By this time the whole court were running over the plain , some on foot and some on horseback , all hurrying to the help of their princess , who really was in some danger , for the wind was rising to the force of a gale . The king looked on for a little , and then returned with his attendants to the palace , reflecting all the while on the extreme lightness of his proposed bride and the absurdity of having a wife that rose in the air better than any kite . He thought on the whole that it would be wiser not to wait longer , but to depart at once , and he started on horseback at the very moment when the princess had been found by her followers , wet to the skin , and blown against a rick . Souci met the carriage which was bringing her home , and stopped to congratulate her on her escape , and to advise her to put on dry clothes . Then he continued his journey . It took a good while for the king to get home again , and he was rather cross at having had so much trouble for nothing . Besides which , his courtiers made fun at his adventure , and he did not like being laughed at , though of course they did not dare to do it before his face . And the end of it was that very soon he started on his travels again , only allowing one equerry to accompany him , and even this attendant he managed to lose the moment he had left his own kingdom behind him . Now it was the custom in those days for princes and princesses to be brought up by fairies , who loved them as their own children , and did not mind what inconvenience they put other people to for their sakes , for all the world as if they had been real mothers . The fairy Aveline , who lived in a country that touched at one point the kingdom of King Souci , had under her care the lovely Princess Minon-Minette , and had made up her mind to marry her to the young king , who , in spite of his awkward manners , which could be improved , was really very much nicer than most of the young men she was likely to meet . So Aveline made her preparations accordingly , and began by arranging that the equerry should lose himself in the forest , after which she took away the king 's sword and his horse while he lay asleep under a tree . Her reason for this was that she felt persuaded that , finding himself suddenly alone and robbed of everything , the king would hide his real birth , and would have to fall back on his powers of pleasing , like other men , which would be much better for him . When the king awoke and found that the tree to which he had tied his horse had its lowest branch broken , and that nothing living was in sight , he was much dismayed , and sought high and low for his lost treasure , but all in vain . After a time he began to get hungry , so he decided that he had better try to find his way out of the forest , and perhaps he might have a chance of getting something to eat . He had only gone a few steps when he met Aveline , who had taken the shape of an old woman with a heavy bundle of faggots on her back . She staggered along the path and almost fell at his feet , and Souci , afraid that she might have hurt herself , picked her up and set her on her feet again before passing on his way . But he was not to be let off so easy . ` What about my bundle ? ' cried the old woman . ` Where is your politeness ?
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