+was a splendid ceremony to be sure, for all the lords and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span>
+ladies of the kingdom were
+present in their richest dresses,
+together with princes and
+ambassadors from distant
+countries. The little Princess
+was as good as gold all the
+time. She did not cry once,
+but opened her big blue eyes
+and smiled at the glittering
+company as though she understood
+everything that was
+going on.</p>
+
+<div class='center'> <table class="tree" summary="Tree">
+<tr><td align='left'>
+<div class='blockquot2'>
+<p>Outside the cathedral the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span>
+roads were crowded with people waiting to see the guests
+come and go. The carriages extended for nearly a mile,
+and as they drove away, headed by the royal coach, in
+which the Queen sat with the Princess Briar-Rose in her
+arms, the spectators took off their hats and shouted and
+cheered. Some of the little boys perched themselves on
+the branches of trees and the lamp-posts in order to get
+a better view, and I have been told that there was one
+poor woman who saw nothing at all, because her boy
+tried to climb up to an inn sign, where he dangled in
+such a dangerous position that his poor old mother had
+to stand with her back to the procession, holding on
+to his legs in a terrible state of anxiety lest he should
+fall.</p>
+
+<p>At the palace, a magnificent feast had been prepared.</p>
+
+<p>Now it was the custom in those days, when a King's
+child was christened, for all the fairies in the country to be
+invited to the christening feast. Each fairy was bound to
+bring a gift, so of course it stood to reason that the royal
+child would have everything that the heart could possibly
+desire.</p></div>
+<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></td>
+</tr></table></div>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 324px;">
+<img src="images/i022.png" width="324" height="400" alt="Shut up in a ruined tower" title="Shut up in a ruined tower" />
+</div>
+
+<p>There were thirteen fairies in the King's realm, but one
+of them lived in a lonely place on the outskirts of the kingdom.
+There, for the last fifty years, she had shut herself
+up in a ruined tower with only a black cat to keep her
+company, and as she kept herself to herself, everybody had
+forgotten her very existence. The result was that she was
+not invited to the christening feast, and though she had
+nobody but herself to blame for this, she was very angry
+about it. The truth of the matter is that she was always a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span>
+miserable, sour creature, with no love or kindness in her
+heart, and nobody missed her because she had never given
+anybody any reason to care for her.</p>
+
+<p>Well, the guests assembled in the banqueting hall of the
+palace and the feast began.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 197px;">
+<img src="images/i023.png" width="197" height="300" alt="Serving the feast" title="Shut up in a ruined tower" />
+</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_III" id="CHAPTER_III"></a>CHAPTER III</h2>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>THE King and the Queen sat on a dais at the end of the
+banqueting hall, and above them in a little gallery
+there was a band of fiddlers and flute-players. On
+either side of the royal pair sat the twelve fairy godmothers,
+six on the right hand and six on the left. In front
+of each fairy was a golden plate and a golden casket made
+to hold her knife, fork and spoon. These caskets were
+beautifully carved and engraved, and each one was of a
+different shape. One was in the form of a ship, another of
+a shell, a third in the form of a castle with turrets, and so
+on; nothing more beautiful could be imagined, for they
+had all been specially made for the occasion by the
+cleverest goldsmiths in the kingdom, and they were the
+King's presents to the fairy godmothers. He felt very
+proud when the fairies spoke admiringly of these caskets
+and said that they would be pleased to accept them.</div>
+
+<p>Below the dais were six long tables for the guests, and
+there was only just room between the tables for the servants
+to pass, so you may judge how crowded the room was.
+Such a glittering of silks, such a flashing of jewels, such a
+dazzle and splendour had never been seen since the time
+of the King's coronation, and all the guests were laughing
+and talking merrily. The court painter was there, of
+course, to make a picture of the gorgeous scene, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span>
+was kept so busy sketching on his tablets that he had
+no time to get any food, though probably he had a good
+meal afterwards.</p>
+
+
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/i025.png" width="600" height="269" alt="Hunting the roe" title="Hunting the roe" />
+</div>
+<p>And the nice things there were to eat! There were:</p>
+
+<div class='blockquot'>
+Force-meat balls flavoured with rare spices from the East;<br />
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span>Sardines from Sardinia;<br />
+Tunny fish from the Mediterranean and Sturgeon from Russia;<br />
+Steaming boars' heads with lemons in their mouths;<br />
+Turkeys, peacocks and swans;<br />
+Ortolans;<br />
+Wonderful roasts and delicious stews;<br />
+Roe deer and Bears' hams;<br />
+</div>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/i026.png" width="600" height="330" alt="Hunting the bear" title="Hunting the bear" />
+</div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><div class="hang1">Sweets in all sorts of curious shapes, as, for instance,
+cakes like castles with little men made of sweet-stuff
+for sentries on the battlements, each complete
+in gilded armour and with a halberd over his
+shoulder. (A rare sight!) And eagles carved of
+ice hovering over silver dishes filled with apricots.</div></div>
+
+<p>Then followed the smaller dishes:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">Tiny cakes as white and delicate as ladies' fingers;<br />
+
+<div class="hang1">Birds' nests made of spun sugar (and in the nests
+were eggs of marsh-mallow, and in each egg was a
+tiny chicken made of caramel!);</div>
+Figs and dates from the desert;<br />
+
+Other fruits, in and out of season;<br />
+
+Syrups and preserves fetched from the four corners of
+the world;<br />
+
+Wines cooled in snow from the distant mountains.</div>
+
+<p>One might fill pages merely by setting down the names of
+all the delicacies.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 150px;">
+<img src="images/i027.png" width="150" height="169" alt="Page boy" title="Page boy" />
+</div>
+
+<p>Each dish was brought in by the servants in a kind of
+procession, headed by the Master-Cook, looking as grand
+and solemn as an archbishop, for he was a grave and
+dignified person, and of course he had a great responsibility.
+The guests were served by little page-boys of noble birth,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span>
+dressed in the liveries of their masters, and these pages
+handed the dishes and the wines most politely on their
+bended knees as they had been taught to do.</p>
+
+<p>So the guests enjoyed themselves, and the fiddlers played,
+and the King laughed at everything everybody said, because
+he was in a mighty good humour, and the bright afternoon
+sun, shining through the western windows, lighted up the
+rich hangings on the walls, and flashed upon the jewels on
+fair ladies' fingers, and fell upon the marble pavement in a
+pool of gold.</p>
+
+<p>And then, you know, when the merriment was at its
+height, something happened! There was a sudden cry,
+and a harsh voice, like the croaking of a raven, sounded
+through the room.</p>
+
+<p>"Be merry, my lords and ladies," cried the voice.
+"Laugh while you may, but remember that tears may
+follow laughter."</p>
+
+<p>A hush fell upon all the brilliant assembly. The Queen
+turned pale and shuddered. The King rose hurriedly
+from his place, and he and all the guests turned to look
+at the strange figure that had suddenly appeared in the
+doorway.</p>
+
+<p>They saw an old woman bent almost double with age,
+her grey head with matted hair sunk deep between her
+shoulders. Her face was white and twisted with anger,
+and her green eyes flashed spitefully.</p>
+
+<p>Slowly she advanced towards the dais, and stretching
+out her arm, pointed her finger at the gold plates and
+the gold caskets set before the fairy godmothers. "There's
+one," said she, with a harsh laugh, "there's two, there's
+twelve! Did you not know, O King, that there were<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span>
+thirteen wise women in your kingdom, and the thirteenth
+the wisest and most powerful of all? Where, then, is the
+plate and the casket set for me?"</p>
+
+<p>The King began to make excuses, imploring the
+angry old fairy to forgive him for his neglect, and begging
+her to sit down and join them in their festivities. "For,"
+said he, "I am sure you are very welcome."</p>
+
+<p>"Is it so, indeed?" said the thirteenth fairy. "I am
+not too late, then, though the feast is all but done. I
+shall eat off silver while my sisters eat off gold, and there
+is no curiously-shaped casket for me. No matter, I am
+content, because I am in time, and I shall dower the
+Princess with the gift which I have brought for her!"
+And here the spiteful creature uttered another of her
+sneering laughs, which made the blood of all the guests
+run cold.</p>
+
+<p>By dint of much coaxing the King at last managed to
+persuade her to sit down, and the feast proceeded. But a chill
+had been cast over the assembly, and nothing was quite the
+same as it had been before. The old crone muttered and
+mouthed over her food, now and again smiling to herself
+as though she were cherishing some secret and evil triumph.
+The other fairies cast anxious glances at her, for they feared
+her malice, and the youngest fairy of all, who happened
+to be seated at the end of the table, presently rose up
+quietly from her place and, stealing away, hid herself
+behind the arras. And nobody saw her go, nor did a
+single person remark upon her absence.</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span></p><div class="figcenter" style="width: 242px;">
+<img src="images/i030.png" width="242" height="300" alt="Cruel Fairy" title="Cruel Fairy" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_IV" id="CHAPTER_IV"></a>CHAPTER IV</h2>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>AND now came the time for the most important part
+of the ceremony, when the fairy godmothers should
+declare their gifts to the royal child. All this time
+the little Princess Briar-Rose had been quietly sleeping in
+her cradle in the nursery, watched over by an old servant
+who had tended her mother as a child. Now the King
+gave orders for the baby to be brought into the banqueting
+hall. The guests ceased their laughter and talk, and the
+musicians laid by their instruments.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span></div>
+
+<p>So the sleeping child was brought and placed in her
+mother's arms. How tenderly she clasped the baby to her
+breast, bending over it as though to shield it from all harm.
+So sweet a sight should have touched the hardest heart,
+and indeed there was only one person in the room who
+remained unmoved, and that was the spiteful and jealous
+fairy, who looked up and bared her yellow teeth in a
+sneering grin.</p>
+
+<p>"Queen," said she, "your face is pale and your lips
+tremble. What is it that you fear on this day of the
+giving of gifts?"</p>
+
+<p>But the Queen shuddered and was silent.</p>
+
+<p>Then a fairy rose in her place and said&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"I will begin. My gift to the Princess Briar-Rose
+is the gift of Beauty. She shall have eyes like stars, and
+hair as bright as the sunshine of the spring day on which
+she was born, and cheeks as fresh and fair as the petals
+of the flower from which she takes her name. None
+shall surpass her in loveliness."</p>
+
+<p>Then the second fairy rose in her turn and said:
+"After Beauty, Wit. The Princess shall be cleverer than
+any ordinary mortal could ever hope to be."</p>
+
+<p>"I give her Virtue," said the third. And the Queen
+nodded her head and smiled, for though she esteemed
+beauty and cleverness, she knew that neither was of any
+worth without goodness of heart.</p>
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="The Spiteful Fairy's Curse">
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/i033.jpg" width="300" height="385" alt="The King and Queen and court" title="The King and Queen and court" />
+</td><td align='left'><img src="images/i034.jpg" width="303" height="385" alt="Spiteful old fairy" title="Spiteful old fairy" />
+</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<p>So all the fairies in turn named the gift which they had
+brought for Briar-Rose. The fourth said that whatever
+the Princess put her hand to, she should do with the most
+exquisite grace; the fifth, that she should sing like a
+nightingale; the sixth that she should dance as lightly as a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[33]</a></span>
+fairy, and so on until she had nearly all the virtues and
+accomplishments which even a King might desire for his
+daughter. But as yet, the spiteful old fairy had not said
+a word.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[34]</a></span><br /><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[35]</a></span><br /><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[36]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>At last she rose and cast an evil glance round.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[37]</a></span>"Have you all finished?" said she. "Hear, then, my
+wish. On the day when she reaches her fifteenth birthday,
+the Princess shall prick her finger with the spindle of a
+spinning-wheel, and shall immediately die!"</p>
+
+<p>This terrible prophecy made the whole company shudder.
+The Queen gave a cry and hugged the sleeping baby still
+closer to her breast.</p>
+
+<p>"No, no! Have pity!" she cried. "Call down your
+dreadful fate on my head if you will, but do not harm this
+innocent child."</p>
+
+<p>At this mournful appeal there was hardly one of the
+guests who could keep from tears, but the old crone only
+mumbled to herself as though she were uttering a spell.
+Then the King leapt to his feet, his hand at the jewelled
+hilt of the dagger that hung at his girdle. In another
+moment he might have stretched the wicked creature
+lifeless at his feet, but before he could draw the weapon
+from its sheath, another voice arrested him.</p>
+
+<p>"Stay your hand, O King, lest even worse befall. No
+mortal may strike at a fairy and go unpunished. And,
+for the rest, take comfort, for your daughter shall not
+die!"</p>
+
+<p>Then the twelfth fairy stepped out from behind the
+arras where she had been hidden. "My gift is still to
+come," she continued. "As far as I can, I will undo the
+mischief which my sister has done. It is true that I have<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[38]</a></span>
+not the power to prevent altogether what she has decreed.
+The Princess shall, indeed, prick her finger with the
+spindle of the spinning-wheel on the day when she attains
+her fifteenth year; but instead of dying she shall fall into a
+deep sleep; and this sleep shall last for a hundred years, and
+when that time is past, a King's son shall come to waken
+her."</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 310px;">
+<img src="images/i037.png" width="310" height="200" alt="Spiteful Fairy leaves" title="Spiteful Fairy leaves" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[39]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_V" id="CHAPTER_V"></a>CHAPTER V</h2>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>SO the worst was averted, but the fate of the poor little
+Princess was still terrible enough, and it was only
+to be expected that the King should do his best to
+prevent the prophecy from coming to fulfilment.</div>
+
+<p>The first thing he did was to summon all the magicians
+of his own and neighbouring countries, promising a rich
+reward to the one who could show him a way to defeat the
+old fairy's malice. The magicians came in scores, some
+with long beards reaching to their feet, some without any
+beards at all, some with bald heads, and some with matted
+hair that looked as though it had not been combed for
+centuries. For days there were so many magicians about
+the palace that they were commoner than cats, and it was
+impossible to enter any room without surprising one or the
+other of them, sitting in deep reflection and looking as wise
+as only a magician can look. But nothing came of their
+thinking, and one after the other they gave up the task and
+departed, having first asked for their travelling expenses.</p>
+<div class="figright" style="width: 180px;">
+<img src="images/i039.png" width="180" height="300" alt="Merlin" title="Merlin" />
+</div>
+
+<p>At last there came a wizard who was wiser and more
+venerable than all the rest, and when he heard what was
+required of him he said he would go home and consult his
+secret books which contained the magic lore of all the ages,
+and which had been written by the greatest of all the
+magicians, Merlin himself.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[40]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Home, then, he went, to his cell, which was in a rocky
+cliff on the side of a mountain, and having uttered the word
+of power which unlocked the massive door, he entered and
+prepared to begin his researches.</p>
+
+
+<p>Now the books of magic lore which Merlin had written
+were in many volumes, and everything in them was set
+down in alphabetical order, so that it could be found easily.
