[Illustration: "She was in the garden, lying on the marble edge of a fountain, feeding the gold fish who swam in the water."--FRONTISPIECE.] Once there lived a King, whose wife was dead, but who had a most beautiful daughter--so beautiful that every one thought she must be good as well, instead of which the Princess was really very wicked, and practised witchcraft and black magic, which she had learned from an old witch who lived in a hut on the side of a lonely mountain. This old witch was wicked and hideous, and no one but the King's daughter knew that she lived there; but at night, when every one else was asleep, the Princess, whose name was Fiorimonde, used to visit her by stealth to le…
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