They all went to sleep just where they were when the wand touched them. Some of the gentlemen were bowing to the ladies, the ladies were embroidering, the grooms stood currying their horses, and the cook was slapping the kitchen boy.
The king and queen departed from the castle, giving orders that no one was to go near it. This command, however, was not needed.
In a little while there sprang around the castle a wood so thick that neither man nor beast could pass through.
A great many changes take place in a four hundred years. The king had no other child, and when he died, his throne passed to another royal family. Even the story of the sleeping prince was almost forgotten.
One day there was a girl that lost and she saw towers rising above a thick wood.
A beautiful palace rose before him. In the courtyard the girl saw horses and men who looked as if they were dead. But he was not afraid and boldly entered the palace. There were guards motionless as stone, gentlemen and ladies, pages and footmen, some standing, some sitting, but all like statues.
She went to the tower that rising above a thick wood then at last She saw the prince.
"wait who is that ?" she ask
then she remember the story of her father
"oh ! yes my father told me that there is a castle in the woods where a prince sleeps—the most handsome prince that ever lived. It was said that he must sleep there a four hundred years, when he would be awakened by a girl that truely love him.”
The girl knelt beside him and awakened him with a kiss. And now the enchantment was broken.
The prince looked at her with wondering eyes and said:
“Is it you, my princess? I have waited you for so long.”
So happy were the two that they talked hour after hour. In the meantime all in the palace awaked and each began to do what he was doing when he fell asleep.
The brave girl went on bowing to the man. The men went on with their embroidery. The grooms went on currying their horses, the cook went on slapping the kitchen boy, and the servants began to serve the supper. Then the chief lady in waiting, who was ready to die of hunger, told the prince a loud that supper was ready.
The prince gave the princess his hand, and they all went into the great hall for supper. That very evening the prince and princess were married. The next day the prince took his bride to his father’s palace and there they lived happily ever afterward.
(The End)
