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 did not know how she was. Ha! said the Princess, this is very pretty; how do you do it? Give it me, that I may see if I can do so. The old woman to, satisfy the child’s curiosity, granted her request. She had no sooner taken it into her hand, than whither being very hasty at it, something unhandy, or that the decree of the spiteful Fairy had ordained, is not to be certainly ascertained; but, whoever, it emmediately ran into her hand, and she directly fell down upon the ground in a swoon.

The good old woman, not knowing what to do in this affair; cried out for help. People came in from every quarter in great numbers; some threw water upon the princess's face, unlaced her, struck her on the palm of the hands and rubbed her temples with Hungary water; but all they could do, did not bring her to herself.

The good Fairy, who had saved her life by condemning her to sleep one hundred years, was in the kingdom of Matakin, twelve thousand leagues off, when this accident befel the Princess, but she was instantly informed of it by a little Dwarf, who had boots of