What a good thing, for instance, it was that one princess should sleep for a hundred years! Was she not saved from all the plague of young men who were not worthy of her?
And did she not come awake exactly at the right moment when the right prince kissed her?
For my part, I cannot help wishing a good many girls would sleep till just the same fate overtook them.

It would be happier for them, and more agreeable to their friends.
Of course all the known fairies were invited to the christening.

But the king and queen never thought of inviting an old witch.
For the power of the fairies they have by nature; whereas a witch gets her power by wickedness.

The other fairies, however, knowing the danger thus run, provided as well as they could against accidents from her quarter.

But they could neither render her powerless, nor could they arrange their gifts in reference to hers beforehand, for they could not tell what those might be.
Of course the old hag was there without being asked.