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      There once live a king and queen.They have no 

children and they are very sad. Then one day 

,she learns that she is going to have a baby.

She and the king look forward with great 

excitement to the day of the baby's birth.

   When the time comes, a lovely daughter is 

born and they arrange a large party for her 

Christening.They invite lots of guests,and twelve 

fairies, for they would make wishes for their 

little daughter.

   At the Christening party, the guests and the 

fairies all agree that the princess is a beautiful 

baby.

 One fairy wishes on her the gift of Happiness, 

another Beauty, others Health, Contentment, 

Wisdom, Goodness . . . Eleven fairies make their 

wishes when suddenly the doors of the castle open 

and a thirteenth fairy sweep. She is furious that 

she is not invited to the Christening party.They 

feel she is evil. She waves her wand over the 

baby's cradle and cast a spell, not a wish.

       "On her sixteenth birthday," she whispers, 

"the princess will prick herself with a spindle.

And she will die." and a terrible hush fall over the 

crowd.

   The twelfth fairy has still to make her wish. 

She is going to wish the gift of joy on the baby 

but now she wants to stop the princess dying on 

her sixteenth birthday. 

Her magic is not strong enough to break the 

wicked spell.But she tries to weaken the evil. 

She wishes that the princess would fall asleep 

for a hundred years instead of dying.

Over the years the princess grows into the 

happiest, kindest and most beautiful child.All 

the wishes of the first eleven fairies come true. 

The king and queen decide that they could 

prevent the wicked fairy's spell.They are sure 

that the princess never sees a spindle.

    So they ban all spinning in the land. All the 

flax and wool in their country send elsewhere. 

On their daughter's sixteenth birthday they 

hold a party for the princess in their castle. 

This can protect her from the danger.She can 

not find a spindle on her sixteenth birthday.

      People come from far and wide to the 

grand birthday ball for the princess.All 

guests eat,drink and dance in the great 

hall.And the princess wants to play hide-

and-seek.It is a favorite game from her 

childhood.

      The princess rans to a far corner of the 

castle.And She climbs a spiral staircase in a 

turret. "They will never find me here" she thinks 

and she creeps into a little room at the top. 

      She finds an old woman dressed in black, 

sitting on a chair spinning.."What are you 

doing?" asks the princess when she sees the 

spinning.Because she has never saw it in her 

whole life.

"Come and see, pretty girl," replys the old 

lady. The princess watches her.She pulls 

the strands of wool from the sheep's fleece 

on the floor.And she twirls it with her 

fingers on to the spindle deftly.

"Would you like to try?" she asks cunningly.

    The princess sits down and takes the 

spindle. In a flash she pricks her thumb 

and she cries out.She falls to the ground 

as though dead. The wicked fairy's spell 

works.

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