+The old wizard, therefore, turned first of all to the word
+<i>Princess</i>. Five hundred pages were devoted to this subject,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[41]</a></span>
+and, truly, there was a great deal of very interesting
+information. As thus:&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class='hang1'><span class="smcap">Princess:</span> How to transform Goosegirl into.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Spell for causing Princess to be surrounded with
+high walls of bronze, which may by no means be
+broken down except by the notes of a certain
+trumpet (<i>q.v.</i>).</p></div>
+
+<p>(Now <i>q.v.</i> are the first letters of two magic words
+which are to be found in all dictionaries and encyclop&aelig;dias
+to this day).</p>
+
+<div class='hang1'><span class="smcap">Princess:</span> Enchanted ring for.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>A new and improved method by which she may
+be changed into a fawn together with any members
+of her family according to desire, and all of them
+transformed back again into their proper shape.</p></div>
+
+<div class='hang1'><span class="smcap">Princess:</span> An excellent device for causing a Princess to
+grow tall or short by eating of a mushroom, with
+directions how to find the place where the mushroom
+grows, and precautions to be taken lest by over-much
+nibbling she disappear altogether.</div>
+
+<p>And so on. But there was never a word about how to
+prevent a Princess from falling into a charmed sleep through
+pricking her finger with the spindle of a spinning-wheel.</p>
+
+<p>So when he had read all through the five hundred pages,
+the venerable wizard turned to the word <i>Sleep</i>, in the hope
+that he would meet with better fortune.</p>
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 325px;">
+<img src="images/i042.png" width="325" height="400" alt="In mysterious places" title="In mysterious places" />
+</div>
+
+<p>And there was much reliable information under this
+heading also. There were recipes for potent drugs which
+would cause sleep, and for still more potent drugs which
+would prevent people from going to sleep, and when the
+wizard came to this last he cried out eagerly, for he thought<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[42]</a></span>
+that he had succeeded in his quest, until he read on and
+discovered that the spell described was only for use on
+wicked Queens who had shamefully ill-used their step-children.
+It is very easy to make a mistake in magic, for
+it is a most complicated science.</p>
+
+<p>By the time he had read through the two hundred pages
+devoted to the word <i>Sleep</i>, the venerable wizard was very
+uneasy, but he was a persevering person and he did not
+abandon his endeavours. Merlin's wise books having failed
+him, he cast about for other means to learn what he desired,
+and consulted his oracle.</p>
+
+<p>Now his oracle was a stuffed crocodile hanging from
+the ceiling, and a voice came from it which told him to repeat
+the magic formula.</p>
+
+<p>The magic formula is a sentence made up of all the
+sounds that are left out of ordinary speech, and it is a fearsome
+thing to listen to. It is also very exhausting to say,
+and after the venerable wizard had repeated it, he was
+obliged to rest for several hours. Then he rose again and
+drew pentagons on the rocky floor of his cave, and crossed
+triangles and circles bordered with all the signs of the
+Zodiac. And he stood in the middle of the pentagons
+and the crossed triangles and the circles and went
+through all sorts of strange and secret rites, but all to no
+purpose.</p>
+
+
+<p>But still he would not give up trying; and he went to
+mysterious places in the woods and gathered strange herbs
+in the dark of the moon. And, returning home, he cast
+the herbs into a brazier and they burnt with flames of
+many colours, giving out clouds of dense smoke and a most
+horrible smell. Then, as these exercises did not bring<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[44]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[43]</a></span>
+him the result he desired, he gazed into crystals and poured
+ink into the palm of his hand, and did all the other things
+that he had learnt to do in all the years since he was
+apprenticed to magic as a very small boy.</p>
+
+<p>And just as he was going to give up the quest in
+despair, a thought came into his head, and he cried aloud
+for joy, for he knew he had discovered what he sought.
+This shows how even the most difficult things may be
+attained by perseverance and patience.</p>
+
+<p>At the top of his speed he hastened back to the palace
+and asked an audience of the King. This was immediately
+granted, for, to tell the truth, the King was awaiting
+his return with considerable anxiety.</p>
+
+<p>"Well," said he, "have you succeeded in finding a
+way?"</p>
+
+<p>"I have," answered the venerable wizard. "My arts
+have not failed me!" And he handed the King a piece
+of parchment on which were written the following words.
+They were written in Latin to make them look more
+important, but very likely it was not good Latin, for the
+venerable wizard had been apprenticed to his trade at an
+early age, and in consequence his classical education had
+been somewhat neglected. But this was the meaning of
+them:</p>
+
+<div class='poem'>
+Shall spindle prick?&mdash;then spindle burn,<br />
+No thread weave and no wheel turn;<br />
+If there's no spindle and there's no wheel,<br />
+Then no finger the spindle can feel.<br /></div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[45]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The King slapped his thigh for joy. "Why, of course!"
+said he. "How is it that I did not myself think of such
+a simple solution? It seems to me, Wizard, that you have
+easily earned your thousand crowns!"</p>
+
+<p>"Ah, Majesty," the wizard made answer, "all things
+are simple when once you know them."</p>
+
+<p>And in this he was quite right.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 217px;">
+<img src="images/i044.png" width="217" height="300" alt="Merlin &quot;solves&quot; the problem" title="Merlin &quot;solves&quot; the problem" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[46]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 295px;">
+<img src="images/i045.png" width="295" height="300" alt="Trumpet announcement" title="Trumpet announcement" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VI" id="CHAPTER_VI"></a>CHAPTER VI</h2>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>THE King lost no time in putting the wizard's counsel
+into effect. The very next day he caused a proclamation
+to be written, and ordered copies of it
+to be fixed on all the church doors, and in all the public
+places of every town in his kingdom. This is the way
+the proclamation read:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[47]</a></span></div>
+
+
+<div class='center'> <table class="proclaim" summary="proclamation">
+<tr><td align='left'><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
+<div class='blockquot3'><div class='hang1'>
+WHEREAS a certain malicious fairy, forgetful of the
+duties she owes to the most high and puissant King
+and Queen, rightful sovereigns of these realms, and
+to the Princess Briar-Rose, their dearly loved daughter,
+has, of malice aforethought, and with intent to work
+grievous bodily harm to the person of the said Princess,
+in the presence of the said most puissant Sovereigns
+and of divers of their loyal subjects made and uttered
+a prophecy, to wit: that the said Princess shall in her
+fifteenth year prick her finger with the spindle of a
+spinning-wheel, and that a certain dire misfortune
+shall fall upon her because of that injury, to the sorrow
+of her loving parents: NOW BE IT DECREED<br />
+That all spinning-wheels or instruments of spinning
+whatsoever, in the possession of any subjects of the
+King's most excellent Majesty, whether they be
+worked by hand or by treadle or by any other device,
+together with all spindles, shuttles, bobbins, and all
+other accessories or appurtenances thereunto belonging,
+shall forthwith be rendered up to the officers of the
+King's most excellent Majesty appointed to receive
+them. AND BE IT FURTHER DECREED<br />
+That if any person or persons fail to observe or obey
+this edict or ordinance by unlawfully retaining any
+instrument of spinning or accessory thereunto, such
+persons shall be dealt with according to the full rigour
+of the law, and shall suffer the penalty of death.
+</div>
+
+<div class='sig'>
+Given under our royal hand and seal.<br />
+</div></div>
+<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></td>
+</tr></table></div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[48]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The issue of this proclamation caused a great deal of
+interest and excitement throughout the kingdom. All the
+people came out of their houses to gaze at it, for they had
+never seen its like before, and though very few of them
+knew how to read they realised that it must mean something
+very important. So they sent for clerks and scholars
+to read it to them, paying a penny apiece for the service,
+which pennies, the clerks and scholars, being usually extraordinarily
+needy persons, were very glad to earn. It
+usually took about three hours to read the proclamation
+and to explain it; and one must admit that it might have
+been expressed in fewer words. To do so, however, would
+not have been dignified, for this proclamation was what is
+called a legal instrument.</p>
+
+<p>The very next day into each town and village of the
+kingdom the King's officers came riding. Before them
+went a trumpeter who stopped at the head of each street
+and blew a loud call. Having thus commanded attention
+he marched past the houses calling in a loud voice:</p>
+
+<p>"Bring out your spinning-wheels. Bring out your
+spinning-wheels!"</p>
+
+<p>So the people brought them out, not without grumbling,
+for a spinning-wheel is a very useful thing to have in a
+house, and in those days people spun and wove their own
+cloth to make their clothes. But they were afraid to disobey
+the King's order.</p>
+
+<p>And the spinning-wheels were of all shapes and sizes, some
+of them new and some of them hundreds of years old, and
+there was hardly a house that did not possess one of some
+kind or another. They were all collected together and
+loaded into waggons and taken to the capital, where<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[49]</a></span>
+they were piled up into an immense heap in the public
+square.</p>
+
+<p>Then the King and Queen and all the court came out
+and watched while the big heap was set on fire. The
+people came out to watch too in their thousands, and a
+very fine sight it was to see the enormous flames shooting
+up into the air and to hear the crackle and hiss of the
+burning wood that sounded like the discharge of a hundred
+muskets.</p>
+
+<p>The King laughed aloud in his relief, and even the
+Queen smiled, while the little Princess Briar-Rose, who was
+held up to a window of the palace to see the bonfire,
+stretched out her arms to the pretty flames and crowed.
+But the people were not very much amused by the sight
+because they were their spinning-wheels which were being
+burnt.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i048.png" width="400" height="219" alt="Smashed spinning wheels" title="Smashed spinning wheels" />
+</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[50]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<p>"I've had my wheel for twenty years," said one woman,
+"and now I've none at all, and how on earth I can<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[51]</a></span>
+get along without it I don't know, with six growing lads
+to find breeches for!"</p>
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="Mother and sons">
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/i049.png" width="300" height="259" alt="Mother" title="Mother" />
+</td><td align='left' valign='bottom'><img src="images/i050.png" width="300" height="218" alt="Sons" title="Sons" />
+</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[52]</a></span></p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[53]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"Five silver crowns my wheel cost my good man last
+Candlemass," said another, "and there it goes up in flames
+and smoke."</p>
+
+<p>"What is a wheel if the burning of it saves our little
+Princess?" quoth a third. "Come, cheer up, Mother, the
+King has reason for what he does and he will not see us
+want."</p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 431px;">
+<img src="images/i051.png" width="431" height="400" alt="Bonfire" title="Bonfire" />
+</div>
+<p>And this man was right. The King had no wish to
+oppress his subjects, for no sooner was the pile reduced to
+ashes than he caused another proclamation to be issued,
+saying that the owner of every spinning-wheel should be
+paid for its loss. And not only so, but the King told his
+merchants to buy spun yarn from neighbouring countries
+so that the people might be able to weave, even though
+they could not spin.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[54]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VII" id="CHAPTER_VII"></a>CHAPTER VII</h2>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>THE little Princess Briar-Rose, of course, knew
+nothing of the strange events that had happened
+at the feast of her christening, and the King
+gave orders that nobody should even mention the subject
+to her. It is not a pleasant thing to know that the
+fairies have decreed that one shall fall asleep for a
+hundred years on one's fifteenth birthday, even though
+one is to be awakened by a handsome Prince at the end
+of that time. So all the lords-in-waiting and the ladies-in-waiting
+had to be very careful and discreet. If they
+told the Princess a story, they had to keep the word
+"spinning" out of it; and if they showed her a book they
+had to take pains to see it did not contain a picture of a
+spinning-wheel, or any reference to a distaff or spindle, lest
+she should ask what they were. The King's Customs
+officers, on the boundaries of the kingdom, had to examine
+every waggon-load of merchandise that came into the
+country for fear it should contain a spinning-wheel; and
+if anybody was found trying to smuggle one in he was
+brought before the judges and punished.</div>
+
+<p>By these devices the King felt certain that he had
+averted the fate laid upon his daughter.</p>
+<div class="figright" style="width: 131px;">
+<img src="images/i054.png" width="131" height="200" alt="Princess playing a drum" title="Princess playing a drum" />
+</div>
+<p>But the promises of the other wise women were fulfilled
+to the letter, for the young Princess grew up to be the
+most beautiful, gifted and gracious maiden in all the world.
+That, at any rate, was what everybody in the palace said,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[55]</a></span>
+from the lords and ladies down to the scullions in the
+kitchen, and although people are inclined sometimes to
+flatter Royalty, in this case there was reason for their
+admiration.</p>
+
+<p>To begin with, the Princess was as lovely as a spring
+morning, with eyes of the purest, softest blue, and hair in
+which the rays of the sun seemed to be entangled. When
+she came into a room people stopped whatever they were
+doing to look at her, and everyone felt happier because she
+was there.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[56]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 260px;">
+<img src="images/i055.png" width="260" height="250" alt="Drawing on a wall" title="Drawing on a wall" />
+</div>
+
+<p>And her cleverness! She never had any trouble with
+her letters or her multiplication table. She could cipher
+as easily as she could spell; she knew the history of her
+own country and of every country round it; and nobody
+could puzzle her with the hardest question in geography.
