_thomas Bodkin_, part 2 · page 21 2101The Fairy came away immediately, and she arrived, about an hour after, in a fiery chariot, drawn by dragons.102The King handed her out of the chariot, and she approved every thing he had done; but, as she had a very great foresight, she thought, when the Princess should awake, she might not know what to do with herself, being all alone in this old palace; and this was what she did: She touched with her wand every thing in the palace (except the King and the Queen), governesses, maids of honour, ladies of the bedchamber, gentlemen, officers, stewards, cooks, under-cooks, scullions, guards, with their beef-eaters, pages, footmen; she likewise touched all the horses which were in the stables, as well as their grooms, the great dogs in the outward court, and pretty little Mopsey too, the Princess's little spaniel-bitch, which lay by her on the bed.103Immediately upon her touching them, they all fell asleep, that they might not awake before their mistress, and that they might be ready to wait upon her when she wanted them.104The very spits at the fire, as full as they could hold of partridges and pheasants, did fall asleep, and the fire likewise.105All this was done in a moment.106Fairies are not long in doing their business.1 2← previous_thomas Bodkin_, part 1next →_thomas Bodkin_, part 3↑ back to The Fairy Tales of Charles PerraultThis page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/8/page/2/