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However, she was not dead, but had only fallen into a deep sleep;

and the king and the queen, who had just come home, and all their

court, fell asleep too; and the horses slept in the stables, and

the dogs in the court, the pigeons on the house-top, and the very

flies slept upon the walls. Even the fire on the hearth left off

blazing, and went to sleep; the jack stopped, and the spit that

was turning about with a goose upon it for the king's dinner

stood still; and the cook, who was at that moment pulling the

kitchen-boy by the hair to give him a box on the ear for

something he had done amiss, let him go, and both fell asleep;

the butler, who was slyly tasting the ale, fell asleep with the

jug at his lips: and thus everything stood still, and slept

soundly.