+She could sew and embroider, and knit and paint and draw;<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[57]</a></span>
+she could repeat poetry in five different languages;<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[58]</a></span>
+she studied mathematics and botany and astronomy and
+even law. In short, there was no end to her knowledge,
+and all because she had those fairies for her godmothers.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i056.png" width="400" height="385" alt="Princess everywhere" title="Princess everywhere" />
+</div>
+
+
+<p>Besides this, there were all her other accomplishments; she
+could play on all sorts of musical instruments, as, for instance,
+fiddle and zither, large harp and jew's-harp, church organ and
+mouth organ, flute and penny-whistle, and even on the
+nursery comb; she could sing like a nightingale and dance<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[59]</a></span>
+like a fairy.</p>
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="Dancing like a fairy">
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/i057.png" width="300" height="185" alt="Princess learning to dance" title="Princess learning to dance" />
+</td><td align='left'><img src="images/i058.png" width="300" height="185" alt="People watching the princess" title="People watching the princess" />
+</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[60]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And yet she was never conceited or puffed-up, as some
+good-looking and accomplished people are apt to be. On
+the contrary, she was always sweet-tempered and modest,
+and for this reason she was loved. People may admire<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[61]</a></span>
+good looks and a graceful deportment, and they may
+respect ability, but it is only sweetness of nature and
+goodness of heart that can win love. And these things
+were the gift of the third fairy.</p>
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="A conceited man">
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/i059.png" width="227" height="288" alt="A conceited man" title="A conceited man" />
+</td><td align='left'><img src="images/i060.png" width="249" height="325" alt="Onlookers" title="Onlookers" />
+</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[62]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>So the years passed, and at last came the day when the
+Princess Briar-Rose was fifteen years of age.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i061.png" width="300" height="318" alt="Princess playing music" title="Princess playing music" />
+</div>
+
+<p>What a day that was! Everybody came to wish her
+many happy returns, and she had so many presents that
+at least a dozen servants were kept busy unwrapping the
+parcels. The King gave her a white pony with a saddle
+of red velvet, and bridle and stirrups of gold, while the
+Queen's present was a beautiful and costly necklace of
+pearls. Even the boy who turned the spit in the kitchen
+brought her something, and though it was only a little
+wooden shoe which he had carved with his own hands, the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[63]</a></span>
+Princess prized it just as much as though it had been made
+of gold.</p>
+
+<p>The only person who was not happy on the Princess's
+birthday was the Queen, and she went about with a pale
+face and a look of great anxiety.</p>
+
+<p>"Come, come, my love," said the King, "what is the
+matter with you? Surely you are not thinking of that
+foolish old prophecy!"</p>
+
+<p>"How can I help thinking about it?" the Queen
+answered. "I have not been able to get it out of my
+mind for fifteen years, and now that the day has come I
+am afraid."</p>
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Preparing for the feast">
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/i063.png" width="300" height="320" alt="Preparing for the feast 1" title="Preparing for the feast 1" />
+</td><td align='left'><img src="images/i064.png" width="300" height="319" alt="Preparing for the feast 2" title="Preparing for the feast 2" />
+</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+
+<div class='center'> <table class="rose" summary="Rosebush">
+<tr><td align='left'><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
+
+<div class='blockquot2'><p>"Make your mind easy," said the King. "Nothing
+is going to happen. Why, there's not a spinning-wheel
+within a hundred miles. I have taken good care
+of that!" And he went away chuckling, to attend
+a meeting of his Cabinet. But the Queen shook her
+head.</p>
+
+<p>Now while the King and Queen were talking, the
+Princess Briar-Rose was wandering about in the castle,
+visiting room after room, as she had done many times
+before. The castle was so big that a stranger might easily
+have been lost in its maze of stairways and corridors, but
+Briar-Rose knew every part of it quite well, from the great
+kitchens below ground, where on feast days a score of cooks
+prepared the dinner for hundreds of guests, to the topmost
+turret above the battlements, where the sentries kept watch
+with their pikes on their shoulders. There was only one
+part of the castle which Briar-Rose had never explored,
+and that was an ancient tower which rose from the eastern
+end. The door of that tower was always locked, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[66]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[65]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[64]</a></span>
+although the Princess had often
+tried to find the key she had
+never succeeded. The servants
+told her that the tower had not
+been inhabited for nearly a hundred
+years, and it had never been
+entered within the memory of
+anybody in the castle.</p></div>
+<br /></td>
+</tr></table></div>
+
+
+
+
+
+<p>To-day Briar-Rose flitted restlessly
+from place to place. She
+peeped into the kitchen and saw
+the kitchen boys turning the spits
+on which whole oxen were being
+roasted. Then she went into
+the empty throne room and saw
+the golden thrones side by side
+upon the dais, and the rich
+tapestry, glowing with all the
+colours of the rainbow, on the
+walls. After that she mounted
+to the battlements from which
+she could see over miles and miles
+of her father's kingdom, and not
+content with that, she ran up the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[67]</a></span>
+staircases into the turrets and looked through their narrow
+slits of windows upon the courtyard below, so far down
+that the people walking therein seemed no bigger than
+mice. And then she came down again and continued her
+wanderings, searching in all sorts of out-of-the-way corners,
+until at last she found herself before the door of the
+ancient tower into which she had never been. And as she
+looked at the door, she gave a start of surprise and then
+a cry of joy.</p>
+
+<p>There was a key in the lock.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[68]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i067.png" width="400" height="269" alt="Owls and Bats" title="Owls and Bats" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VIII" id="CHAPTER_VIII"></a>CHAPTER VIII</h2>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>IT was a rusty key, and Briar-Rose was afraid that she
+might not be able to turn it, but to her surprise it
+turned quite easily. The heavy door swung inward
+on its ancient hinges with many a creak and groan, and
+she found herself in a little dark room thickly carpeted
+with the dust of years. From this room a winding staircase
+led upward, and Briar-Rose was just about to climb the
+stair when a sudden noise made her start back in alarm.</div>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 315px;">
+<img src="images/i068.png" width="315" height="400" alt="Princess opening the door" title="Princess opening the door" />
+</div>
+
+<p><i>Whirr!</i> There was a beating of wings, a flurry and a
+scuffle, and past her face flew a dark shape, with gleaming,
+yellow eyes. It was only an owl who was hiding in the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[70]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[69]</a></span>
+tower out of the sunlight, but he gave poor Briar-Rose a
+great fright, and she was in two minds whether to turn
+back or not, but the winding staircase looked very inviting
+and she wanted to see whither it led, so gathering up her
+skirts to avoid any creepy things that might be crawling
+about, she ran up the stairway as fast as she could, round
+and round until she reached the top. There she came
+upon another door.</p>
+
+<p>In this door also was a rusty key, and Briar-Rose turned
+it as easily as she had turned the first. Then she pushed
+open the door and entered.</p>
+
+<p>She found herself in a small room lighted by narrow
+windows. Beneath one of these windows was a couch,
+and in front of it sat an old woman with a spinning-wheel.</p>
+
+<p>"Good-morrow, Motherkin," said the Princess. "What
+are you doing?"</p>
+
+<p>"I am spinning, my pretty child," answered the old
+woman without ceasing her work.</p>
+
+<p>"Spinning?" asked the Princess. "Oh, do let me see!
+What is that thing which goes round so merrily?"</p>
+
+<p>"That is the spinning-wheel," said the old woman.
+"Why, child, you speak as though you had never seen such
+a thing before."</p>
+
+<p>"Indeed, I have not," said the Princess. "How interesting
+it is! I wonder whether I could do it as well as you.
+Will you let me try?"</p>
+
+<p>"Why, of course," said the old woman, "every young
+girl should know how to spin. Here you are, my dear,"
+and she gave Briar-Rose the spindle.</p>
+
+<p>Now whether the Princess in her eagerness to seize the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[71]</a></span>
+spindle grasped it too roughly, or whether it was just because
+the fairy had ordained that it should be so, I do not know,
+but anyhow the sharp iron point pricked her hand, and
+immediately she fell backward on to the couch in a deep
+sleep.</p>
+
+<p>And in that very moment sleep fell upon every man,
+woman and child in the castle, and upon every living thing
+within its gates. The King, who was sitting at the
+Council-board with his ministers, stopped speaking in the
+middle of a sentence, and remained with his mouth open,
+in the act of uttering a word, and nobody remarked the
+strangeness of his conduct, for all his ministers were asleep
+too, just as they sat. Outside the door the sentry leaned
+upon his pike. In the Queen's chamber the ladies-in-waiting
+fell into a profound slumber in the very midst
+of what they were doing&mdash;one as she was hemming a
+handkerchief, another over her embroidery, still another
+while she was talking to her parrot. The Queen slept in
+her chair, and a little page-boy who was singing fell asleep
+in the middle of a note.</p>
+
+<p>All through the castle the charmed slumber spread.
+Courtiers, officers, stewards, cooks, errand-boys, soldiers,
+beadles,&mdash;nay the very horses in the stables and the dogs in
+their kennels were stricken motionless as though they were
+dead. The flies ceased to buzz at the windows and the
+pigeons to coo upon the roof. In the great kitchen the
+scullions fell asleep as they were washing up the dishes,
+and a cook in the very act of boxing the ears of a
+kitchen-knave.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 200px;">
+<img src="images/i071.png" width="200" height="78" alt="Dog asleep" title="Dog asleep" />
+</div>
+
+<p>But not for a hundred years would he feel that blow,
+or be able to utter the cry that was on the tip of his<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[72]</a></span>
+tongue. The dog fell asleep under the table as he was
+gnawing a bone; the cat in front of a mouse-hole, the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[73]</a></span>
+mouse itself on the other side of the skirting-board, with
+its little sharp nose outstretched to sniff the air suspiciously.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[74]</a></span>
+Even the spits which were turning at the fire, laden with
+partridges and pheasants cooking for the Princess's birthday
+feast&mdash;even they ceased to turn, and the very fire stopped
+flickering and the flames sank down.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;">
+<img src="images/i072.png" width="350" height="170" alt="Cat sleeping with mouse" title="Cat sleeping with mouse" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A deep silence fell over the castle. In the fields the
+lambs ceased to bleat, the horses to neigh and the cows to
+low. The birds in the trees were silent. One moment
+the air was full of the music of their twittering; the next,
+all was as still as in a desert. The very wind dropped to
+sleep in the woods; not a leaf stirred, and the white clouds
+were motionless in the sky.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>So sleep fell upon the enchanted castle and upon all
+within it, because of the Princess Briar-Rose, who lay
+there on her couch in the ancient tower waiting till
+the hundred years should be past and the Prince should
+come to waken her.</p>
+
+<p>And all round the castle there grew up a hedge of
+thorn, tangled with ivy, woodbine and creeping plants, so
+dense that from a distance it seemed like a little wood.
+Higher and higher it grew, closing round the castle like a
+wall until all that could be seen was the top of the highest
+tower, and the flagstaff from which the royal standard
+hung limp and motionless.</p>
+
+<div class='center'> <table class="thorn" summary="Thornbush">
+<tr><td align='left'><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
+<div class='blockquot4'><p>And the years went by, each with its changing seasons.
+Spring came and brought to the fields and woods outside
+the new life of leaf and flower. The trees awoke from
+their winter sleep and clothed themselves gloriously in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[75]</a></span>
+green; the birds began to sing
+again and the swallows and martins
+built their nests under the eaves;
+children laughed and clapped their
+hands because they were happy in
+the bright sunshine, and old people
+felt their hearts filled with joy
+when they saw the mist of
+bluebells in the woods and
+the daffodils dancing in
+the breeze.</p>
+
+
+
+<p>But within the thorn
+hedge no life stirred, and
+neither flower nor tree
+answered the call of spring.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[76]</a></span></p></div>
+<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></td>
+</tr></table></div>
+<div class="figright" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i075.png" width="400" height="446" alt="Fighting the thorns" title="Fighting the thorns" />
+</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[77]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>As time went on, the people who were young when
+the palace was enchanted grew old and died, but they
+never forgot the prophecy that one of these days the
+sleeping Princess should awaken; and they told the story
+to their children, who told it in their turn, changing it a
+little because it was only a tale to them. And so, after
+many years, the legend spread abroad to neighbouring
+countries, and many a young prince dreamed that it was he
+who was destined to break the spell and waken the sleeping
+Princess.</p>
+
+<p>Now and again one would take the quest upon him
+and try to force his way through the thick hedge. But no
+one succeeded. The sharp thorns gripped the unhappy
+young men like clutching hands, and held them fast, so that
+they could neither go forward nor back, and they perished
+miserably. Their bones, whitened by the sun and wind,
+remained there as a warning for all to see, and the
+creeping plants grew over them.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[78]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_IX" id="CHAPTER_IX"></a>CHAPTER IX</h2>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>A &nbsp;&nbsp;HUNDRED years passed away. At the end of that
+time it happened one day that a young Prince who
+was hunting in the neighbourhood caught sight of
+the towers of the enchanted castle rising above the dense
+forest. He had never been in that part of the country
+before, and had heard nothing of the story of the Sleeping
+Princess, so he asked the first people he met what those
+towers were, and to whom the castle belonged.</div>
+
+<p>Everybody told him a different tale. One said that it
+was an old castle haunted by spirits; another, that it was a
+meeting-place for all the witches and sorcerers in the land,
+who gathered there to practise their secret rites.</p>
+
+<p>"No, no," said a third. "That castle is the home of a
+giant, and all the people in these parts are very much afraid
+of him, so I have been told, because he steals their cattle
+and their crops, and even carries off their children to be his
+servants. And they cannot go to the rescue of those he
+has imprisoned in this way, because of the forest all round
+the castle, which is so dense that nobody can force his way
+through.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[79]</a></span>"</p>
+
+<p>And so they went on, one saying one thing, and one
+another, for each repeated what he had heard. At last an
+old peasant stepped forward.</p>
+
+<p>"Fifty years ago, my Prince," said he, "my father told
+me the story of that castle, and since he was born in these
+parts, I think it was the true story, and I will tell it you if
+you would like to hear it."</p>
+
+<p>The Prince nodded eagerly, and the old man went
+on:</p>
+
+<p>"My father said that years before he himself was born
+a King and Queen lived in the castle with their daughter,
+the most beautiful Princess that ever was seen. In some
+way or other they angered the fairies, who put a spell upon
+the place and upon every one within it, so that they fell
+into a deep sleep. My father said that this sleep would last
+a hundred years, but at the end of that time a King's son
+should come and waken the beautiful Princess and make
+her his bride."</p>
+
+<p>When the young Prince heard these words he felt his
+heart beat quickly. Something seemed to tell him that he
+and no other was the King's son who was destined to
+remove the spell, and he cried: "Show me the way to the
+castle, for I will take this adventure upon me."</p>
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="Finding the castle">
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/i079.png" width="300" height="283" alt="Asking the way" title="Asking the way" />
+</td><td align='left'><img src="images/i080.png" width="300" height="284" alt="The directions" title="The directions" />
+</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+<p>But the old man shook his head. "I have not yet told
+you all, my Prince. Many are the young men who have
+tried to force their way through the thick wood that
+guards the enchanted castle. Each of them thought that
+he, and he alone, was destined to awaken the Sleeping
+Beauty, and each of them set out with high hopes; but
+none of them all came back, and their bones, whitened
+by the wind and rain, lie among the thorns of the thick<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[82]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[81]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[80]</a></span>
+hedge, a fearful warning to the venturesome. I pray you,
+therefore, my Prince, do nothing rash, but think well
+before you take upon yourself this perilous quest."</p>
+
+
+
+<p>"What," cried the Prince with flashing eyes, "shall I
+hold back when others have dared? This very hour I will
+attempt to enter the castle, and if I do not return, carry
+home the news of how I have died."</p>
+
+<p>Then without paying any heed to the words of those
+who would prevent him from rushing into such danger,
+the eager young man set out, his heart on fire with
+thoughts of love and glory. Nobody showed him the
+way, but he could see the towers of the castle rising above
+the distant wood, and when he entered the wood itself,
+and the towers were hidden, each path he took led him
+nearer to the place where he would be.</p>
+
+<p>At last he came to an open glade, and there before him
+was a tangled hedge of thorn, stretching in either direction
+as far as the eye could see.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[84]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[83]</a></span></p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[85]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[86]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="Making his way through">
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/i083.jpg" width="300" height="382" alt="The Prince fighting through" title="The Prince fighting through" />
+</td><td align='left'><img src="images/i084.jpg" width="300" height="377" alt="Finally through" title="Finally through" />
+</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[87]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_X" id="CHAPTER_X"></a>CHAPTER X</h2>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>AND now, as the Prince drew nearer, he could see
+that the story he had heard about that terrible
+place was true, for held in the tangle of briar were
+the bones of many unhappy young men who had tried to
+force their way through to the castle. Rags and tatters of
+their finery hung upon the great thorns that pointed
+menacingly like sharp claws. Here and there upon the
+ground beneath lay pieces of rusty armour, a helmet
+surrounded by a coronet of gold that once had belonged to
+a King's son, a shield with a Prince's device, a sword with
+jewel-encrusted hilt worth a King's ransom. There they
+lay, all disregarded among the blanched bones upon the
+grass, and the ground-ivy spread out its leaves to cover
+them.</div>
+
+<p>Not a sound broke the deep and awful silence. No
+bird sang, no insect droned; there was no scurry of woodland
+creatures among the leaves, no sigh of wind in the
+trees. In all that place only the thorn hedge seemed
+threateningly alive, waiting to destroy the intruder who
+should attempt to force the secret it guarded.</p>
+
+<p>Who would blame the Prince if for a moment his heart
+had almost failed him? There was no gap in that hedge,
+and the great thorns were sharp as dagger blades to stab
+his flesh. But if the Prince hesitated it was not for long.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[88]</a></span>
+"Have I come so far to turn back now?" he thought.
