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Title: The Sleeping Beauty

Author: C. S. Evans

Illustrator: Arthur Rackham

Release Date: May 12, 2008 [EBook #25451]

Language: English

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THE SLEEPING BEAUTY

_BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY_

ARTHUR RACKHAM

CINDERELLA. 7s. 6d. net.

THE ALLIES' FAIRY BOOK. 7s. 6d. net.

ALICE IN WONDERLAND. 7s. 6d. net.

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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. 21s. net.

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THE.SLEEPING
BEAUTY

TOLD.BY.C.S.EVANS
AND.ILLUSTRATED.BY
ARTHUR.RACKHAM

LONDON.WILLIAM.HEINEMANN
PHILADELPHIA.J.B.LIPPINCOTT.Co

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 1920.

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[Illustration: BRIAR ROSE]

[Illustration: 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.

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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