` Give me something to drink , I am dying of thirst , ' said the golden bird . ` Wait a minute , ' replied Desire , so much astonished that he forgot his own sufferings ; and to satisfy the bird he took a second orange , and opened it without thinking what he was doing . Out of it flew another canary , and she too began to cry : ' I am dying of thirst ; give me something to drink . ' Then Tubby 's son saw his folly , and while the two canaries flew away he sank on the ground , where , exhausted by his last effort , he lay unconscious . VII When he came to himself , he had a pleasant feeling of freshness all about him . It was night , the sky was sparkling with stars , and the earth was covered with a heavy dew . The traveller having recovered , mounted his horse , and at the first streak of dawn he saw a stream dancing in front of him , and stooped down and drank his fill . He hardly had courage to open his last orange . Then he remembered that the night before he had disobeyed the orders of the old man . Perhaps his terrible thirst was a trick of the cunning witch , and suppose , even though he opened the orange on the banks of the stream , that he did not find in it the princess that he sought ? He took his knife and cut it open . Alas ! out of it flew a little canary , just like the others , who cried : ' I am thirsty ; give me something to drink . ' Great was the disappointment of Desire . However , he was determined not to let this bird fly away ; so he took up some water in the palm of his hand and held it to its beak . Scarcely had the canary drunk when she became a beautiful girl , tall and straight as a poplar tree , with black eyes and a golden skin . Desire had never seen anyone half so lovely , and he stood gazing at her in delight . On her side she seemed quite bewildered , but she looked about her with happy eyes , and was not at all afraid of her deliverer . He asked her name . She answered that she was called the Princess Zizi ; she was about sixteen years old , and for ten years of that time the witch had kept her shut up in an orange , in the shape of a canary .
` Well , then , my charming XXXXX , ' said the young Prince , who was longing to marry her , ` let us ride away quickly so as to escape from the wicked witch . '
Tubby Zizi beak before canaries deliverer first old second years