Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-06-03
The Sleeping Beauty.
j. w. GooDELI
Polk County, o. II.
A FAIRY LEGEND.

wHsreeP'aaa Sas5s sia ago mere , seu' s'; sO
tul daughter, called Thorn-rose. She ~. ~.
only child, and at her birth there was great re.
Jolclng and magnificent feast was appointed
to celebrate it, to which the king invited his rel
ativUs, and courtiers and all the great men Of his
realm. Now there were in this kings domin-
ions thirteen wise women or fares. whom he de-
sired to invite to the feast, in order that they
might bestow favors upon the infant princes.
But here difficulty arose which much perplexed
him. There were as I have said, thirteen Of
these fairies but as he had only twelve gold
frenchers for them to eat off, he could not invite
all, so one of them was left out.
The feast night at length arrived, and with it
came the FAIRIES who had been invited and when
the banquet was over, they began to bestow
their wonderful gifts upon the child-princess.
One gave her beauty, another riches, another
chastity, and SO on with all that men love and
value on earth. But just as the eleventh fairy
had finished bestowing her gift, the thirteenth,
who had not been invited, came in. She was
very angry, and began to threaten vengeance
for the affront which had been given by not in
yiting her to the feast 1.-THE maiden" said she,
" when she comes to her fifteenth year, shall
pierce her hand with a spindle, and shall fall
dead upon the ground"
The king, and queen, and the whole assembly
we're filled with the deepest grief when they
heard this, and begged the Twelfth fairy, who had
not yet bestowed her gift, to prevent if possible
the terrible calamity her sister had threatened.
But the Twelfth fairy said that she could only nit
lgate what had been determined by the other
g The beautiful princess Thorn rose," she con-
tinued, d" shall not die but she shall pierce her
hand with spindle, and shall fall asleep, and all
that are in the palace with her, and shall sleep
a hundred years, when kings son shall awaken
her with KISS.
And the maiden grew up so beautiful intelli'
gent, modest and affectionate, that everybody
loved her. AS her fifteenth year approached, the
king ordered every spindle to be sent out OF the
kingdom, in order that what had been ioretolt
might not take place. But it happened one day
that she was left quite alone in the great oil
} palace of her father. To amuse herself and II
S pass away the lime, she rambled through all tn
Y rooms and passes, wandering wherever her fan
s CIV led her. At last she came 10 little door il
Y half ruined tower at one end of the building
n The door was locked but there was rusty ke
i in the lock, which she turned, and the door fe'
s open Here she found an old woman engage
in spinning. The young princess, who had nev
y er seen anything of the kind before, was YER
e much amused and desired to try if she coul
r spin, too. Ina moment she pierced her han
i with the spindle, and the words Of the fairy wer
d fulfilled. She fell down in a deep sleep an
e when she had been carried to her chamber, an
d laid upon her splendid velvet couch, the king an
# queen, and all that were the palace, fell asee
- also. The guards slept at their posts. the groom
a slept in the courtyard, the dogs in their kennels
n the pigeons slept on the roof, the flies slept
/. the wall, and even the fire, which bla2ed on th
e broad hearth in the hall, became still, and every
;" thing else
10 Now hedge Of thorns began to grow a
IN around the castelated palace and year by yo
ly higher and higher and thicker and thicker, t
n at last it enclosed and hid the whole buildin