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 when she wanted them; The very spits at the fire, as full as they could hold of partridges and pheasants; and every thing in the palace, whether animate or inanimate, did fall asleep also

All this was done in a moment: for Fairies are not long in doiug their business.

And now the King and Queen having kissed their dear child without waking her, went out of the palace, and put forth a proclamation, that nobody should come near it. This, however, was unecessary, for in less than a quarter of an hour their grew up all around the park, such a vast number of trees, great and small bushes, and brambles twining one with another, that neither man nor beast could pass thro' so that nothing could be seen but the very tops of the towers of the palace and not that too unless it was a good way off Nobody doubted but the Fairy gave therein a very extraordinary sample of her art that the princess, while she continued sleeping, might have nothing to fear from any curious people

When an hundred years were gone and past, the son of a King then