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4 of her daughter, and shoshe [sic] found, too late, the error had committed in honouring her so much. she determined to go and consult the Desert Fairy, lived at a considerable distance, and to ask her  concerning the Princess.

Now, as this powerful fairy was guarded by two lions, it was impossible to pass them without  their fury, and this could only be done by giving  a cake made of millet, sugar-candy, and crocodiles'  The Queen having provided herself with a cake  for the purpose, put it in a little basket, which  hung upon her arm, and set out for the abode of  fairy. After travollingtravelling [sic] for somosome [sic] time she felt weary, and lay down under a tree to rest herself,  she fell insensibly asleep.

On awakening, she heard the roaring of the which guarded thothe [sic] fairy, and she immediately



her basket, but alas! the cake was gone; and almost frightened to death, she sunk down at the foot of the tree. She was roused by hearing a voice crying, "Hem! hem!" and looking up, she saw a little yellow man, about half a yard in hoightheight [sic], sitting on the tree picking and eating oranges.

"Ah! Queen," said the Yellow Dwarf, who was called by this namoname [sic] on account of his comploxioncomplexion [sic], and the orange-tree hohe [sic] lived in, "how will you escape from thothe [sic] lions that are now approaching you, when you have no cake to pacify them? I know the business that brought