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23 ground bleeding profusely. All their subjects, who hated them mortally, and who only served and submitted to them through fear, now dreading them no longer, tied cords to their feet, and dragged them into river, saying they were happy thus to get rid of their tyrants.

Thus ended the days of the wicked king and his son. The good fairy, who had seen all that passed, went immediately to seek the queen, and they went together to the black, where the princess Juliet was confined under more than forty locks. The fairy struck three times with a little ring on the great door, which opened instantly, as did all the rest; they found the poor princess very thoughtful, and with scarcely spirits to a word. The queen ran to embrace ; "My dear child, I am thy mother, queen of the Land of Pleasure!" exclaimed she, and then gave her an account of her birth. When Juliet heard these happy, she was as near dying with joy as she had been near dying with grief: she herself at the feet of the queen, embraced her knees, and wet her hands with  tears she shed upon them. She likewise carressed the good fairy, who had conferred many obligations on them both. The fairy said to them, "It is not time now to of amusing ourselves; let us go to