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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Little Cinderella + +Author: Anonymous + +Release Date: March 1, 2007 [EBook #20723] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITTLE CINDERELLA *** + + + + +Produced by Jason Isbell, Roger Frank and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + +[Illustration: LITTLE CINDERELLA] + +BROWN, TAGGARD & CHASE, 25 & 29 CORNHILL, BOSTON. + +----------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + + +CINDERELLA. + + +In former times, a rich man and his wife were the parents of a beautiful +little daughter; but before she had arrived at womanhood, her dear +mother fell sick, and seeing that death was near, she called her little +child to her, and thus addressed her: "My child, always be good, and +bear everything that occurs to you with patience; then, whatever toil +and troubles you may suffer during life, happiness will be your lot in +the end." + +After uttering these words the poor lady died, and her daughter was +overwhelmed with grief at the loss of so good and kind a mother. + +The father, too, was very unhappy; but he sought to get rid of his +sorrow by marrying another wife; and he looked for some amiable lady who +might be a second mother to his child, and a companion to himself. +Unfortunately, his choice fell on a widow lady, of a proud and +overbearing temper, who had two daughters by a former marriage, both as +haughty and bad-tempered as herself. + +Before marriage this woman had the cunning to conceal her bad qualities +so well that she appeared to be very amiable; but the marriage was +scarcely over when her real character showed itself. She could not +endure her amiable step-daughter, with all her charming qualifications; +for they only made her own daughters appear more hateful. She gave her +the most degrading occupations, and compelled her to wash the dishes and +clean the stairs, and to sweep her own rooms and those of her +sisters-in-law. + +[Illustration] + +When the poor girl had finished her work, she used to sit in the +chimney-corner amongst the cinders, which made her sisters give +her the name of "Cinderella." However, in her shabby clothes Cinderella +was ten times handsomer than her sisters, let them be ever so +magnificently dressed. + +The poor girl slept in the garret, upon a wretched straw mattress, +whilst the bed-chambers of her sisters were furnished with every luxury +and elegance, and provided with mirrors, in which they could survey +themselves from head to foot. The amiable creature bore this ill +treatment with patience, and did not venture to complain to her father, +who was so completely governed by his wife that he would only have +scolded her. + +It happened that the king's son sent invitations to a ball, which was to +last two nights, and to which all the great people of the land were +invited, the two sisters among the rest. This delighted them extremely, +and their thoughts were entirely occupied in selecting their most +becoming dresses for the important occasion. Poor Cinderella had now +more work to do than ever, as it was her business to iron their linen, +and starch their ruffles. The sisters talked of nothing but preparations +for the ball. The eldest said, "I shall wear my crimson-velvet dress, +and point-lace;" and the younger, "I shall put on my usual +dress-petticoat, a mantle embroidered with gold flowers, and a tiara of +diamonds." They sent to engage the services of the most fashionable +hairdresser. They also called Cinderella to their aid; for she had very +good taste, and she offered, in the most amiable manner, to arrange +their heads herself; of which offer they were only too happy to avail +themselves. + +[Illustration] + +Whilst so occupied, the eldest said, "Cinderella, should you like to go +to the ball?" + +"Alas!" said she, "you are ridiculing me. I am not likely to go to the +ball." + +"You are right," replied the sister; "people would be amused to see a +Cinderella there." + +If Cinderella had been at all unamiable she might have dressed their +heads all awry, for such unkindness; but she returned good for evil, and +did it in the best possible style. + +The sisters were in such spirits they could scarcely eat for two days. +All their time was spent before the looking-glass, and more than a dozen +laces were broken in attempts to tighten their waists into elegant +shapes. + +At length the long-wished-for evening arrived, and these proud misses +stepped into their carriage, and drove away to the palace. + +Cinderella looked after the coach as far as she could see, and then +returned to the kitchen in tears, where, for the first time, she +bewailed her hard and cruel lot, little dreaming that a kind fairy was +at the same moment watching over her. + +[Illustration] + +She continued sobbing in the chimney-corner until a rap at the door +aroused her, and she got up to see what had caused it. She found a +little old woman, hobbling on crutches, who besought her to give her +some food. + +"I have only part of my own supper for you, Goody, which is no better +than a dry crust. But if you will step in and warm yourself by the fire, +you can do so, and welcome." + +"Thank you, my dear," said the old woman, in a feeble, croaking voice; +and when she had hobbled in, and taken her seat by the fire, she +continued, "Hey! dearee me! what are all these tears about, my child?" + +And then Cinderella told her of all her griefs,--how her sisters had +gone to the ball, and how she should like to have gone also. + +"But you shall go," exclaimed her visitor, who was suddenly transformed +into a beautiful fairy, "or I am not queen of the fairies, or your +godmother. Dry up your tears, my dear goddaughter, and do as I bid you, +and you shall have clothes and horses finer than any one." + +As Cinderella had often heard her father talk of her godmother, and tell +her that she