+"These others who have died were brave men, and though
+they failed, with a courage as great as theirs I may succeed."
+And without wasting another moment the Prince began to
+force his way through the hedge.</p>
+
+<p>And now he noticed with surprise that those thorns
+which looked so sharp and cruel became soft as thistledown
+as soon as he touched them, and the trailing bramble
+branches did not entangle him but bent aside at his touch
+as though they had been stems of grass. The hedge opened
+before him, and as he went through it pink blossoms of
+wild roses bloomed on the branches, until the tangled wall
+became a mass of flowers.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 329px;">
+<img src="images/i088.png" width="329" height="400" alt="Everything just as it was" title="Everything just as it was" />
+</div>
+
+<p>At last the Prince found himself on the other side of the
+hedge in the gardens of the castle. Before him he could
+see the high towers and turrets bathed in the fresh light of
+the morning sun, and as he hastened towards them he
+noticed that the gardens were as trim and tidy as though
+they had just been tended by the gardeners. There was no
+moss or weed upon the smooth paths, the turf on the lawns
+was as short and firm as though it had just been mown,
+and in the flower-beds everything was in the most careful
+order. Spring flowers were blooming there, but they bowed
+their heads upon their stalks, and even the trees seemed to
+hang their arms as though asleep.</p>
+
+<p>Everywhere there was the same deep silence. The air,
+which should have been full of the twittering of birds,
+was heavy and languorous. There was no flutter of butterfly-wings
+or darting of flies; the fountains on the lawns
+were not playing, and as the Prince glanced over the edge<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[90]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[89]</a></span>
+of the marble basin of one of them he could see the goldfish
+beneath the water-lily leaves lying still, with never a wave
+of the tail or flicker of fin.</p>
+
+
+
+<p>So he went on over the lawns and terraces and never
+a waking thing did he see, but when he came to the courtyard
+he saw a soldier standing there, leaning on his pike
+with his head bent upon his chest. At first the Prince<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[91]</a></span>
+thought that he was dead, but his cheek was fresh and
+ruddy and it was quite plain to see that he was merely
+asleep. In the courtyard itself were other human forms,
+all still and silent. A row of pikemen leaned against the
+wall and in front of them, stretched out upon the ground,
+snored the sergeant who had been drilling them when the
+spell came upon the castle. A young squire, with a sleeping<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[92]</a></span>
+hawk upon his wrist, slept leaning against a sleeping horse
+which he had been about to mount. Near by lay a page
+with a hound in leash, both sleeping as soundly as though
+they never would awake, and through a window in the
+stables the Prince saw a groom lying with a straw in his
+mouth.</p>
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Everyone asleep">
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/i089.png" width="224" height="250" alt="One man asleep" title="One man asleep" />
+</td><td align='left'><img src="images/i090.png" width="380" height="250" alt="Many soldiers asleep" title="Many soldiers asleep" />
+</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+<p>In the stables themselves a like condition of things
+prevailed. The horses slept at their stalls with their noses
+to the mangers, standing on their four legs just as they were
+when they were enchanted a hundred years before, and on
+the back of one of them sat the stable-cat. Here and there
+upon the ground lay grooms and ostlers, fast asleep among
+the straw.</p>
+
+<p>From the stables the Prince made his way to the great
+kitchen where he saw equally strange sights, and he could
+not help smiling when he came upon the cook with her
+hand still outstretched to clout the head of the unhappy
+scullion whom she had by the ear. Before the fires hung
+the spitted partridges and fowls that were cooking for the
+Princess's birthday feast, and at the table a maid had fallen
+asleep with her hands in a large trough full of dough.
+She had been making the pastry for a pie when the sleep
+fell upon her, and by her side was another maid who
+had been plucking a black hen. At the sink a kitchen-knave
+was leaning over the pot he had been scouring.</p>
+
+<p>Then the Prince went out into the great hall and saw
+the courtiers asleep in the window alcoves, or stretched
+out upon the polished floor. Everywhere was a silence so
+profound that the Prince was almost alarmed to hear his
+own breathing, and the beating of his heart sounded like a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[93]</a></span>
+muffled drum. On and on he went, through rooms and
+corridors, up staircases and down staircases, into the Queen's
+chamber where he saw the Queen and her ladies as still
+and silent as the rest; one of those ladies had been reading
+to the Queen at the moment when the charmed sleep fell
+upon the castle, and the book, a History of Troy, still lay
+open on her lap. Then the Prince went into the King's
+room where his Majesty sat with his ministers of state round
+the Council board. He almost lingered there, for it was
+very curious to see those nobles as quiet and motionless as
+though they had been waxworks in a show. Some of
+them were frowning as though in deep thought, and some
+smiling as though they had suddenly remembered something
+clever to say. The King himself, at the head of the
+Council table, had evidently fallen asleep in the very midst
+of a speech, for his arm lay outstretched on the table with
+pointing finger, and, by his side, his secretary's fingers still
+held the pen with which he was inscribing on a roll of
+parchment the royal words.</p>
+
+<p>So the Prince hurried through the castle from top to
+bottom until he had glanced into every room and opened
+every door. And still he knew that there was something
+more to see, for nowhere had he come across the sleeping
+Princess. Many maidens he had seen of surpassing beauty,
+but his heart told him that none of them all was the maiden
+whom he had come to awaken.</p>
+
+<p>Down he went into the courtyard again and found
+another stairway which led to the battlements. There
+stood the watchmen whose duty it was to look out over
+the country and report the arrival of travellers, but they,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[94]</a></span>
+too, were all asleep, though one of them had his horn in
+his hand as though he had been about to blow it when he
+was suddenly overcome by the charmed slumber.</p>
+
+<p>From the battlements the Prince climbed, in turn, into
+each of the turrets, but there was nobody in them at all,
+and no living thing except the owls asleep in the
+crevices of the walls, and the bats that hung head downward
+from the rafters. Now only one small turret remained
+to be explored. It was the oldest of the turrets,
+almost a ruin, and plainly long unused, for the iron door
+was rusty and the ivy trailed about the walls.</p>
+<div class="figright" style="width: 336px;">
+<img src="images/i094.png" width="336" height="400" alt="Kissing the princess" title="Kissing the princess" />
+</div>
+<p>The Prince approached it with a beating heart, for there
+he knew he should find what he sought. He threw open
+the creaking door; with impatient feet he mounted the
+crazy, winding stair, opened the door at the top and
+entered a little dark room.</p>
+
+<p>And then&mdash;and then he started forward with a cry of
+joy and wonder, for lying on the couch below the narrow
+window he saw the Princess.</p>
+
+<p>She was lying upon a couch with her lovely hair spread
+out like a stream of gold; and, oh! no words can tell how
+beautiful she was. Softly the Prince came near and bent
+over her. He touched her hand; it was warm as in life,
+but she did not stir. No sound of breathing came from
+her parted lips, fresh and sweet as the petals of a rose;
+her eyes were closed.</p>
+
+<p>For a long time the Prince stood and gazed upon her,
+for never in all his life had he seen a maiden so lovely.
+Then suddenly he bent down and kissed her lips.</p>
+
+
+
+<p>That was the end of the enchantment. The Princess's<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[96]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[95]</a></span>
+eyelids quivered; languidly she moved her head and
+stretched out her arms. Her eyes opened and she
+smiled.</p>
+
+<p>"Is it you, my Prince?" she said. "How long you
+have kept me waiting!"</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 292px;">
+<img src="images/i095.png" width="292" height="300" alt="The Princess wakes" title="The Princess wakes" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[97]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XI" id="CHAPTER_XI"></a>CHAPTER XI</h2>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>IN that very moment the charm was broken and the
+castle awoke.</div>
+
+
+<p>Instead of the profound silence there came a hustle
+and confusion of noise. Clocks began to strike, doors began
+to slam, dogs began to bark, cocks began to crow and hens
+to cluck; a breeze sprang up outside and set the branches
+of the trees swaying and creaking; the doves began to coo
+upon the roofs, the swallows to twitter under the eaves, flies
+came out and buzzed about the window, mice squeaked in
+the wainscot and ran scampering along the rafters. The
+fountain in the garden leapt up sixty feet into the air, and
+the goldfish swam among the water-lily leaves; ants left
+their nests and foraged about the paths, the butterflies
+danced and fluttered over the flowers, which lifted their
+heads as though to drink in the rays of the sun. In every
+tree in the garden a thrush woke up and began to sing;
+sparrows chirped, jays screamed, blue-tits chattered, and the
+chiff-chaff uttered his strange note. In the woods a cuckoo
+called and blackbird fluted to blackbird in the hedge. In
+the stables the horses awoke and champed at their stalls;
+the cat jumped down and ran after a mouse which crept out<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[98]</a></span>
+from under the straw. The sentry at the courtyard gate
+woke up and rubbed his eyes and came smartly to attention,
+looking round uneasily, for he thought he had only been
+asleep for a few minutes and was afraid that somebody<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[99]</a></span>
+might have seen him who would report him to the sergeant.
+The pikemen also woke with a start, and the sergeant woke
+too, and bellowed an order in a loud and angry voice, for he
+was ashamed of himself for sleeping in front of his men.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[100]</a></span>
+The young squire who was going hawking fitted his falcon's
+hood and mounted his steed; the page-boy with the hound
+went off to his master. On the topmost tower of the castle
+the royal standard, which had been drooping against the
+flagstaff, filled out and waved freely in the breeze.</p>
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="People wake up">
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/i097.png" width="216" height="250" alt="One man awake" title="One man awake" />
+</td><td align='left'><img src="images/i098.png" width="373" height="250" alt="Soldiers awake" title="Soldiers awake" />
+</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+
+<p>The hedge which had grown up to surround the enchanted
+castle broke in and disappeared; peacocks squalled
+and strutted on the lawns, martins flitted to and from their
+nests under the eaves, pigs began to grunt, oxen to low,
+sheep to bleat, rooks to caw and children to laugh and sing.
+In short, all the sounds which we hear every day and all the
+time and never notice, began again and seemed so loud in
+contrast to the deadly silence that they almost cracked
+the ears.</p>
+
+<p>And in every room in the castle the people who had
+been lying asleep for a hundred years woke up and went
+on with what they had been doing just as though nothing
+had happened. In the kitchen the flames of the fire leapt
+up with a hiss and a roar. The kettle began to boil, the
+stew-pot to bubble, and the meat before the fire to steam
+and hiss as the little boy turned the spit.</p>
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="The castle revives">
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/i101.jpg" width="300" height="381" alt="Castle awakens 1" title="Castle awakens 1" />
+</td><td align='left'><img src="images/i102.jpg" width="300" height="378" alt="Castle awakens 2" title="Castle awakens 2" />
+</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<p>"Take that," cried the cook, giving the scullion the
+clout she had promised a hundred years before. "Take
+that for a lazy knave."</p>
+
+<p>"Goodness," yawned the maid who had been plucking
+the black hen; "I wonder what made me drop off to sleep
+like that? Well, well, it's to be hoped the cook didn't see
+me!" And my word, how she made the feathers fly!</p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i104.png" width="400" height="254" alt="Cat pounces" title="Cat pounces" />
+</div>
+
+<p><i>Miaou!</i> cried the cat in disgust as he made a pounce at
+the mouse-hole he had been watching, for the little mouse<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[105]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[104]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[103]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[102]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[101]</a></span>
+who had poked his nose out a hundred years before drew it
+back like a flash and scampered away.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 110px;">
+<img src="images/i105.png" width="110" height="200" alt="Flies above the milk pan" title="Flies above the milk pan" />
+</div>
+<p>"Dear me!" said the servant who was washing the
+dishes; "I do believe I have been to sleep with this crock
+in my hand. It's a mercy I didn't let it fall!" And he
+went on with his scouring. It was the same thing in the
+dairy where the maids had fallen asleep while they were
+skimming the cream and churning the butter. And the
+cream was not sour for all that a hundred years had passed,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[106]</a></span>
+nor was the butter rank. But a fly which had been sleeping
+on the edge of one of the milk-pans woke up and flew down
+to taste the milk, and fell in and was drowned, so he was<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[107]</a></span>
+none the better because the spell had been taken off the
+castle.</p>
+
+
+
+<p>In the Queen's ante-chamber the maids-of-honour and
+the ladies-in-waiting sat up and yawned and stretched themselves.
+Each one of them thought that she was the only
+one who had fallen asleep, and they all began to explain at
+the same time that they had only closed their eyes for forty
+seconds. "It was the heat," they all said to each other.
+"The sun is very hot for this time of year."</p>
+
+<p>In the King's council chamber the King and all his
+ministers woke up with a start. The ministers rubbed their
+eyes and looked very sheepish, for each of them thought
+that he was alone in being caught napping.</p>
+
+<p>"Your Majesty was saying...?" said the Prime
+Minister respectfully, leaning forward.</p>
+
+<p>"I was saying ..." said the King. "What was I
+saying?" And he stretched out his arms and yawned. "I
+crave your pardon, my lords. I do believe I've been asleep.
