{"collection":"folklore-oral-tradition","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_77727/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_77727","id":"gutenberg_77727","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77727","summary":null,"tags":["Bears -- Juvenile fiction","Children's stories","Cruelty -- Juvenile fiction","Fairy godmothers -- Juvenile fiction","Fairy tales","Love -- Juvenile fiction","Magic -- Juvenile fiction","Pride and vanity -- Juvenile fiction","Princes -- Juvenile fiction","Stepmothers -- Juvenile fiction"],"text":"[Illustration: CINDERELLA]\n\n[Illustration]\n\n[Illustration]\n\n[Illustration]\n\n[Illustration:\n\n  THIS\n  BOOK BELONGS\n  TO\n]\n\n[Illustration: The Children\u2019s Red Books\n\n\n  VOL. I    { PETER RABBIT.\n            { DICK WHITTINGTON.\n\n  VOL. II   { LITTLE BLACK SAMBO.\n            { UNCLE TOM\u2019S CABIN--TOPSY.\n\n  VOL. III  { THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS.\n            { MOTHER GOOSE RHYMES.\n\n  VOL. IV   { BLACK BEAUTY.\n            { THE LITTLE LAME PRINCE.\n\n  VOL. V    { RAB AND HIS FRIENDS.\n            { J. COLE.\n\n  VOL. VI   { THE ADVENTURES OF A BROWNIE\n            { SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON.\n\n  VOL. VII  { LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD.\n            { SLEEPING BEAUTY.\n\n  VOL. VIII { CINDERELLA.\n            { THE THREE BEARS.\n\n  VOL. IX   { JACK AND THE BEANSTALK.\n            { ROBINSON CRUSOE.\n\n  VOL. X    { ALICE IN WONDERLAND.\n            { THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS.\n\n  VOL. XI   { THE UGLY DUCKLING (ANDERSEN.)\n            { RIP VAN WINKLE.\n\n  VOL. XII  { HANSEL AND GRETEL (GRIMM.)\n            { SNOW WHITE AND ROSE RED\n]\n\n[Illustration: The Children\u2019s\n\nRed Books]\n\n[Illustration]\n\n[Illustration]\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n  CINDERELLA\n  or\n  THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER\n\n  [Illustration]\n\n  Pictured By\n  John R Neill\n\n  [Illustration]\n\n  CHICAGO\n  THE REILLY and BRITTON C^o.\n  Publishers\n\n[Illustration:\n\n  COPYRIGHT, 1908,\n  BY\n  THE REILLY & BRITTON CO.\n]\n\n\n\n\nCINDERELLA\n\n\nThis is the story of a beautiful, motherless young girl whose father\nmarried, for the second time, a haughty and proud widow who had two\ndaughters of her own, both vain and selfish. No sooner was the wedding\nover than the wicked woman began to show herself in her true colors.\nShe could not bear the good qualities of her pretty stepdaughter,\nand the more because they made her own daughters appear the less\nattractive. She made her wash dishes, scrub floors and wait on her own\ndaughters. She gave her a straw bed in the garret to sleep upon, while\nher own daughters slept in fine rooms and upon soft beds.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nThe poor girl bore all this very patiently, and dared not tell her\nfather, who always sided with his wife. When she had done her work she\nused to go into the chimney corner and sit down among the cinders. They\nall called her \u201cCinderwench\u201d except the youngest sister, who was less\nunkind than the eldest. She called her \u201cCinderella.\u201d\n\nHowever, Cinderella, in spite of her shabby clothes, was a hundred\ntimes more beautiful than her stepsisters, in spite of the fine gowns\nwhich they always wore.\n\nOne day the king\u2019s son gave a ball, and the three sisters were invited.\nThe two selfish sisters were delighted, and talked all day long about\nwhat dresses they should wear. This made new trouble for poor little\nCinderella, for it was she who had to iron her sisters\u2019 linen.\n\n\u201cFor my part,\u201d said the eldest, \u201cI will wear my red velvet.\u201d\n\n\u201cAnd I,\u201d said the youngest, \u201cshall wear my golden-flowered silk and\ndiamond belt.\u201d\n\n\u201cCinderella, would you like to go to the ball?\u201d the youngest asked.\n\n\u201cAlas!\u201d said she, \u201cyou\u2019re only jeering at me.\u201d\n\n\u201cYou are right,\u201d they both said; \u201cit would only make the people laugh\nto see a Cinderwench at a ball.\u201d\n\nAt last the happy day came, and the two step-sisters went to court.\nCinderella followed them with her eyes as long as she could, and when\nshe had lost sight of them she began to cry.\n\n\u201cWhat is the matter?\u201d asked her godmother, who saw her in tears.\n\n\u201cI wish I could--I wish I could\u201d--but she could not speak for sobbing.\n\nNow, Cinderella\u2019s godmother was a fairy, and she said to her:\n\n\u201cDo you wish to go to the ball?\u201d\n\n\u201cYes,\u201d cried Cinderella.\n\n\u201cWell,\u201d said the godmother, \u201cbe a good girl, and you shall go. Run\ninto the garden and bring me a pumpkin.