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and, truly, there was a great deal of very interesting information. As thus:—
Princess: How to transform Goosegirl into.
Spell for causing Princess to be surrounded with high walls of bronze, which may by no means be broken down except by the notes of a certain trumpet (q.v.).
(Now q.v. are the first letters of two magic words which are to be found in all dictionaries and encyclopedias to this day).
Princess: Enchanted ring for.
A new and improved method by which she may be changed into a fawn together with any members of her family according to desire, and all of them transformed back again into their proper shape.
Princess: An excellent device for causing a Princess to grow tall or short by eating of a mushroom, with directions how to find the place where the mushroom grows, and precautions to be taken lest by over-much nibbling she disappear altogether.
And so on. But there was never a word about how to prevent a Princess from falling into a charmed sleep through pricking her finger with the spindle of a spinning-wheel.
So when he had read all through the five hundred pages, the venerable wizard turned to the word Sveep, in the hope that he would meet with better fortune.
And there was much reliable information under this heading also. There were recipes for potent drugs which would cause sleep, and for still more potent drugs which would prevent people from going to sleep, and when the wizard came to this last he cried out eagerly, for he thought