The Yellow DwarfOnce upon a time there lived a queen who had been the mother of
a great many children, and of them all only one daughter was
left. But then she was worth at least a
thousand.
Her mother, who, since the death of the King, her father, had
nothing in the world she cared for so much as this little Princess,
was so terribly afraid of losing her that she quite spoiled her,
and never tried to correct any of her faults. The consequence
was that this little person, who was as pretty as possible, and was
one day to wear a crown, grew up so proud and so much in love with
her own beauty that she despised everyone else in the world.
The Queen, her mother, by her caresses and flatteries, helped to
make her believe that there was nothing too good for her. She
was dressed a