+Heigho! but my joints are stiff."</p>
+
+<p>"It was but an after-dinner nap," said the Prime Minister.
+"Your Majesty is overspent with the hard hunting yesterday.
+Is it your Majesty's will that we should proceed with
+our business, or shall the Council rise until to-morrow?"</p>
+
+<p>"Go on, my lords, go on," cried the King heartily.
+"My little nap has wonderfully refreshed me. What say
+you, shall we pass that bill we were discussing a few
+minutes ago?"</p>
+
+<p>But at this moment a page came into the room with a
+message from the Queen, and as soon as he received it the
+King left his seat in the council chamber and went to her.</p>
+
+<p>Alone, among all the people in the castle, the Queen had<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[108]</a></span>
+realised immediately she awoke from her charmed sleep,
+exactly what had happened. She remembered the words of
+the fairy godmother, and she knew that what she had foretold
+had come to pass, and that the sleep from which she
+and everybody else in the castle had just awakened had lasted
+a hundred years.</p>
+
+<p>Her first thought was of her daughter, the Princess
+Briar-Rose. Where was she, and what had happened to
+her? If she, too, had merely fallen asleep, all was well, but
+suppose the doom first spoken by the thirteenth fairy had
+taken effect?</p>
+
+<p>In a few words she told the King all that was in her
+mind, and without delay messengers were sent all over the
+castle to look for the Princess.</p>
+
+<p>In the meantime Briar-Rose and the young Prince were
+talking together in the ruined tower. For the first time she
+heard the story of the enchantment, and her eyes grew
+round with wonder as she listened to her lover's account of
+the strange things that had happened in the castle. When
+he told of the great hedge and its cruel thorns, and of the
+many young men who died in trying to force their way
+through it, her eyes filled with tears.</p>
+
+<p>"How great their courage was," she sighed. "Oh, if
+only I could bring them back to life."</p>
+
+<p>But the Prince kissed her tears away, and hastened past
+that part of his tale, and presently she was smiling again
+and happy, because she understood that everything had
+happened as it was bound to happen.</p>
+
+<p>Then the Prince took her hand and raised her from the
+couch on which she had slept so long, and they went down<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[109]</a></span>
+the winding stair together and came to the battlements,
+where they found a score of breathless people who had been
+running up and down in search of her.</p>
+
+<p>And how surprised these people were to find her in that
+place, accompanied by a young man they had never seen
+before! She seemed to have grown more beautiful than
+ever during her long sleep, and they were amazed by her
+loveliness.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i108.png" width="400" height="182" alt="Dancing" title="Dancing" />
+</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[110]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And how may we describe the joy of the King and
+Queen when they saw their daughter again and knew that
+the good fairy had kept her word? The King was so
+delighted that all he could say was "Bless my soul! bless
+my soul!" And the Queen could say nothing at all, for
+she was weeping for joy.</p>
+
+<p>What a feast there was that night! In spite of the
+hundred years that had gone by it was still the Princess's
+birthday, and she was in reality no more than fifteen years
+old, for time had stood still for her. So she had her birthday
+feast just the same, and it was her betrothal feast too,
+for the King joined the hands of the young Prince and his
+daughter and gave them his blessing.</p>
+
+
+<h2>THE END</h2><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[111]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class='center'>
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Sleeping Beauty, by C. S. Evans
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: The Sleeping Beauty
+
+Author: C. S. Evans
+
+Illustrator: Arthur Rackham
+
+Release Date: May 12, 2008 [EBook #25451]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SLEEPING BEAUTY ***
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+
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+Produced by Chris Curnow, Lindy Walsh, Emmy and the Online
+Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
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+
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+
+
+
+
+THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
+
+
+
+
+
+_BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY_
+
+ARTHUR RACKHAM
+
+  CINDERELLA. 7s. 6d. net.
+
+  THE ALLIES' FAIRY BOOK. 7s. 6d. net.
+
+  ALICE IN WONDERLAND. 7s. 6d. net.
+
+  AESOP'S FABLES. 7s. 6d. net.
+
+  MOTHER GOOSE. 7s. 6d. net.
+
+  A CHRISTMAS CAROL. 7s. 6d. net.
+
+  THE SPRINGTIDE OF LIFE POEMS OF CHILDHOOD, by A. C.
+      Swinburne. 10s. 6d. net.
+
+  RIP VAN WINKLE. 10s. 6d. net.
+
+  UNDINE. 12s. 6d. net.
+
+  ARTHUR RACKHAM'S BOOK OF PICTURES. 21s. net.
+
+  THE RING OF THE NIBLUNGS. In Two Vols. Each 21s. net.
+
+  INGOLDSBY LEGENDS. 21s. net.
+
+  A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. 21s. net.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+ THE.SLEEPING
+   BEAUTY
+
+  TOLD.BY.C.S.EVANS
+  AND.ILLUSTRATED.BY
+   ARTHUR.RACKHAM
+
+
+  LONDON.WILLIAM.HEINEMANN
+  PHILADELPHIA.J.B.LIPPINCOTT.Co
+
+
+
+
+LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 1920.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration: BRIAR ROSE]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: ONCE UPON A TIME]
+
+
+
+
+THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I
+
+
+ONCE upon a time there were a King and a Queen who were very unhappy
+because they had no children. Everything else that the heart could wish
+for was theirs. They were rich; they lived in a wonderful palace full of
+the costliest treasures; their kingdom was at peace, and their people
+were prosperous. Yet none of these things contented them, because they
+wanted a little child of their own to love and to care for, and though
+they had been married several years, no child had come to them.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Every day the King would look at the Queen and say: "Ah, if we only had
+a little child," and the Queen would look at the King and sigh, and they
+were both very miserable about it. Then they would put on their golden
+crowns and sit side by side on their thrones, while lords and ladies
+and ambassadors from other lands came to pay them homage, and they had
+to smile with their lips for the sake of politeness, but there was no
+joy in their hearts. And that is one of the greatest disadvantages of
+being a King or a Queen, that one has always to hide one's feelings.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Now it happened one day that the Queen went to her bath, and having
+dismissed her ladies, she descended the marble steps into the water
+and began idly to play with some wild rose-petals which had fallen into
+the water. All of a sudden she heard a croaking voice that said: "O
+Queen, be cheerful, for the dearest wish of your heart will be granted
+you."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Who is that?" cried the Queen, a little frightened, for she could see
+nobody.
+
+"Look behind you," croaked the voice, "and do not be afraid, for I come
+only to bear you good tidings."
+
+So the Queen looked behind her, and there was a great frog who looked at
+her with its big round eyes.
+
+Now the Queen was afraid of frogs, because they are cold and clammy, but
+she was very polite by nature as well as breeding, so she did not show
+her dislike, though she could not help shrinking back a little.
+
+"And do you tell me, Master Frog," said she, "that I shall have the wish
+of my heart, and do you know what that wish may be?"
+
+"It is to have a little small child of your own," said the Frog; and the
+Queen nodded.
+
+"Very well," the Frog went on, "do you see the green leaves of that
+almond tree on the branch by the window?"
+
+"I do," replied the Queen wonderingly.
+
+"Those green leaves will fade," said the Frog, "and the winter winds
+will blow them away. Then the branch will be bare, but in spring-time,
+before the leaves come again, it will be covered with pink blossom, and
+that blossom you shall show to a baby lying at your breast."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Queen gave a cry of joy. A ray of sunlight came through the trees,
+dazzling her eyes so that she had to close them for a moment. When she
+opened them again the frog had gone, and nothing was to be seen but the
+dainty rose-petals floating on the surface of the water.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II
+
+
+THOSE were wonderful tidings to be spoken by a frog who came no one knew
+whence and went no one knew whither. But the Queen believed that the
+prophecy would prove true, and she was right, for when the Spring time
+came again and the almond blossom was pink upon the bough, she gave
+birth to a little daughter who was so beautiful that nobody had ever
+seen her like.
+
+Now what joy there was in the hearts of everybody in the palace! The
+King was so excited that he went into council in his dressing-gown
+instead of his royal robe, and he did not care a bit when his courtiers
+smiled. There was coming and going in all the halls and corridors.
+Couriers on swift horses were sent out to bear the glad news to the most
+distant parts of the kingdom. All the bells in the churches were rung;
+flags were put out in the houses and streamers were hung across the
+roadways. Then the cannons were fired, bang, bang, bang, to tell the
+people that everybody was to have a holiday, so that all, from the
+highest to the lowest, might rejoice in their Queen's happiness.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Never was there such a beautiful child," said the King, looking down at
+his little daughter as she lay in her mother's arms. He wanted very much
+to nurse her, but this could not be allowed, because men are so clumsy
+with babies.
+
+"What shall her name be?" said the King. And he suggested all the
+grandest names he could call to mind, for he thought that such a
+wonderful child must certainly have a name to suit. But the Queen would
+have none of them.
+
+"She shall be called Briar-Rose," said the Queen; and so it was
+arranged.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A few weeks later the christening took place. That was a splendid
+ceremony to be sure, for all the lords and ladies of the kingdom were
+present in their richest dresses, together with princes and ambassadors
+from distant countries. The little Princess was as good as gold all the
+time. She did not cry once, but opened her big blue eyes and smiled at
+the glittering company as though she understood everything that was
+going on.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Outside the cathedral the roads were crowded with people waiting to see
+the guests come and go. The carriages extended for nearly a mile, and as
+they drove away, headed by the royal coach, in which the Queen sat with
+the Princess Briar-Rose in her arms, the spectators took off their hats
+and shouted and cheered. Some of the little boys perched themselves on
+the branches of trees and the lamp-posts in order to get a better view,
+and I have been told that there was one poor woman who saw nothing at
+all, because her boy tried to climb up to an inn sign, where he dangled
+in such a dangerous position that his poor old mother had to stand with
+her back to the procession, holding on to his legs in a terrible state
+of anxiety lest he should fall.
+
+At the palace, a magnificent feast had been prepared.
+
+Now it was the custom in those days, when a King's child was christened,
+for all the fairies in the country to be invited to the christening
+feast. Each fairy was bound to bring a gift, so of course it stood to
+reason that the royal child would have everything that the heart could
+possibly desire.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+There were thirteen fairies in the King's realm, but one of them lived
+in a lonely place on the outskirts of the kingdom. There, for the last
+fifty years, she had shut herself up in a ruined tower with only a black
+cat to keep her company, and as she kept herself to herself, everybody
+had forgotten her very existence. The result was that she was not
+invited to the christening feast, and though she had nobody but herself
+to blame for this, she was very angry about it. The truth of the matter
+is that she was always a miserable, sour creature, with no love or
+kindness in her heart, and nobody missed her because she had never given
+anybody any reason to care for her.
+
+Well, the guests assembled in the banqueting hall of the palace and the
+feast began.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III
+
+
+THE King and the Queen sat on a dais at the end of the banqueting hall,
+and above them in a little gallery there was a band of fiddlers and
+flute-players. On either side of the royal pair sat the twelve fairy
+godmothers, six on the right hand and six on the left. In front of each
+fairy was a golden plate and a golden casket made to hold her knife,
+fork and spoon. These caskets were beautifully carved and engraved, and
+each one was of a different shape. One was in the form of a ship,
+another of a shell, a third in the form of a castle with turrets, and so
+on; nothing more beautiful could be imagined, for they had all been
+specially made for the occasion by the cleverest goldsmiths in the
+kingdom, and they were the King's presents to the fairy godmothers. He
+felt very proud when the fairies spoke admiringly of these caskets and
+said that they would be pleased to accept them.
+
+Below the dais were six long tables for the guests, and there was only
+just room between the tables for the servants to pass, so you may judge
+how crowded the room was. Such a glittering of silks, such a flashing of
+jewels, such a dazzle and splendour had never been seen since the time
+of the King's coronation, and all the guests were laughing and talking
+merrily. The court painter was there, of course, to make a picture of
+the gorgeous scene, and was kept so busy sketching on his tablets that
+he had no time to get any food, though probably he had a good meal
+afterwards.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+And the nice things there were to eat! There were:
+
+        Force-meat balls flavoured with rare spices from the East;
+        Sardines from Sardinia;
+        Tunny fish from the Mediterranean and Sturgeon from Russia;
+        Steaming boars' heads with lemons in their mouths;
+        Turkeys, peacocks and swans;
+        Ortolans;
+        Wonderful roasts and delicious stews;
+        Roe deer and Bears' hams;
+
+[Illustration]
+
+        Sweets in all sorts of curious shapes, as, for
+          instance, cakes like castles with little men
+          made of sweet-stuff for sentries on the
+          battlements, each complete in gilded armour and
+          with a halberd over his shoulder. (A rare
+          sight!) And eagles carved of ice hovering over
+          silver dishes filled with apricots.
+
+Then followed the smaller dishes:
+
+        Tiny cakes as white and delicate as ladies'
+          fingers;
+
+        Birds' nests made of spun sugar (and in the
+          nests were eggs of marsh-mallow, and in each
+          egg was a tiny chicken made of caramel!);
+
+        Figs and dates from the desert;
+
+        Other fruits, in and out of season;
+
+        Syrups and preserves fetched from the four
+          corners of the world;
+
+        Wines cooled in snow from the distant
+          mountains.
+
+One might fill pages merely by setting down the names of all the
+delicacies.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Each dish was brought in by the servants in a kind of procession, headed
+by the Master-Cook, looking as grand and solemn as an archbishop, for he
+was a grave and dignified person, and of course he had a great
+responsibility. The guests were served by little page-boys of noble
+birth, dressed in the liveries of their masters, and these pages handed
+the dishes and the wines most politely on their bended knees as they had
+been taught to do.
+
+So the guests enjoyed themselves, and the fiddlers played, and the King
+laughed at everything everybody said, because he was in a mighty good
+humour, and the bright afternoon sun, shining through the western
+windows, lighted up the rich hangings on the walls, and flashed upon the
+jewels on fair ladies' fingers, and fell upon the marble pavement in a
+pool of gold.
+
+And then, you know, when the merriment was at its height, something
+happened! There was a sudden cry, and a harsh voice, like the croaking
+of a raven, sounded through the room.
+
+"Be merry, my lords and ladies," cried the voice. "Laugh while you may,
+but remember that tears may follow laughter."
+
+A hush fell upon all the brilliant assembly. The Queen turned pale and
+shuddered. The King rose hurriedly from his place, and he and all the
+guests turned to look at the strange figure that had suddenly appeared
+in the doorway.
+
+They saw an old woman bent almost double with age, her grey head with
+matted hair sunk deep between her shoulders. Her face was white and
+twisted with anger, and her green eyes flashed spitefully.
