The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language (1910)
Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 109
e fourth that sheshould dance admirably well; the fifth, that she 86 THE BOOK OF POPULAR TALES. should sing like a nightingale; the sixth, that sheshould play charmingly upon every musical instru-ment. The tarn of the old fairy had now come,and she declared, while her head shook with mal-ice, that… … Be of good cheer, king and queen; your daugh-ter shall not so die. It is true I cannot entirelyundo what my elder has done. The princess willpierce her hand with a spindle, but, instead ofdying, she will only fall into a deep sleep. Thesleep will last a hundred years, and at the end ofthat time a…
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