_L'Heureuse Peine_ is also, I believe, new to the English reader. It is
an exceedingly graceful story, and the _dénouement_ is novel as well
as ingenious. The "little animal" into which the unfortunate Naimée is
transformed, is not specified by the author, but from an allusion to
its _manière de marcher_, I suppose it to be a crayfish, a favourite
with the writers of fairy tales.