4 THE SLEEPING BEAUTY.

 

or spindle ; nay, even so much as to have
a spindle in any of their houses.

About fifteen or sixteen years after,
the king and queen being gone to one of
their houses of pleasure, the young prin-
cess happened one day to divert herself
by wandering up and down the palace,
when, going up from one apartment to
another, she at length came into a little
room at the top of the tower, where
an old woman, all alone, was spinning
with her spindle.

Now either she had not heard of the
king’s command issued forth against