It was then, especially, that he had the air of a fox.
"Nor is this all.

I read the other day the story of a princess who was travelling over the world, and asked hospitality, one evening, at the door of a palace.

Was she a real princess or an adventuress?
The queen who received her judged it well to ascertain.

For this purpose she prepared for her, with her own hands, a soft bed, composed of two mattresses, on which she piled five feather-beds; between the two mattresses she slipped three peas.

The next day the traveller was asked how she had slept.