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and excellent workmanship, set with divers precious stones; but as they were all sitting down at the table, they saw come into the hall, a very old Fairy, whom they had not invited because it was near fifty years since she had been ont of a certain tower, and was thought to have been either dead or enchanted.
The King ordered her a cover, but could not furnish her with a case of gold as the others had, because he had only seven made for the seven Fairies. Tho old Fairy fancied she was slighted, by not being tteated in the same sumptuous manner with the rest and murmered out some threats between her teeth.
One of the young Fairies who sat by her overheard how she grumbled and judging that she might give the little Princess some unlucky gift, she went, as soon as she rose from the table, and hid herself behind the hanging that she might speak last, and repair, as much as possible she could, the evil which the old Fairy might intend
In the mean while, all the Fairies began to give their gifts to the Princess in the following manner:
The youngest gave her a gift, that