+
+Slowly she advanced towards the dais, and stretching out her arm,
+pointed her finger at the gold plates and the gold caskets set before
+the fairy godmothers. "There's one," said she, with a harsh laugh,
+"there's two, there's twelve! Did you not know, O King, that there were
+thirteen wise women in your kingdom, and the thirteenth the wisest and
+most powerful of all? Where, then, is the plate and the casket set for
+me?"
+
+The King began to make excuses, imploring the angry old fairy to forgive
+him for his neglect, and begging her to sit down and join them in their
+festivities. "For," said he, "I am sure you are very welcome."
+
+"Is it so, indeed?" said the thirteenth fairy. "I am not too late, then,
+though the feast is all but done. I shall eat off silver while my
+sisters eat off gold, and there is no curiously-shaped casket for me. No
+matter, I am content, because I am in time, and I shall dower the
+Princess with the gift which I have brought for her!" And here the
+spiteful creature uttered another of her sneering laughs, which made the
+blood of all the guests run cold.
+
+By dint of much coaxing the King at last managed to persuade her to sit
+down, and the feast proceeded. But a chill had been cast over the
+assembly, and nothing was quite the same as it had been before. The old
+crone muttered and mouthed over her food, now and again smiling to
+herself as though she were cherishing some secret and evil triumph. The
+other fairies cast anxious glances at her, for they feared her malice,
+and the youngest fairy of all, who happened to be seated at the end of
+the table, presently rose up quietly from her place and, stealing away,
+hid herself behind the arras. And nobody saw her go, nor did a single
+person remark upon her absence.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV
+
+
+AND now came the time for the most important part of the ceremony, when
+the fairy godmothers should declare their gifts to the royal child. All
+this time the little Princess Briar-Rose had been quietly sleeping in
+her cradle in the nursery, watched over by an old servant who had tended
+her mother as a child. Now the King gave orders for the baby to be
+brought into the banqueting hall. The guests ceased their laughter and
+talk, and the musicians laid by their instruments.
+
+So the sleeping child was brought and placed in her mother's arms. How
+tenderly she clasped the baby to her breast, bending over it as though
+to shield it from all harm. So sweet a sight should have touched the
+hardest heart, and indeed there was only one person in the room who
+remained unmoved, and that was the spiteful and jealous fairy, who
+looked up and bared her yellow teeth in a sneering grin.
+
+"Queen," said she, "your face is pale and your lips tremble. What is it
+that you fear on this day of the giving of gifts?"
+
+But the Queen shuddered and was silent.
+
+Then a fairy rose in her place and said--
+
+"I will begin. My gift to the Princess Briar-Rose is the gift of Beauty.
+She shall have eyes like stars, and hair as bright as the sunshine of
+the spring day on which she was born, and cheeks as fresh and fair as
+the petals of the flower from which she takes her name. None shall
+surpass her in loveliness."
+
+Then the second fairy rose in her turn and said: "After Beauty, Wit. The
+Princess shall be cleverer than any ordinary mortal could ever hope to
+be."
+
+"I give her Virtue," said the third. And the Queen nodded her head and
+smiled, for though she esteemed beauty and cleverness, she knew that
+neither was of any worth without goodness of heart.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+So all the fairies in turn named the gift which they had brought for
+Briar-Rose. The fourth said that whatever the Princess put her hand to,
+she should do with the most exquisite grace; the fifth, that she should
+sing like a nightingale; the sixth that she should dance as lightly as
+a fairy, and so on until she had nearly all the virtues and
+accomplishments which even a King might desire for his daughter. But as
+yet, the spiteful old fairy had not said a word.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+At last she rose and cast an evil glance round.
+
+"Have you all finished?" said she. "Hear, then, my wish. On the day when
+she reaches her fifteenth birthday, the Princess shall prick her finger
+with the spindle of a spinning-wheel, and shall immediately die!"
+
+This terrible prophecy made the whole company shudder. The Queen gave a
+cry and hugged the sleeping baby still closer to her breast.
+
+"No, no! Have pity!" she cried. "Call down your dreadful fate on my head
+if you will, but do not harm this innocent child."
+
+At this mournful appeal there was hardly one of the guests who could
+keep from tears, but the old crone only mumbled to herself as though she
+were uttering a spell. Then the King leapt to his feet, his hand at the
+jewelled hilt of the dagger that hung at his girdle. In another moment
+he might have stretched the wicked creature lifeless at his feet, but
+before he could draw the weapon from its sheath, another voice arrested
+him.
+
+"Stay your hand, O King, lest even worse befall. No mortal may strike at
+a fairy and go unpunished. And, for the rest, take comfort, for your
+daughter shall not die!"
+
+Then the twelfth fairy stepped out from behind the arras where she had
+been hidden. "My gift is still to come," she continued. "As far as I
+can, I will undo the mischief which my sister has done. It is true that
+I have not the power to prevent altogether what she has decreed. The
+Princess shall, indeed, prick her finger with the spindle of the
+spinning-wheel on the day when she attains her fifteenth year; but
+instead of dying she shall fall into a deep sleep; and this sleep shall
+last for a hundred years, and when that time is past, a King's son shall
+come to waken her."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V
+
+
+SO the worst was averted, but the fate of the poor little Princess was
+still terrible enough, and it was only to be expected that the King
+should do his best to prevent the prophecy from coming to fulfilment.
+
+The first thing he did was to summon all the magicians of his own and
+neighbouring countries, promising a rich reward to the one who could
+show him a way to defeat the old fairy's malice. The magicians came in
+scores, some with long beards reaching to their feet, some without any
+beards at all, some with bald heads, and some with matted hair that
+looked as though it had not been combed for centuries. For days there
+were so many magicians about the palace that they were commoner than
+cats, and it was impossible to enter any room without surprising one or
+the other of them, sitting in deep reflection and looking as wise as
+only a magician can look. But nothing came of their thinking, and one
+after the other they gave up the task and departed, having first asked
+for their travelling expenses.
+
+At last there came a wizard who was wiser and more venerable than all
+the rest, and when he heard what was required of him he said he would go
+home and consult his secret books which contained the magic lore of all
+the ages, and which had been written by the greatest of all the
+magicians, Merlin himself.
+
+Home, then, he went, to his cell, which was in a rocky cliff on the side
+of a mountain, and having uttered the word of power which unlocked the
+massive door, he entered and prepared to begin his researches.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Now the books of magic lore which Merlin had written were in many
+volumes, and everything in them was set down in alphabetical order, so
+that it could be found easily. The old wizard, therefore, turned first
+of all to the word _Princess_. Five hundred pages were devoted to this
+subject, and, truly, there was a great deal of very interesting
+information. As thus:--
+
+    PRINCESS: How to transform Goosegirl into.
+
+        Spell for causing Princess to be surrounded
+        with high walls of bronze, which may by no
+        means be broken down except by the notes of a
+        certain trumpet (_q.v._).
+
+(Now _q.v._ are the first letters of two magic words which are to be
+found in all dictionaries and encyclopaedias to this day).
+
+     PRINCESS: Enchanted ring for.
+
+        A new and improved method by which she may be
+        changed into a fawn together with any members
+        of her family according to desire, and all of
+        them transformed back again into their proper
+        shape.
+
+     PRINCESS: An excellent device for causing a
+        Princess to grow tall or short by eating of a
+        mushroom, with directions how to find the place
+        where the mushroom grows, and precautions to be
+        taken lest by over-much nibbling she disappear
+        altogether.
+
+And so on. But there was never a word about how to prevent a Princess
+from falling into a charmed sleep through pricking her finger with the
+spindle of a spinning-wheel.
+
+So when he had read all through the five hundred pages, the venerable
+wizard turned to the word _Sleep_, in the hope that he would meet with
+better fortune.
+
+And there was much reliable information under this heading also. There
+were recipes for potent drugs which would cause sleep, and for still
+more potent drugs which would prevent people from going to sleep, and
+when the wizard came to this last he cried out eagerly, for he thought
+that he had succeeded in his quest, until he read on and discovered that
+the spell described was only for use on wicked Queens who had shamefully
+ill-used their step-children. It is very easy to make a mistake in
+magic, for it is a most complicated science.
+
+By the time he had read through the two hundred pages devoted to the
+word _Sleep_, the venerable wizard was very uneasy, but he was a
+persevering person and he did not abandon his endeavours. Merlin's wise
+books having failed him, he cast about for other means to learn what he
+desired, and consulted his oracle.
+
+Now his oracle was a stuffed crocodile hanging from the ceiling, and a
+voice came from it which told him to repeat the magic formula.
+
+The magic formula is a sentence made up of all the sounds that are left
+out of ordinary speech, and it is a fearsome thing to listen to. It is
+also very exhausting to say, and after the venerable wizard had repeated
+it, he was obliged to rest for several hours. Then he rose again and
+drew pentagons on the rocky floor of his cave, and crossed triangles and
+circles bordered with all the signs of the Zodiac. And he stood in the
+middle of the pentagons and the crossed triangles and the circles and
+went through all sorts of strange and secret rites, but all to no
+purpose.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+But still he would not give up trying; and he went to mysterious places
+in the woods and gathered strange herbs in the dark of the moon. And,
+returning home, he cast the herbs into a brazier and they burnt with
+flames of many colours, giving out clouds of dense smoke and a most
+horrible smell. Then, as these exercises did not bring him the result
+he desired, he gazed into crystals and poured ink into the palm of his
+hand, and did all the other things that he had learnt to do in all the
+years since he was apprenticed to magic as a very small boy.
+
+And just as he was going to give up the quest in despair, a thought came
+into his head, and he cried aloud for joy, for he knew he had discovered
+what he sought. This shows how even the most difficult things may be
+attained by perseverance and patience.
+
+At the top of his speed he hastened back to the palace and asked an
+audience of the King. This was immediately granted, for, to tell the
+truth, the King was awaiting his return with considerable anxiety.
+
+"Well," said he, "have you succeeded in finding a way?"
+
+"I have," answered the venerable wizard. "My arts have not failed me!"
+And he handed the King a piece of parchment on which were written the
+following words. They were written in Latin to make them look more
+important, but very likely it was not good Latin, for the venerable
+wizard had been apprenticed to his trade at an early age, and in
+consequence his classical education had been somewhat neglected. But
+this was the meaning of them:
+
+        Shall spindle prick?--then spindle burn,
+        No thread weave and no wheel turn;
+        If there's no spindle and there's no wheel,
+        Then no finger the spindle can feel.
+
+The King slapped his thigh for joy. "Why, of course!" said he. "How is
+it that I did not myself think of such a simple solution? It seems to
+me, Wizard, that you have easily earned your thousand crowns!"
+
+"Ah, Majesty," the wizard made answer, "all things are simple when once
+you know them."
+
+And in this he was quite right.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI
+
+
+THE King lost no time in putting the wizard's counsel into effect. The
+very next day he caused a proclamation to be written, and ordered copies
+of it to be fixed on all the church doors, and in all the public places
+of every town in his kingdom. This is the way the proclamation read:
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  WHEREAS a certain malicious fairy, forgetful of the
+    duties she owes to the most high and puissant King
+    and Queen, rightful sovereigns of these realms, and
+    to the Princess Briar-Rose, their dearly loved daughter,
+    has, of malice aforethought, and with intent to work
+    grievous bodily harm to the person of the said Princess,
+    in the presence of the said most puissant Sovereigns
+    and of divers of their loyal subjects made and uttered
+    a prophecy, to wit: that the said Princess shall in her
+    fifteenth year prick her finger with the spindle of a
+    spinning-wheel, and that a certain dire misfortune
+    shall fall upon her because of that injury, to the sorrow
+    of her loving parents: NOW BE IT DECREED
+    That all spinning-wheels or instruments of spinning
+    whatsoever, in the possession of any subjects of the
+    King's most excellent Majesty, whether they be
+    worked by hand or by treadle or by any other device,
+    together with all spindles, shuttles, bobbins, and all
+    other accessories or appurtenances thereunto belonging,
+    shall forthwith be rendered up to the officers of the
+    King's most excellent Majesty appointed to receive
+    them. AND BE IT FURTHER DECREED
+    That if any person or persons fail to observe or obey
+    this edict or ordinance by unlawfully retaining any
+    instrument of spinning or accessory thereunto, such
+    persons shall be dealt with according to the full rigour
+    of the law, and shall suffer the penalty of death.
+
+                     Given under our royal hand and seal.]
+
+The issue of this proclamation caused a great deal of interest and
+excitement throughout the kingdom. All the people came out of their
+houses to gaze at it, for they had never seen its like before, and
+though very few of them knew how to read they realised that it must mean
+something very important. So they sent for clerks and scholars to read
+it to them, paying a penny apiece for the service, which pennies, the
+clerks and scholars, being usually extraordinarily needy persons, were
+very glad to earn. It usually took about three hours to read the
+proclamation and to explain it; and one must admit that it might have
+been expressed in fewer words. To do so, however, would not have been
+dignified, for this proclamation was what is called a legal instrument.
+
+The very next day into each town and village of the kingdom the King's
+officers came riding. Before them went a trumpeter who stopped at the
+head of each street and blew a loud call. Having thus commanded
+attention he marched past the houses calling in a loud voice:
+
+"Bring out your spinning-wheels. Bring out your spinning-wheels!"
+
+So the people brought them out, not without grumbling, for a
+spinning-wheel is a very useful thing to have in a house, and in those
+days people spun and wove their own cloth to make their clothes. But
+they were afraid to disobey the King's order.
+
+And the spinning-wheels were of all shapes and sizes, some of them new
+and some of them hundreds of years old, and there was hardly a house
+that did not possess one of some kind or another. They were all
+collected together and loaded into waggons and taken to the capital,
+where they were piled up into an immense heap in the public square.
+
+Then the King and Queen and all the court came out and watched while the
+big heap was set on fire. The people came out to watch too in their
+thousands, and a very fine sight it was to see the enormous flames
+shooting up into the air and to hear the crackle and hiss of the burning
+wood that sounded like the discharge of a hundred muskets.
+
+The King laughed aloud in his relief, and even the Queen smiled, while
+the little Princess Briar-Rose, who was held up to a window of the
+palace to see the bonfire, stretched out her arms to the pretty flames
+and crowed. But the people were not very much amused by the sight
+because they were their spinning-wheels which were being burnt.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"I've had my wheel for twenty years," said one woman, "and now I've none
+at all, and how on earth I can get along without it I don't know, with
+six growing lads to find breeches for!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Five silver crowns my wheel cost my good man last Candlemass," said
+another, "and there it goes up in flames and smoke."