\u201d\n\n[Illustration]\n\nCinderella got the biggest she could find, though she could not see how\nthis would help her to go to the ball.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nThe godmother struck the pumpkin with her wand, and it was instantly\nturned into a fine coach, gilded all over with gold. Then she told\nCinderella to bring her the mouse trap, which had six live mice in\nit. Cinderella did as she was told, and her godmother lifted up the\ntrapdoor a little, and as the mice came out she tapped them with her\nwand, and each mouse was at once turned into a fine horse. So now there\nwere six beautiful mouse-colored, dapple-gray horses and a magnificent\ncoach.\n\n\u201cAnd now for a coachman,\u201d said the fairy. \u201cBring me the rat trap.\u201d\n\nCinderella brought the trap, with the three large rats in it. The\nbiggest rat became a fat, jolly old coachman at the fairy\u2019s bidding.\n\n\u201cGo again into the garden and you will find six lizards behind the\nwatering pot. Bring them to me,\u201d she said.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nCinderella had no sooner done so than her godmother turned them into\nsix footmen, who jumped up behind the coach with their liveries of gold\nand silver. The fairy then touched Cinderella with her wand, and in\nan instant she was dressed in cloth of gold and silver, all set with\njewels, and on her feet were a pair of glass slippers. Then Cinderella\ngot up into her coach, and the fairy commanded her not to stay one\nmoment after midnight, for if she did the coach would become a pumpkin\nagain, her horses mice, her coachman a rat, her footmen lizards, and\nher clothes just as they were.\n\nShe promised to do as she was told, and away she drove to the ball.\n\nThe king\u2019s son was told that a great princess whom nobody knew was\ndriving up to the palace, and he ran out to meet her. Everybody was\nastonished when they saw her great beauty. The prince fell in love with\nher at first sight, and he would dance with no one else.\n\nWhen Cinderella was taking refreshments she sat down by her sisters and\nspoke to them, but they did not recognize her. In fact, they felt very\nproud to be noticed by such a princess.\n\nCinderella remembered what her godmother had said, and came home before\n12 o\u2019clock.\n\nWhen the sisters came back from the ball later they could talk of\nnothing but the beautiful lady.\n\nThe next night they went again to the ball at the palace. Cinderella\nwaited until they had gone, and then she went, too, and she looked\nstill more beautiful than the night before.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nShe was having such a fine time that she forgot what time it was until\nshe saw the hands of the clock point to five minutes of 12. She hurried\noff, but as she reached the door it struck twelve. The guard wondered\nhow such a shabby little girl could have gotten in, for she was back\nin her rags again. In her haste, however, she dropped one of her glass\nslippers on the stairs, and the prince, who ran after her, picked it\nup.\n\nThe prince next day sent out a herald with a trumpet, and a little page\nboy with the glass slipper on a velvet cushion, to proclaim that any\nlady whom the glass slipper should fit should become his wife. All the\nladies begged to try it on, but their feet were all too large.\n\nWhen Cinderella\u2019s sisters heard of this they tried to force their feet\ninto the tiny slipper, but it was all in vain. As they were angrily\ngiving it up, Cinderella said:\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\u201cLet me try, please.\u201d\n\n\u201cStupid girl!\u201d said the sisters; \u201cfancy you trying. Go and wash dishes.\u201d\n\nBut the herald said, \u201cLet her try.\u201d\n\n[Illustration]\n\nCinderella sat down, and without any trouble put her foot into the\nslipper. Then she took its mate out of her pocket and put it on. Just\nat that moment her godmother came, and with a touch of her wand changed\nher rags into the most beautiful white satin gown that had ever been\nseen. She was the beautiful lady at the ball once more. Her wicked\nsisters were frightened, and begged her on their knees to forgive\nthem, for they knew she was soon to be queen.\n\nCinderella forgave them gladly, and asked them always to love her. She\nwas then taken to the young prince, and he thought her more charming\nthan ever, and a few days after married her.\n\nCinderella, who was no less good than beautiful, gave her sisters rooms\nin the palace, and married them to two great lords, and they all lived\nhappy ever after.\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nTHE THREE BEARS\n\n[Illustration]\n\n[Illustration:\n\n  COPYRIGHT, 1908,\n  BY\n  THE REILLY & BRITTON CO.