Then the Queen sent for the Fairy again and scolded her furiously . ` Do n't make such a mistake again ; find me something that it will be quite impossible for her to do , ' she said . So the next day the Fairy appeared with a huge barrel full of the feathers of all sorts of birds . There were nightingales , canaries , goldfinches , linnets , tomtits , parrots , owls , sparrows , doves , ostriches , bustards , peacocks , larks , partridges , and everything else that you can think of . These feathers were all mixed up in such confusion that the birds themselves could not have chosen out their own . ` Here , ' said the Fairy , ` is a little task which it will take all your prisoner 's skill and patience to accomplish . Tell her to pick out and lay in a separate heap the feathers of each bird . She would need to be a fairy to do it . ' The Queen was more than delighted at the thought of the despair this task would cause the Princess . She sent for her , and with the same threats as before locked her up with the three keys , ordering that all the feathers should be sorted by sunset . Graciosa set to work at once , but before she had taken out a dozen feathers she found that it was perfectly impossible to know one from another . ` Ah ! well , ' she sighed , ` the Queen wishes to kill me , and if I must die I must . I can not ask Percinet to help me again , for if he really loved me he would not wait till I called him , he would come without that . ' ' I am here , my Graciosa , ' cried Percinet , springing out of the barrel where he had been hiding . ` How can you still doubt that I love you with all my heart ? ' Then he gave three strokes of his wand upon the barrel , and all the feathers flew out in a cloud and settled down in neat little separate heaps all round the room . ` What should I do without you , Percinet ? ' said Graciosa gratefully . But still she could not quite make up her mind to go with him and leave her father 's kingdom for ever ; so she begged him to give her more time to think of it , and he had to go away disappointed once more .
When the wicked Queen came at sunset she was amazed and infuriated XXXXX find the task done .
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