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The Sleeping Beauty

The Sleeping Beauty

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THE SLEEPING BEAUTY

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Contents

CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
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BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY
ARTHUR RACKHAM
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CINDERELLA. 7s. 6d. net.
THE ALLIES' FAIRY BOOK. 7s. 6d. net.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND. 7s. 6d. net.
ÆSOP'S FABLES. 7s. 6d. net.
MOTHER GOOSE. 7s. 6d. net.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL. 7s. 6d. net.
THE SPRINGTIDE OF LIFE Poems of Childhood,
        by A. C. Swinburne. 10s. 6d. net.
RIP VAN WINKLE. 10s. 6d. net.
UNDINE. 12s. 6d. net.
ARTHUR RACKHAM'S BOOK OF PICTURES. 21s. net.
THE RING OF THE NIBLUNGS. In Two Vols. Each 21s. net.
INGOLDSBY LEGENDS. 21s. net.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. 21s. net.


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Frontispiece: Cinderella about to touch the spindle Title Page





LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 1920.

Children running

BRIAR ROSE
ONCE UPON A TIME

THE

SLEEPING BEAUTY

CHAPTER I

ONCE upon a time there were a King and a Queen who were very unhappy because they had no children. Everything else that the heart could wish for was theirs. They were rich; they lived in a wonderful palace full of the costliest treasures; their kingdom was at peace, and their people were prosperous. Yet none of these things contented them, because they wanted a little child of their own to love and to care for, and though they had been married several years, no child had come to them.
The King and Queen
Bowing to the king and queen

Every day the King would look at the Queen and say: "Ah, if we only had a little child," and the Queen would look at the King and sigh, and they were both very miserable about it. Then they would put on their golden crowns and sit side by side on their thrones, while lords and ladies and ambassadors from other lands came to pay them homage, and they had to smile with their lips for the sake of politeness, but there was no joy in their hearts. And that is one of the greatest disadvantages of being a King or a Queen, that one has always to hide one's feelings.

Now it happened one day that the Queen went to her bath, and having dismissed her ladies, she descended the marble steps into the water and began idly to play with some wild rose-petals which had fallen into the

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