The Green Fairy Book

r, but no sooner had he sat down to eat it

himself, and, after telling them to be sure to wak

me to wake him, and at half-past, and a quarter of an hour later,

ang out of bed, and, scarcely waiting to dress himself,

ach of gold. She left you this bouquet, and a message to say t

t tried to console himself by looking a

,' thought he, forgetting that i

ing he could lie still no longer, and climbed out of his window into the branches of one of the great lime-tre

n, nor the songs of the birds, nor the noise of Ludovine's golden coach, no

s heart sank as he came down out of his tr

incess come

ed scarf for you; said she would pass by to-morrow

eft arm, thinking all the while that the best way to keep awake was not to go to bed at all. So he paid his bill, and bought a horse with th

round his arm; and gradually he smelt it so often that at last his hea

screamed at him, but it was all no good. Neither man nor hors

stop!' But the coach drove on as before, and though the little soldi

wonder of wonders! it went straight on, and rolled over the water as easily as it had done over the land. John's horse, which had carried him