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terrified to find herself alone in so old and gloomy a palace. After thinking a few minutes what could possibly ⟨be⟩
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done to remedy this inconvenience, she soon hit upon ⟨an⟩ expedient; she touched all the persons in the ⟨palace⟩ except the king and queen, with her wand; maids ⟨of⟩ honour, governesses, waiting-women, gentlemen ushers, grooms of the bed-chamber, lords in waiting, ⟨stewards,⟩ cooks, scullions, guards, pages, and footmen, were ⟨all⟩ thrown into a sleep as sound as that of the princess.
She touched also with her wand all the horses in ⟨the⟩ stables, all the grooms, all the dogs in the ⟨stable-yard⟩ and oven little Bichon, the princess’s favourite ⟨lap-dog⟩ who lay on the bed by her side: all fell fast asleep, ⟨till⟩ the timo should arrive for the princess to awako, ⟨when⟩ they would be ready at a moment’s warning to ⟨wait⟩ upon her. Evon the very spits, and the partridges ⟨and⟩ pheasants that were roasting on them, together ⟨with⟩ the fire, were all laid asleep; and all this was ⟨concluded⟩ in a moment—for fairies are never long in ⟨performing⟩ their feats.
The king and queen, after embracing their ⟨daughter⟩
tenderly, without awaking her, left the palace; ⟨and⟩
mado a proclamation, that no one, on pain of ⟨death⟩
should dare approach her. Tho king might, ⟨however⟩
have saved himself this trouble: for in a quarter of ⟨an⟩
hour there sprang up round tho palace a vast ⟨number⟩
of trees of all sorts and sizes, bushes and brambles, ⟨and⟩
twining one in the other, that neither man nor ⟨beast⟩
