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6 but the rich dress she wore having convinced her of the reality of it, and the sight of All-Fair, shoshe [sic] was seized with such a fit of melancholy, as to bobe [sic] unablounable [sic] either to speak, eat, or sloopsleep [sic]. The Princess, who loved her mother, was much grieved at her distress, and having in vain endeavoured to find out the causocause [sic] of her dejoctiondejection [sic], determined to go and consult the Desert Fairy about thothe [sic] statostate [sic] of thothe [sic] QuoenQueen [sic]. Accordingly, after proparingpreparing [sic] a cake to appeasoappease [sic] thothe [sic] lions, which she put into a basket, thothe [sic] Princess sotset [sic] forward on her journey for thothe [sic] abode of thothe [sic] Fairy. As shoshe [sic] went exactly the samosame [sic] road her mother had takontaken [sic] boforebefore [sic], shoshe [sic] camocame [sic] to the fatal orango-treeorange-tree [sic], which was loaded with fine fruit, and feeling a great dosiredesire [sic] to gather some, shoshe [sic] set down her basket, and began to pluck and eat the oranges. In thothe [sic] mean-



timotime [sic] the lions fell a-roaring, and thothe [sic] terror and grief of the Princess was inoxpressibloinexpressible [sic], on looking down, to find that both her basket and cake werowere [sic] gonogone [sic]. While shoshe [sic] was lamenting her deplorablodeplorable [sic] situation, thothe [sic] YollowYellow [sic] Dwarf presented himself to her with these words: "Lovely Princess, dry up your tears, and hear what I am going to say: You need not proceodproceed [sic] to thothe [sic] DesortDesert [sic] Fairy to know the reason of your mother's indisposition, shoshe [sic] is ungonorousungenorous [sic] enough to ropentrepent [sic] of having promised you, her adorable daughtordaughter [sic], to mome [sic] in marriagomarriage [sic]."—"How!" interrupted thothe [sic] Princess; "my mother promised mome [sic] to you in marriage! you! such a fright!"—"Nay, none of your scoffs," returned the YollowYellow [sic] Dwarf,