+
+"What is a wheel if the burning of it saves our little Princess?" quoth
+a third. "Come, cheer up, Mother, the King has reason for what he does
+and he will not see us want."
+
+And this man was right. The King had no wish to oppress his subjects,
+for no sooner was the pile reduced to ashes than he caused another
+proclamation to be issued, saying that the owner of every spinning-wheel
+should be paid for its loss. And not only so, but the King told his
+merchants to buy spun yarn from neighbouring countries so that the
+people might be able to weave, even though they could not spin.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII
+
+
+THE little Princess Briar-Rose, of course, knew nothing of the strange
+events that had happened at the feast of her christening, and the King
+gave orders that nobody should even mention the subject to her. It is
+not a pleasant thing to know that the fairies have decreed that one
+shall fall asleep for a hundred years on one's fifteenth birthday, even
+though one is to be awakened by a handsome Prince at the end of that
+time. So all the lords-in-waiting and the ladies-in-waiting had to be
+very careful and discreet. If they told the Princess a story, they had
+to keep the word "spinning" out of it; and if they showed her a book
+they had to take pains to see it did not contain a picture of a
+spinning-wheel, or any reference to a distaff or spindle, lest she
+should ask what they were. The King's Customs officers, on the
+boundaries of the kingdom, had to examine every waggon-load of
+merchandise that came into the country for fear it should contain a
+spinning-wheel; and if anybody was found trying to smuggle one in he was
+brought before the judges and punished.
+
+By these devices the King felt certain that he had averted the fate laid
+upon his daughter.
+
+But the promises of the other wise women were fulfilled to the letter,
+for the young Princess grew up to be the most beautiful, gifted and
+gracious maiden in all the world. That, at any rate, was what everybody
+in the palace said, from the lords and ladies down to the scullions in
+the kitchen, and although people are inclined sometimes to flatter
+Royalty, in this case there was reason for their admiration.
+
+To begin with, the Princess was as lovely as a spring morning, with eyes
+of the purest, softest blue, and hair in which the rays of the sun
+seemed to be entangled. When she came into a room people stopped
+whatever they were doing to look at her, and everyone felt happier
+because she was there.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+And her cleverness! She never had any trouble with her letters or her
+multiplication table. She could cipher as easily as she could spell; she
+knew the history of her own country and of every country round it; and
+nobody could puzzle her with the hardest question in geography. She
+could sew and embroider, and knit and paint and draw; she could repeat
+poetry in five different languages; she studied mathematics and botany
+and astronomy and even law. In short, there was no end to her knowledge,
+and all because she had those fairies for her godmothers.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Besides this, there were all her other accomplishments; she could play
+on all sorts of musical instruments, as, for instance, fiddle and
+zither, large harp and jew's-harp, church organ and mouth organ, flute
+and penny-whistle, and even on the nursery comb; she could sing like a
+nightingale and dance like a fairy.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+And yet she was never conceited or puffed-up, as some good-looking and
+accomplished people are apt to be. On the contrary, she was always
+sweet-tempered and modest, and for this reason she was loved. People may
+admire good looks and a graceful deportment, and they may respect
+ability, but it is only sweetness of nature and goodness of heart that
+can win love. And these things were the gift of the third fairy.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+So the years passed, and at last came the day when the Princess
+Briar-Rose was fifteen years of age.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+What a day that was! Everybody came to wish her many happy returns, and
+she had so many presents that at least a dozen servants were kept busy
+unwrapping the parcels. The King gave her a white pony with a saddle of
+red velvet, and bridle and stirrups of gold, while the Queen's present
+was a beautiful and costly necklace of pearls. Even the boy who turned
+the spit in the kitchen brought her something, and though it was only a
+little wooden shoe which he had carved with his own hands, the Princess
+prized it just as much as though it had been made of gold.
+
+The only person who was not happy on the Princess's birthday was the
+Queen, and she went about with a pale face and a look of great anxiety.
+
+"Come, come, my love," said the King, "what is the matter with you?
+Surely you are not thinking of that foolish old prophecy!"
+
+"How can I help thinking about it?" the Queen answered. "I have not been
+able to get it out of my mind for fifteen years, and now that the day
+has come I am afraid."
+
+"Make your mind easy," said the King. "Nothing is going to happen. Why,
+there's not a spinning-wheel within a hundred miles. I have taken good
+care of that!" And he went away chuckling, to attend a meeting of his
+Cabinet. But the Queen shook her head.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Now while the King and Queen were talking, the Princess Briar-Rose was
+wandering about in the castle, visiting room after room, as she had done
+many times before. The castle was so big that a stranger might easily
+have been lost in its maze of stairways and corridors, but Briar-Rose
+knew every part of it quite well, from the great kitchens below ground,
+where on feast days a score of cooks prepared the dinner for hundreds of
+guests, to the topmost turret above the battlements, where the sentries
+kept watch with their pikes on their shoulders. There was only one part
+of the castle which Briar-Rose had never explored, and that was an
+ancient tower which rose from the eastern end. The door of that tower
+was always locked, and although the Princess had often tried to find
+the key she had never succeeded. The servants told her that the tower
+had not been inhabited for nearly a hundred years, and it had never been
+entered within the memory of anybody in the castle.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+To-day Briar-Rose flitted restlessly from place to place. She peeped
+into the kitchen and saw the kitchen boys turning the spits on which
+whole oxen were being roasted. Then she went into the empty throne room
+and saw the golden thrones side by side upon the dais, and the rich
+tapestry, glowing with all the colours of the rainbow, on the walls.
+After that she mounted to the battlements from which she could see over
+miles and miles of her father's kingdom, and not content with that, she
+ran up the staircases into the turrets and looked through their narrow
+slits of windows upon the courtyard below, so far down that the people
+walking therein seemed no bigger than mice. And then she came down again
+and continued her wanderings, searching in all sorts of out-of-the-way
+corners, until at last she found herself before the door of the ancient
+tower into which she had never been. And as she looked at the door, she
+gave a start of surprise and then a cry of joy.
+
+There was a key in the lock.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII
+
+
+IT was a rusty key, and Briar-Rose was afraid that she might not be able
+to turn it, but to her surprise it turned quite easily. The heavy door
+swung inward on its ancient hinges with many a creak and groan, and she
+found herself in a little dark room thickly carpeted with the dust of
+years. From this room a winding staircase led upward, and Briar-Rose was
+just about to climb the stair when a sudden noise made her start back in
+alarm.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+_Whirr!_ There was a beating of wings, a flurry and a scuffle, and past
+her face flew a dark shape, with gleaming, yellow eyes. It was only an
+owl who was hiding in the tower out of the sunlight, but he gave poor
+Briar-Rose a great fright, and she was in two minds whether to turn back
+or not, but the winding staircase looked very inviting and she wanted to
+see whither it led, so gathering up her skirts to avoid any creepy
+things that might be crawling about, she ran up the stairway as fast as
+she could, round and round until she reached the top. There she came
+upon another door.
+
+In this door also was a rusty key, and Briar-Rose turned it as easily as
+she had turned the first. Then she pushed open the door and entered.
+
+She found herself in a small room lighted by narrow windows. Beneath one
+of these windows was a couch, and in front of it sat an old woman with a
+spinning-wheel.
+
+"Good-morrow, Motherkin," said the Princess. "What are you doing?"
+
+"I am spinning, my pretty child," answered the old woman without ceasing
+her work.
+
+"Spinning?" asked the Princess. "Oh, do let me see! What is that thing
+which goes round so merrily?"
+
+"That is the spinning-wheel," said the old woman. "Why, child, you speak
+as though you had never seen such a thing before."
+
+"Indeed, I have not," said the Princess. "How interesting it is! I
+wonder whether I could do it as well as you. Will you let me try?"
+
+"Why, of course," said the old woman, "every young girl should know how
+to spin. Here you are, my dear," and she gave Briar-Rose the spindle.
+
+Now whether the Princess in her eagerness to seize the spindle grasped
+it too roughly, or whether it was just because the fairy had ordained
+that it should be so, I do not know, but anyhow the sharp iron point
+pricked her hand, and immediately she fell backward on to the couch in a
+deep sleep.
+
+And in that very moment sleep fell upon every man, woman and child in
+the castle, and upon every living thing within its gates. The King, who
+was sitting at the Council-board with his ministers, stopped speaking in
+the middle of a sentence, and remained with his mouth open, in the act
+of uttering a word, and nobody remarked the strangeness of his conduct,
+for all his ministers were asleep too, just as they sat. Outside the
+door the sentry leaned upon his pike. In the Queen's chamber the
+ladies-in-waiting fell into a profound slumber in the very midst of what
+they were doing--one as she was hemming a handkerchief, another over her
+embroidery, still another while she was talking to her parrot. The Queen
+slept in her chair, and a little page-boy who was singing fell asleep in
+the middle of a note.
+
+All through the castle the charmed slumber spread. Courtiers, officers,
+stewards, cooks, errand-boys, soldiers, beadles,--nay the very horses in
+the stables and the dogs in their kennels were stricken motionless as
+though they were dead. The flies ceased to buzz at the windows and the
+pigeons to coo upon the roof. In the great kitchen the scullions fell
+asleep as they were washing up the dishes, and a cook in the very act of
+boxing the ears of a kitchen-knave.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+But not for a hundred years would he feel that blow, or be able to utter
+the cry that was on the tip of his tongue. The dog fell asleep under
+the table as he was gnawing a bone; the cat in front of a mouse-hole,
+the mouse itself on the other side of the skirting-board, with its
+little sharp nose outstretched to sniff the air suspiciously. Even the
+spits which were turning at the fire, laden with partridges and
+pheasants cooking for the Princess's birthday feast--even they ceased to
+turn, and the very fire stopped flickering and the flames sank down.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A deep silence fell over the castle. In the fields the lambs ceased to
+bleat, the horses to neigh and the cows to low. The birds in the trees
+were silent. One moment the air was full of the music of their
+twittering; the next, all was as still as in a desert. The very wind
+dropped to sleep in the woods; not a leaf stirred, and the white clouds
+were motionless in the sky.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+So sleep fell upon the enchanted castle and upon all within it, because
+of the Princess Briar-Rose, who lay there on her couch in the ancient
+tower waiting till the hundred years should be past and the Prince
+should come to waken her.
+
+And all round the castle there grew up a hedge of thorn, tangled with
+ivy, woodbine and creeping plants, so dense that from a distance it
+seemed like a little wood. Higher and higher it grew, closing round the
+castle like a wall until all that could be seen was the top of the
+highest tower, and the flagstaff from which the royal standard hung limp
+and motionless.
+
+And the years went by, each with its changing seasons. Spring came and
+brought to the fields and woods outside the new life of leaf and flower.
+The trees awoke from their winter sleep and clothed themselves
+gloriously in green; the birds began to sing again and the swallows and
+martins built their nests under the eaves; children laughed and clapped
+their hands because they were happy in the bright sunshine, and old
+people felt their hearts filled with joy when they saw the mist of
+bluebells in the woods and the daffodils dancing in the breeze.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+But within the thorn hedge no life stirred, and neither flower nor tree
+answered the call of spring.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+As time went on, the people who were young when the palace was enchanted
+grew old and died, but they never forgot the prophecy that one of these
+days the sleeping Princess should awaken; and they told the story to
+their children, who told it in their turn, changing it a little because
+it was only a tale to them. And so, after many years, the legend spread
+abroad to neighbouring countries, and many a young prince dreamed that
+it was he who was destined to break the spell and waken the sleeping
+Princess.
+
+Now and again one would take the quest upon him and try to force his way
+through the thick hedge. But no one succeeded. The sharp thorns gripped
+the unhappy young men like clutching hands, and held them fast, so that
+they could neither go forward nor back, and they perished miserably.
+Their bones, whitened by the sun and wind, remained there as a warning
+for all to see, and the creeping plants grew over them.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IX
+
+
+A HUNDRED years passed away. At the end of that time it happened one day
+that a young Prince who was hunting in the neighbourhood caught sight of
+the towers of the enchanted castle rising above the dense forest. He had
+never been in that part of the country before, and had heard nothing of
+the story of the Sleeping Princess, so he asked the first people he met
+what those towers were, and to whom the castle belonged.
+
+Everybody told him a different tale. One said that it was an old castle
+haunted by spirits; another, that it was a meeting-place for all the
+witches and sorcerers in the land, who gathered there to practise their
+secret rites.
+
+"No, no," said a third. "That castle is the home of a giant, and all the
+people in these parts are very much afraid of him, so I have been told,
+because he steals their cattle and their crops, and even carries off
+their children to be his servants. And they cannot go to the rescue of
+those he has imprisoned in this way, because of the forest all round the
+castle, which is so dense that nobody can force his way through."
+
+And so they went on, one saying one thing, and one another, for each
+repeated what he had heard. At last an old peasant stepped forward.
+
+"Fifty years ago, my Prince," said he, "my father told me the story of
+that castle, and since he was born in these parts, I think it was the
+true story, and I will tell it you if you would like to hear it."
+
+The Prince nodded eagerly, and the old man went on:
+
+"My father said that years before he himself was born a King and Queen
+lived in the castle with their daughter, the most beautiful Princess
+that ever was seen. In some way or other they angered the fairies, who
+put a spell upon the place and upon every one within it, so that they
+fell into a deep sleep. My father said that this sleep would last a
+hundred years, but at the end of that time a King's son should come and
+waken the beautiful Princess and make her his bride."
+
+When the young Prince heard these words he felt his heart beat quickly.
+Something seemed to tell him that he and no other was the King's son who
+was destined to remove the spell, and he cried: "Show me the way to the
+castle, for I will take this adventure upon me."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+But the old man shook his head. "I have not yet told you all, my Prince.
+Many are the young men who have tried to force their way through the
+thick wood that guards the enchanted castle. Each of them thought that
+he, and he alone, was destined to awaken the Sleeping Beauty, and each
+of them set out with high hopes; but none of them all came back, and
+their bones, whitened by the wind and rain, lie among the thorns of the
+thick hedge, a fearful warning to the venturesome. I pray you,
+therefore, my Prince, do nothing rash, but think well before you take
+upon yourself this perilous quest."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"What," cried the Prince with flashing eyes, "shall I hold back when
+others have dared? This very hour I will attempt to enter the castle,
+and if I do not return, carry home the news of how I have died."
+
+Then without paying any heed to the words of those who would prevent him
+from rushing into such danger, the eager young man set out, his heart on
+fire with thoughts of love and glory. Nobody showed him the way, but he
+could see the towers of the castle rising above the distant wood, and
+when he entered the wood itself, and the towers were hidden, each path
+he took led him nearer to the place where he would be.
