THE SLEEPING BEAUTY. II

   
  
 

   
 
 

  

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the rest, murmured out some threats
between her teeth.

One of the young fairies who sat by
her, overheard how she grumbled, and
judging that she might give the little
princess some unlucky gift, she went, as
soon as she rose from the table, and hid
herself behind the hangings, that she
might speak last, and repair, as much as
she possibly could, the evil which the old
fairy might intend.

In the meantime all the fairies began
to give their gifts to the princess in the
following manner :—