{"collection":"myth-cosmogony","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_23303/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_23303","id":"gutenberg_23303","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23303","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Children & Young Adult Reading","Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore","Fairy tales"],"text":"Produced by David Edwards, Anne Storer and the Online\nDistributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This\nfile was produced from images generously made available\nby The Internet Archive)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n                            CINDERELLA\n\n\n                     GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS,\n                        LONDON AND NEW YORK.\n\n                      Kronheim & Co., London.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n                            CINDERELLA:\n\n                                OR,\n\n                     THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER.\n\n\nThere was, many years ago, a gentleman who had a charming lady for his\nwife. They had one daughter only, who was very dutiful to her parents.\nBut while she was still very young, her mamma died, to the grief of her\nhusband and daughter. After a time, the little girl's papa married another\nlady. Now this lady was proud and haughty, and had two grown-up daughters\nas disagreeable as herself; so the poor girl found everything at home\nchanged for the worse.\n\nBut she bore all her troubles with patience, not even complaining to her\nfather, and, in spite of her hard toil, she grew more lovely in face and\nfigure every year.\n\nNow the King's son gave a grand ball, and all persons of quality were\ninvited to it. Our two young ladies were not overlooked. Nothing was now\ntalked of but the rich dresses they were to wear.\n\nAt last the happy day arrived. The two proud sisters set off in high\nspirits. Cinderella followed them with her eyes until the coach was out\nof sight. She then began to cry bitterly. While she was sobbing, her\ngodmother, who was a Fairy, appeared before her.\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\"Cinderella,\" said the Fairy, \"I am your godmother, and for the sake of\nyour dear mamma I am come to cheer you up, so dry your tears; you shall go\nto the grand ball to-night, but you must do just as I bid you. Go into the\ngarden and bring me a pumpkin.\" Cinderella brought the finest that was\nthere. Her godmother scooped it out very quickly, and then struck it with\nher wand, upon which it was changed into a beautiful coach. Afterwards,\nthe old lady peeped into the mouse-trap, where she found six mice. She\ntapped them lightly with her wand, and each mouse became a fine horse. The\nrat-trap contained two large rats; one of these she turned into a\ncoachman, and the other into a postilion. The old lady then told\nCinderella to go into the garden and seek for half-a-dozen lizards.\nThese she changed into six footmen, dressed in the gayest livery.\n\nWhen all these things had been done, the kind godmother touching her with\nher wand, changed her worn-out clothes into a beautiful ball-dress\nembroidered with pearls and silver. She then gave her a pair of glass\nslippers, that is, they were woven of the most delicate spun-glass, fine\nas the web of a spider.\n\nWhen Cinderella was thus attired, her godmother made her get into her\nsplendid coach, giving her a caution to leave the ball before the clock\nstruck twelve.\n\n[Illustration]\n\n[Illustration]\n\nOn her arrival, her beauty struck everybody with wonder. The gallant\nPrince gave her a courteous welcome, and led her into the ball-room;\nand the King and Queen were as much enchanted with her, as the Prince\nconducted her to the supper-table, and was too much occupied in waiting\nupon her to partake of anything himself. While seated, Cinderella heard\nthe clock strike three-quarters past eleven. She rose to leave, the Prince\npressing her to accept an invitation for the ball on the following\nevening.\n\nOn reaching home, her godmother praised her for being so punctual, and\nagreed to let her go to the next night's ball.\n\nAlthough she seemed to be tired, her sisters, instead of showing pity,\nteased her with glowing accounts of the splendid scene they had just left,\nand spoke particularly of the beautiful Princess. Cinderella was delighted\nto hear all this, and asked them the name of the Princess, but they\nreplied, nobody knew her. So much did they say in praise of the lady, that\nCinderella expressed a desire to go to the next ball to see the Princess;\nbut this only served to bring out their dislike of poor Cinderella still\nmore, and they would not lend her the meanest of their dresses.\n\nThe next evening the two sisters went to the ball, and Cinderella also,\nwho was still more splendidly dressed than before. Her enjoyment was even\ngreater than at the first ball, and she was so occupied with the Prince's\ntender sayings that she was not so quick in marking the progress of time.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nTo her alarm she heard the clock strike twelve. She fled from the\nball-room; but in a moment the coach changed again to a pumpkin, the\nhorses to mice, the coachman and postilion to rats, the footmen to\nlizards, and Cinderella's beautiful dress to her old shabby clothes. In\nher haste she dropped one of her glass slippers, and reached home, out of\nbreath, with none of her godmother's fairy gifts but one glass slipper.\n\nWhen her sisters arrived after the ball, they spoke in terms of rapture of\nthe unknown Princess, and told Cinderella about the little glass slipper\nshe had dropped, and how the Prince picked it up. It was evident to all\nthe Court that the Prince was determined if possible, to find out the\nowner of the slipper; and a few days afterwards a royal herald proclaimed\nthat the King's son would marry her whose foot the glass slipper should be\nfound exactly to fit.\n\nThis proclamation caused a great sensation. Ladies of all ranks were\npermitted to make a trial of the slipper; but it was of no use. Cinderella\nnow said, \"Let me try--perhaps it may fit me.\" It slipped on in a moment.\nGreat was the vexation of the two sisters at this; but what was their\nastonishment when Cinderella took the fellow slipper out of her pocket!\n\nAt that moment the godmother appeared, and touched Cinderella's clothes\nwith her wand. Her sisters then saw that she was the beautiful lady they\nhad met at the ball, and, throwing themselves at her feet, craved her\nforgiveness.\n\nA short time after, she was married to the Prince, to the intense\ngratification of the whole Court.\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                            ROUTLEDGE'S\n                       THREEPENNY TOY-BOOKS,\n                  WITH SIX COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS,\n\n                     PRINTED BY KRONHEIM & CO.\n\n   5. MY FIRST ALPHABET\n   6. MOTHER GOOSE\n   7. THE BABES IN THE WOOD\n   8. THIS LITTLE PIG\n   9. THE OLD WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A SHOE\n  10. LITTLE BO-PEEP\n  11. NURSERY RHYMES\n  12. FARM-YARD ALPHABET\n  13. JACK AND THE BEANSTALK\n  14. JOHN GILPIN\n  15. OLD MOTHER HUBBARD\n  16. THE THREE BEARS\n  17. THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT\n  18. THE DOGS' DINNER PARTY\n  19. MY MOTHER\n  20. THE CATS' TEA PARTY\n  21. MORE NURSERY RHYMES\n  22. ROBIN REDBREAST\n  23. A, APPLE PIE\n  24. THE RAILWAY ALPHABET\n  25. NURSERY SONGS\n  26. NURSERY DITTIES\n  27. PUNCH AND JUDY\n  28. OUR PETS\n  29. CINDERELLA\n  30. PUSS-IN-BOOTS\n  31. LITTLE RED RIDING-HOOD\n  32. WILD ANIMALS\n  33. TAME ANIMALS\n  34. BIRDS\n  35. JACK THE GIANT KILLER\n  36. BLUE BEARD\n  37. ALADDIN\n  38. THE FORTY THIEVES\n  39. TOM THUMB\n  40. SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD\n\n                    GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS,\n                       LONDON AND NEW YORK.","title":"Cinderella","tradition":"myth-cosmogony","translated_text":null,"word_count":1199}