was one of those kind fairies who protect good children, +her spirits revived, and she wiped away her tears. + +The fairy took Cinderella by the hand, and said, "Now, my dear, go into +the garden, and fetch me a pumpkin." + +Cinderella went immediately to gather the best she could find, and +carried it to her godmother, though she could not guess how this pumpkin +could make her go to the ball. Her godmother took the pumpkin and +hollowed it out, leaving only the rind; she then struck it with her +wand, and the pumpkin was immediately changed into a beautiful gilt +coach. She next sent Cinderella for the mouse-trap, wherein were found +six mice alive. She directed Cinderella to raise the door of the trap, +and as each mouse came out she struck it with her wand, and it was +immediately changed into a beautiful horse; so that she had now six +splendid grays for her gilt coach. + +[Illustration] + +The fairy was perplexed how to find a coachman, but Cinderella said, "I +will go and see if there is a rat in the rat-trap; if there is, he will +make a capital coachman." + +"You are right," said the godmother; "go and see." Cinderella brought +the rat-trap, in which there were three large rats. The fairy selected +one, on account of its beautiful whiskers, and, having touched it, it +was changed into a fat coachman, with the finest pair of whiskers that +ever were seen. She then said, "You must now go into the garden, where +you will find six lizards, behind the watering-pot; bring them to me." +These were no sooner brought than the godmother changed them into six +tall footmen, in handsome liveries, with cocked hats and gold-headed +canes, who jumped up behind the coach just as if they had been +accustomed to it all their lives. + +The coachman and postilion having likewise taken their places, the fairy +said to Cinderella, "Well, my dear girl, is not this as fine an equipage +as you could desire, to go to the ball with? Tell me, now, are you +pleased with it?" + +"O yes, dear godmother," replied Cinderella; and then, with a good deal +of hesitation, she added, "but how can I make my appearance among so +many finely-dressed people in these shabby clothes?" + +"Give yourself no uneasiness about that, my dear. The most difficult +part of our task is already accomplished, and it will be hard if I +cannot make your dress correspond with your coach and servants." + +On saying this, the fairy touched Cinderella with her magic wand, and +her clothes were instantly changed into a most magnificent ball-dress, +ornamented with the most costly jewels. + +The fairy now took from her pocket a beautiful pair of elastic glass +slippers, which she caused Cinderella to put on; and when she had thus +completed her work, and Cinderella stood before her, arrayed in her +beautiful clothes, the fairy was much pleased, and desired her to get +into the carriage with all expedition, as the ball had already +commenced. Two of the footmen then sprang and opened the carriage-door, +and assisted Cinderella into it. Her godmother, however, before she took +leave, strictly charged her on no account whatever to stay at the ball +after the clock had struck the hour of midnight; and then added that if +she stopped but a single moment beyond that time her fine coach would +again become a gourd, her horses mice, her footmen lizards, and her old +clothes resume their former appearance. + +[Illustration] + +Cinderella promised faithfully to attend to everything that the fairy +had mentioned; and then, quite overjoyed, gave the direction to the +footman, who bawled out, in a loud voice, to the coachman, "To the royal +palace!" + +The coachman touched his prancing horses lightly with his whip, and +swiftly the carriage started off, and in a short time reached the +palace. + +The arrival of so splendid an equipage as Cinderella's could not fail to +attract general notice at the palace gates, and as it drove up to the +marble portico the servants, in great numbers, came out to see it. + +[Illustration] + +The king's son, to whom it was announced that an unknown princess had +arrived, hastened to receive her. He handed her out of the carriage, +and led her to the ball-room. Immediately she entered the dancing +ceased, and the violins stopped playing; so much was every one struck +with the extreme beauty of the unknown princess; and the only sound +heard was that of admiration. The king, old as he was, could not take +his eyes off her, and said, in a low voice to the queen, that he had not +seen such a beautiful person for many years. All the ladies began +examining her dress, that they might have similar ones the next evening, +if it was possible to obtain equally rich stuffs, and work-people +skilled enough to make them. The king's son conducted her to the most +distinguished place, and invited her to dance. She danced with such +grace that everybody was in raptures with her; and when supper was +served the prince could partake of nothing, so much was he occupied in +contemplating the beauty of the fair stranger. + +Seated close to her sisters, Cinderella showed them marked attention, +and divided with them the oranges and citrons which the prince had given +her; all of which surprised them greatly, as they did not recognize her. + +When Cinderella saw that it wanted but a quarter of an hour of midnight +she left as quickly as possible, making a low courtesy to all the +company. + +On reaching home she found her godmother there, thanked her for the +delightful evening she had spent, and begged permission to go to the +ball the following night, as the prince had desired her company. The +fairy kindly granted her request, on condition that she would return +before twelve. She then caused her clothes to resume their usual +plainness, that her sisters might not know of her adventure. + +Whilst Cinderella was occupied in relating all that had passed at the +ball to her godmother, the two sisters knocked