The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm . But round the castle a hedge of briar roses began to grow up. Rose had been asleep for the last hundred years, and withher slept the King, Queen, and all her courtiers. He knewalso, from his grandfather, that many princes had alreadycome and sought to pierce through the briar hedge, and hadremained caught in it and died a sad death. Then the young Prince said, I am not afraid ; I am deter-mined to go and look upon the lovely Briar BRIAR ROSE The good old man did all in his power to dissuade him, butthe Prince would not listen to his words. Now,
The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm . But round the castle a hedge of briar roses began to grow up. Rose had been asleep for the last hundred years, and withher slept the King, Queen, and all her courtiers. He knewalso, from his grandfather, that many princes had alreadycome and sought to pierce through the briar hedge, and hadremained caught in it and died a sad death. Then the young Prince said, I am not afraid ; I am deter-mined to go and look upon the lovely Briar BRIAR ROSE The good old man did all in his power to dissuade him, butthe Prince would not listen to his words. Now, however, the hundred years were just ended, and theday had come when Briar Rose was to wake up again. Whenthe Prince approached the briar hedge it was in blossom, andwas covered with beautiful large flowers which made way forhim of their own accord and let him pass unharmed, and thenclosed up again into a hedge behind him. In the courtyard he saw the horses and brindled houndslying asleep, on the roof sat the doves with their heads undertheir wings : and when he went into the house the flies wereasleep on the walls, and near the throne lay the King andQueen ; in the kitchen was the cook, with his hand raisedas though about to strike the scullion, and the maid sat withthe black fowl in her lap which she was about to pluck. He went on further, and all was so still that he could hearhis own breathing. At last he reached the tower, and openedthe door into the little room whe
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