THE SLEEPING BEAUTY. 19

 

Immediately on her touching them
they all fell asleep, that they might
not wake before their mistress, and that
they might be ready to wait upon her
when she wanted them. The very spits
at the fire, as full as they could be of
partridges and pheasants, and everything
in the place, whether alive or not,
fell asleep also.

All this was done in a moment, for
fairies are not long in doing their busi-
ness.

And now the king and queen, having
kissed their child without waking her,
went very sorrowfully forth from the