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indulged herself. The lions now began to roar, when All-Fair, looking for her cake, was thrown into the utmost trouble on finding it gone. As she was lamenting her deplorable situation, the Yellow Dwarf presented himself to her with these words:---"Lovely princess, dry up your tears, and hear what I am going to say: You need not proceed to the Desert Fairy to know the reason of your mother’s indisposition, she is ungenerous enough to repent of having promised you, her adorable daughter, to me in marriage."---"How!" interrupted the princess; "my mother promised me to you marriage! you! such a fright as you!" ---"Nay, none of your scoffs," returned the Yellow Dwarf, "I wish you not to stir up my anger: if you will promise to marry me, I will be the tenderest and most loving husband in the world---if not, save yourself from the lions if you can." In short, the princess was forced to give her word that she would have him, but with such agony of mind, that she fell into a swoom; and when she recovered, she found herself in her own bed, finely adorned with ribbons, and a ring of a single red hair so fastened round her finger that it could not be got off.
This adventure had the same effect upon All-Fair as the former had upon her mother. She grew melancholy, which was remarked
