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but the rich dress she wore having convinced her of the reality of it, and the sight of All-Fair, sho was seized with such a fit of melancholy, as to bo unablo either to speak, eat, or sloop. The Princess, who loved her mother, was much grieved at her distress, and having in vain endeavoured to find out the causo of her dejoction, determined to go and consult the Desert Fairy about tho stato of tho Quoen. Accordingly, after proparing a cake to appeaso tho lions, which she put into a basket, tho Princess sot forward on her journey for tho abode of tho Fairy. As sho went exactly the samo road her mother had takon bofore, sho camo to the fatal orango-tree, which was loaded with fine fruit, and feeling a great dosire to gather some, sho set down her basket, and began to pluck and eat the oranges. In tho mean-
timo the lions fell a-roaring, and tho terror and grief of the Princess was inoxpressiblo, on looking down, to find that both her basket and cake wero gono. While sho was lamenting her deplorablo situation, tho Yollow Dwarf presented himself to her with these words: "Lovely Princess, dry up your tears, and hear what I am going to say: You need not proceod to tho Desort Fairy to know the reason of your mother's indisposition, sho is ungonorous enough to ropent of having promised you, her adorable daughtor, to mo in marriago."—"How!" interrupted tho Princess; "my mother promised mo to you in marriage! you! such a fright!"—"Nay, none of your scoffs," returned the Yollow Dwarf,