at the door, and as she +went to open it for them the fairy disappeared. + +[Illustration] + +"O, how late you are in coming home," said Cinderella, rubbing her eyes, +as if just awakened. + +"If you had been at the ball," said one of the sisters, "you would not +have been tired; for there was there the most beautiful princess that +ever was seen, who paid us much attention, and gave us oranges and +citrons." + +Cinderella could scarcely contain herself for joy. She asked the name of +the princess, but they said it was not known, and that the king's son +was therefore much distressed, and would give anything he had to know +who she could be. + +Cinderella smiled, and said, "Was she, then, so very beautiful? Could +not I see her? O, Javotte, do lend me your yellow dress, that you wear +every day, that I may go to the ball, and have a peep at this wonderful +princess!" + +"Indeed," said Javotte, "I am not so silly as to lend my dress to a +wretched Cinderella like you." + +Cinderella expected this refusal, and was very glad of it; for she would +have been greatly embarrassed if her sister had lent her the dress. + +The next evening the sisters again went to the ball, and Cinderella soon +made her appearance, more magnificently dressed than before. The king's +son was constantly at her side, saying the most agreeable things; so +that Cinderella did not notice how the time passed, and had quite forgot +her godmother's injunctions. While she therefore thought it was scarcely +eleven o'clock, she was startled by the first stroke of midnight. She +rose very hastily, and fled as lightly as a fawn, the prince following, +though he could not overtake her. In her flight she let one of her glass +slippers fall, which the prince picked up with the greatest care. + +Cinderella arrived at home out of breath, without carriage or servants, +in her shabby clothes, and had nothing remaining of all her former +magnificence except one of her little glass slippers,--the fellow of +that she had lost. + +[Illustration] + +Upon inquiry being made of the guards, at the palace gates, as to +whether the princess had gone out, they replied that they had seen no +one go out but a young girl, very poorly dressed, who looked more like a +peasant than a fine lady. + +When the two sisters returned from the ball Cinderella asked if they had +enjoyed themselves, and if the beautiful lady had again been there. They +told her that she had been there, but that when the clock struck twelve +she had started off so quickly that she let one of her pretty glass +slippers fall off; that the prince, who quickly followed her, had picked +it up, and had done nothing but look at it all the rest of the evening; +and that he was evidently very much in love with the beautiful creature +to whom it belonged, and would spare no pains to find her. + +This was indeed the case; for, a few days after, the prince caused it to +be published, with the sound of trumpets, that he would marry the lady +whose foot would exactly fit the slipper. + +[Illustration] + +So the slipper was first tried on by all the princesses, then by all the +duchesses, and next by all the ladies belonging to the court; but in +vain. It was then taken to the two sisters, who tried every possible way +of getting their foot into it, but without success. + +Cinderella, who was looking at them, and now recognized her slipper, +said, laughingly, "Let me see if it will fit me." + +The sisters immediately began to laugh, and to ridicule her; but the +gentleman who had been appointed to try on the slipper, having looked +attentively at Cinderella, and finding her very pretty, said she was +quite right in her request; for he was ordered to try it on to +everybody. + +He desired her to sit down, and at once found that the slipper would go +on her foot, without any trouble, and, indeed, fitted her like wax. + +The astonishment of the sisters was very great, but still greater when +Cinderella drew from her pocket the fellow-slipper, and, to the great +delight of the gentleman, placed it upon her other foot. + +Her godmother now made her appearance, and, having touched Cinderella +with her wand, she made her look even more magnificent than on either of +the former occasions. + +The sisters now recognized in Cinderella the beautiful person they had +seen at the ball, and threw themselves at her feet, to implore +forgiveness for all the ill-treatment they had shown her. Cinderella +raised them up, and, embracing them, said she forgave them, with all her +heart, their unkindness to her, and hoped that for the future they would +be more kind in their behavior to every one about them. She told them +she had never forgotten the last words of her mother, on her +death-bed:--"My child, always be good, and bear with patience everything +that occurs to you; then, whatever toils and troubles you may suffer +during life, happiness will be your lot in the end." + +These words now proved to be true; for, having borne unkindness and +cruelty with patience ever since her father's second marriage, she was +now going to be the wife of the king's son. + +Cinderella then explained the visit of her godmother, the queen of the +fairies; and how her magic wand had furnished her with dresses, +carriages, and attendants; and how, by forgetting the good fairy's +orders, she was obliged to quit the ball-room so suddenly; and how, in +her haste, she lost her little glass slipper, and, for her disobedience, +was deprived of all her fine clothes. + +Cinderella being now betrothed to the prince, she was taken to the +palace, dressed in all her splendor; and, being as amiable as she was +beautiful, invited her sisters to live in the palace with her, where +they were soon married to two great lords belonging to the court. + +[Illustration] + +The prince thought Cinderella more beautiful than ever, and in a few +days married her. 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