+
+At last he came to an open glade, and there before him was a tangled
+hedge of thorn, stretching in either direction as far as the eye could
+see.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER X
+
+
+AND now, as the Prince drew nearer, he could see that the story he had
+heard about that terrible place was true, for held in the tangle of
+briar were the bones of many unhappy young men who had tried to force
+their way through to the castle. Rags and tatters of their finery hung
+upon the great thorns that pointed menacingly like sharp claws. Here and
+there upon the ground beneath lay pieces of rusty armour, a helmet
+surrounded by a coronet of gold that once had belonged to a King's son,
+a shield with a Prince's device, a sword with jewel-encrusted hilt worth
+a King's ransom. There they lay, all disregarded among the blanched
+bones upon the grass, and the ground-ivy spread out its leaves to cover
+them.
+
+Not a sound broke the deep and awful silence. No bird sang, no insect
+droned; there was no scurry of woodland creatures among the leaves, no
+sigh of wind in the trees. In all that place only the thorn hedge seemed
+threateningly alive, waiting to destroy the intruder who should attempt
+to force the secret it guarded.
+
+Who would blame the Prince if for a moment his heart had almost failed
+him? There was no gap in that hedge, and the great thorns were sharp as
+dagger blades to stab his flesh. But if the Prince hesitated it was not
+for long. "Have I come so far to turn back now?" he thought. "These
+others who have died were brave men, and though they failed, with a
+courage as great as theirs I may succeed." And without wasting another
+moment the Prince began to force his way through the hedge.
+
+And now he noticed with surprise that those thorns which looked so sharp
+and cruel became soft as thistledown as soon as he touched them, and the
+trailing bramble branches did not entangle him but bent aside at his
+touch as though they had been stems of grass. The hedge opened before
+him, and as he went through it pink blossoms of wild roses bloomed on
+the branches, until the tangled wall became a mass of flowers.
+
+At last the Prince found himself on the other side of the hedge in the
+gardens of the castle. Before him he could see the high towers and
+turrets bathed in the fresh light of the morning sun, and as he hastened
+towards them he noticed that the gardens were as trim and tidy as though
+they had just been tended by the gardeners. There was no moss or weed
+upon the smooth paths, the turf on the lawns was as short and firm as
+though it had just been mown, and in the flower-beds everything was in
+the most careful order. Spring flowers were blooming there, but they
+bowed their heads upon their stalks, and even the trees seemed to hang
+their arms as though asleep.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Everywhere there was the same deep silence. The air, which should have
+been full of the twittering of birds, was heavy and languorous. There
+was no flutter of butterfly-wings or darting of flies; the fountains on
+the lawns were not playing, and as the Prince glanced over the edge of
+the marble basin of one of them he could see the goldfish beneath the
+water-lily leaves lying still, with never a wave of the tail or flicker
+of fin.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+So he went on over the lawns and terraces and never a waking thing did
+he see, but when he came to the courtyard he saw a soldier standing
+there, leaning on his pike with his head bent upon his chest. At first
+the Prince thought that he was dead, but his cheek was fresh and ruddy
+and it was quite plain to see that he was merely asleep. In the
+courtyard itself were other human forms, all still and silent. A row of
+pikemen leaned against the wall and in front of them, stretched out upon
+the ground, snored the sergeant who had been drilling them when the
+spell came upon the castle. A young squire, with a sleeping hawk upon
+his wrist, slept leaning against a sleeping horse which he had been
+about to mount. Near by lay a page with a hound in leash, both sleeping
+as soundly as though they never would awake, and through a window in the
+stables the Prince saw a groom lying with a straw in his mouth.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+In the stables themselves a like condition of things prevailed. The
+horses slept at their stalls with their noses to the mangers, standing
+on their four legs just as they were when they were enchanted a hundred
+years before, and on the back of one of them sat the stable-cat. Here
+and there upon the ground lay grooms and ostlers, fast asleep among the
+straw.
+
+From the stables the Prince made his way to the great kitchen where he
+saw equally strange sights, and he could not help smiling when he came
+upon the cook with her hand still outstretched to clout the head of the
+unhappy scullion whom she had by the ear. Before the fires hung the
+spitted partridges and fowls that were cooking for the Princess's
+birthday feast, and at the table a maid had fallen asleep with her hands
+in a large trough full of dough. She had been making the pastry for a
+pie when the sleep fell upon her, and by her side was another maid who
+had been plucking a black hen. At the sink a kitchen-knave was leaning
+over the pot he had been scouring.
+
+Then the Prince went out into the great hall and saw the courtiers
+asleep in the window alcoves, or stretched out upon the polished floor.
+Everywhere was a silence so profound that the Prince was almost alarmed
+to hear his own breathing, and the beating of his heart sounded like a
+muffled drum. On and on he went, through rooms and corridors, up
+staircases and down staircases, into the Queen's chamber where he saw
+the Queen and her ladies as still and silent as the rest; one of those
+ladies had been reading to the Queen at the moment when the charmed
+sleep fell upon the castle, and the book, a History of Troy, still lay
+open on her lap. Then the Prince went into the King's room where his
+Majesty sat with his ministers of state round the Council board. He
+almost lingered there, for it was very curious to see those nobles as
+quiet and motionless as though they had been waxworks in a show. Some of
+them were frowning as though in deep thought, and some smiling as though
+they had suddenly remembered something clever to say. The King himself,
+at the head of the Council table, had evidently fallen asleep in the
+very midst of a speech, for his arm lay outstretched on the table with
+pointing finger, and, by his side, his secretary's fingers still held
+the pen with which he was inscribing on a roll of parchment the royal
+words.
+
+So the Prince hurried through the castle from top to bottom until he had
+glanced into every room and opened every door. And still he knew that
+there was something more to see, for nowhere had he come across the
+sleeping Princess. Many maidens he had seen of surpassing beauty, but
+his heart told him that none of them all was the maiden whom he had come
+to awaken.
+
+Down he went into the courtyard again and found another stairway which
+led to the battlements. There stood the watchmen whose duty it was to
+look out over the country and report the arrival of travellers, but
+they, too, were all asleep, though one of them had his horn in his hand
+as though he had been about to blow it when he was suddenly overcome by
+the charmed slumber.
+
+From the battlements the Prince climbed, in turn, into each of the
+turrets, but there was nobody in them at all, and no living thing except
+the owls asleep in the crevices of the walls, and the bats that hung
+head downward from the rafters. Now only one small turret remained to be
+explored. It was the oldest of the turrets, almost a ruin, and plainly
+long unused, for the iron door was rusty and the ivy trailed about the
+walls.
+
+The Prince approached it with a beating heart, for there he knew he
+should find what he sought. He threw open the creaking door; with
+impatient feet he mounted the crazy, winding stair, opened the door at
+the top and entered a little dark room.
+
+And then--and then he started forward with a cry of joy and wonder, for
+lying on the couch below the narrow window he saw the Princess.
+
+She was lying upon a couch with her lovely hair spread out like a stream
+of gold; and, oh! no words can tell how beautiful she was. Softly the
+Prince came near and bent over her. He touched her hand; it was warm as
+in life, but she did not stir. No sound of breathing came from her
+parted lips, fresh and sweet as the petals of a rose; her eyes were
+closed.
+
+For a long time the Prince stood and gazed upon her, for never in all
+his life had he seen a maiden so lovely. Then suddenly he bent down and
+kissed her lips.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+That was the end of the enchantment. The Princess's eyelids quivered;
+languidly she moved her head and stretched out her arms. Her eyes opened
+and she smiled.
+
+"Is it you, my Prince?" she said. "How long you have kept me waiting!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XI
+
+
+IN that very moment the charm was broken and the castle awoke.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Instead of the profound silence there came a hustle and confusion of
+noise. Clocks began to strike, doors began to slam, dogs began to bark,
+cocks began to crow and hens to cluck; a breeze sprang up outside and
+set the branches of the trees swaying and creaking; the doves began to
+coo upon the roofs, the swallows to twitter under the eaves, flies came
+out and buzzed about the window, mice squeaked in the wainscot and ran
+scampering along the rafters. The fountain in the garden leapt up sixty
+feet into the air, and the goldfish swam among the water-lily leaves;
+ants left their nests and foraged about the paths, the butterflies
+danced and fluttered over the flowers, which lifted their heads as
+though to drink in the rays of the sun. In every tree in the garden a
+thrush woke up and began to sing; sparrows chirped, jays screamed,
+blue-tits chattered, and the chiff-chaff uttered his strange note. In
+the woods a cuckoo called and blackbird fluted to blackbird in the
+hedge. In the stables the horses awoke and champed at their stalls; the
+cat jumped down and ran after a mouse which crept out from under the
+straw. The sentry at the courtyard gate woke up and rubbed his eyes and
+came smartly to attention, looking round uneasily, for he thought he had
+only been asleep for a few minutes and was afraid that somebody might
+have seen him who would report him to the sergeant. The pikemen also
+woke with a start, and the sergeant woke too, and bellowed an order in a
+loud and angry voice, for he was ashamed of himself for sleeping in
+front of his men. The young squire who was going hawking fitted his
+falcon's hood and mounted his steed; the page-boy with the hound went
+off to his master. On the topmost tower of the castle the royal
+standard, which had been drooping against the flagstaff, filled out and
+waved freely in the breeze.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The hedge which had grown up to surround the enchanted castle broke in
+and disappeared; peacocks squalled and strutted on the lawns, martins
+flitted to and from their nests under the eaves, pigs began to grunt,
+oxen to low, sheep to bleat, rooks to caw and children to laugh and
+sing. In short, all the sounds which we hear every day and all the time
+and never notice, began again and seemed so loud in contrast to the
+deadly silence that they almost cracked the ears.
+
+And in every room in the castle the people who had been lying asleep for
+a hundred years woke up and went on with what they had been doing just
+as though nothing had happened. In the kitchen the flames of the fire
+leapt up with a hiss and a roar. The kettle began to boil, the stew-pot
+to bubble, and the meat before the fire to steam and hiss as the little
+boy turned the spit.
+
+"Take that," cried the cook, giving the scullion the clout she had
+promised a hundred years before. "Take that for a lazy knave."
+
+"Goodness," yawned the maid who had been plucking the black hen; "I
+wonder what made me drop off to sleep like that? Well, well, it's to be
+hoped the cook didn't see me!" And my word, how she made the feathers
+fly!
+
+[Illustration]
+
+_Miaou!_ cried the cat in disgust as he made a pounce at the mouse-hole
+he had been watching, for the little mouse who had poked his nose
+out a hundred years before drew it back like a flash and scampered away.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Dear me!" said the servant who was washing the dishes; "I do believe I
+have been to sleep with this crock in my hand. It's a mercy I didn't let
+it fall!" And he went on with his scouring. It was the same thing in the
+dairy where the maids had fallen asleep while they were skimming the
+cream and churning the butter. And the cream was not sour for all that a
+hundred years had passed, nor was the butter rank. But a fly which had
+been sleeping on the edge of one of the milk-pans woke up and flew down
+to taste the milk, and fell in and was drowned, so he was none the
+better because the spell had been taken off the castle.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+In the Queen's ante-chamber the maids-of-honour and the
+ladies-in-waiting sat up and yawned and stretched themselves. Each one
+of them thought that she was the only one who had fallen asleep, and
+they all began to explain at the same time that they had only closed
+their eyes for forty seconds. "It was the heat," they all said to each
+other. "The sun is very hot for this time of year."
+
+In the King's council chamber the King and all his ministers woke up
+with a start. The ministers rubbed their eyes and looked very sheepish,
+for each of them thought that he was alone in being caught napping.
+
+"Your Majesty was saying . . . ?" said the Prime Minister respectfully,
+leaning forward.
+
+"I was saying . . ." said the King. "What was I saying?" And he stretched
+out his arms and yawned. "I crave your pardon, my lords. I do believe
+I've been asleep. Heigho! but my joints are stiff."
+
+"It was but an after-dinner nap," said the Prime Minister. "Your Majesty
+is overspent with the hard hunting yesterday. Is it your Majesty's will
+that we should proceed with our business, or shall the Council rise
+until to-morrow?"
+
+"Go on, my lords, go on," cried the King heartily. "My little nap has
+wonderfully refreshed me. What say you, shall we pass that bill we were
+discussing a few minutes ago?"
+
+But at this moment a page came into the room with a message from the
+Queen, and as soon as he received it the King left his seat in the
+council chamber and went to her.
+
+Alone, among all the people in the castle, the Queen had realised
+immediately she awoke from her charmed sleep, exactly what had happened.
+She remembered the words of the fairy godmother, and she knew that what
+she had foretold had come to pass, and that the sleep from which she and
+everybody else in the castle had just awakened had lasted a hundred
+years.
+
+Her first thought was of her daughter, the Princess Briar-Rose. Where
+was she, and what had happened to her? If she, too, had merely fallen
+asleep, all was well, but suppose the doom first spoken by the
+thirteenth fairy had taken effect?
+
+In a few words she told the King all that was in her mind, and without
+delay messengers were sent all over the castle to look for the Princess.
+
+In the meantime Briar-Rose and the young Prince were talking together in
+the ruined tower. For the first time she heard the story of the
+enchantment, and her eyes grew round with wonder as she listened to her
+lover's account of the strange things that had happened in the castle.
+When he told of the great hedge and its cruel thorns, and of the many
+young men who died in trying to force their way through it, her eyes
+filled with tears.
+
+"How great their courage was," she sighed. "Oh, if only I could bring
+them back to life."
+
+But the Prince kissed her tears away, and hastened past that part of his
+tale, and presently she was smiling again and happy, because she
+understood that everything had happened as it was bound to happen.
+
+Then the Prince took her hand and raised her from the couch on which she
+had slept so long, and they went down the winding stair together and
+came to the battlements, where they found a score of breathless people
+who had been running up and down in search of her.
+
+And how surprised these people were to find her in that place,
+accompanied by a young man they had never seen before! She seemed to
+have grown more beautiful than ever during her long sleep, and they were
+amazed by her loveliness.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+And how may we describe the joy of the King and Queen when they saw
+their daughter again and knew that the good fairy had kept her word? The
+King was so delighted that all he could say was "Bless my soul! bless my
+soul!" And the Queen could say nothing at all, for she was weeping for
+joy.
+
+What a feast there was that night! In spite of the hundred years that
+had gone by it was still the Princess's birthday, and she was in reality
+no more than fifteen years old, for time had stood still for her. So she
+had her birthday feast just the same, and it was her betrothal feast
+too, for the King joined the hands of the young Prince and his daughter
+and gave them his blessing.
+
+
+THE END
+
+
+
+
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+Transcriber's Note:
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+Page 78, a closing quote was added after (can force his way through.)
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