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THE SLEEPING BEAUTY.

KING and Queen had a dear little baby girl born to

them, and all the fairies but one were invited to the
christening. Each of these fairies presented the child with
agift; one gave wealth, another virtue, another beauty,
and so on.

Then the cross old fairy, who had been left out, hob-
bled into the room, and stretching out a bony finger,
said: ‘On her fifteenth birthday she shall prick her finger
with a spindle and die of the wound.”

Then there was great sorrow at the court; but another
fairy spoke up and said: ‘She shall not die but shall fall
into a deep sleep for a hundred years.”

The day the child was fifteen years old she chanced
to be left alone in the castle. Roaming about she came
to a room in the tower, the door of which was locked.

She turned the key, and saw there an old woman spinning

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