\n]\n\n\n\n\nTHE THREE BEARS\n\n\nIt really was the neatest little cottage that ever was seen, and the\nthree bears who lived in it were the tidiest and best-behaved bears in\nall that forest. For, of course, the cottage was in the middle of a\nforest. Bears love quiet, shady places where there are plenty of trees\nto climb. The cottage had a porch covered with honeysuckle, while roses\nclimbed up the walls and peeped into the lattice-windows.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nNow the three bears were not a bit like one another, for one was a\nGreat Big Bear, and one was a Middle-sized Bear, and one was a Tiny\nWee Bear. They kept the cottage very tidy, and every morning they made\nthe great big bed and the middle-sized bed, and the tiny wee bed, and\ndusted the great big chair, and the middle-sized chair, and the tiny\nwee chair before they sat down to breakfast.\n\nOne morning when the porridge was made and had been poured out into\nthe great big bowl, and the middle-sized bowl, and the tiny wee bowl,\nit was so hot that the three bears went out for a walk in the wood, to\npass the time until it cooled. The Great Big Bear and the Middle-Sized\nBear walked along most properly, but the Tiny Wee Bear took his hoop\nand bowled it along in front.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nNow that very morning it happened that Goldilocks lost her way in the\nforest. She was a very pretty little girl, with hair like threads\nof shining gold, and that is how she got her name. But she was very\nself-willed, and fancied she knew better than her mother. That is how\nshe came to lose her way in the wood, for her mother had told her if\nshe wandered from the path she would not be able to find her way home\nagain.\n\nBut Goldilocks had tossed her head and paid no attention. And so it\nhappened that she wandered so far that she could not find her way back,\nand arrived at the bears\u2019 cottage that sunny morning just after they\nhad left it.\n\nIt was a fresh, cool morning, just the sort of morning that made\nGoldilocks want her breakfast more than usual, for she had run out\nbefore it was ready, and when she came to the pretty little cottage she\nskipped for joy.\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\u201cI am sure some kind person lives here, and will give me some bread and\nmilk,\u201d she said to herself. And then she peeped through the open door.\n\n\u201cThere does not seem to be any one at home,\u201d she said anxiously. \u201cBut\noh, what a delicious smell of porridge!\u201d\n\nShe could not wait another moment, but walked in and sat down in the\ngreat big chair and took a spoonful of porridge out of the great big\nbowl \u201cUgh!\u201d she cried, making a face, \u201cthis is far too salt, and this\nchair is much too hard!\u201d\n\nSo she changed her seat and tried the middle-sized chair, and tasted\nthe porridge of the middle-sized bowl.\n\n\u201cOh dear me! this has no salt at all,\u201d she said, \u201cand this chair is far\ntoo soft.\u201d And laying down the spoon she jumped up in a great hurry.\nThen she tried the tiny wee chair and took a spoonful of the porridge\nout of the tiny wee bowl.\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\u201cThis is simply delicious!\u201d she cried, \u201cand the little chair is just\nright, too.\u201d\n\nAnd she ate and ate till she finished all the porridge out of the tiny\nwee bowl! And the tiny little chair was so comfortable that she curled\nherself up in it until suddenly the seat gave a crack and she fell\nright through on to the floor.\n\nGoldilocks picked herself up and looked round to see if she could find\na sofa to rest on, for she was now so sleepy she could scarcely keep\nher eyes open. Then she saw a staircase, and she climbed up at once to\nsee if there was a bed in the room above. And sure enough in the room\nupstairs she found three beds, standing side by side under the open\nlattice-window where the roses peeped in.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nShe threw herself at once on to the great big bed, but it was so\nhard that she rolled off as quickly as she could. Then she tried the\nmiddle-sized bed, but it was so soft that she sank right in and felt\nquite smothered. So then she tried the tiny wee bed, and it was just\nsoft enough, and so deliciously comfortable that she curled herself up\non it with a big sigh of content, and went fast asleep in the twinkling\nof an eye.\n\nPresently home came the three bears from their walk, and they went to\nthe table to begin their breakfast.\n\n\u201cWho has been sitting in my chair?\u201d growled the Great Big Bear in his\ngreat big voice. For the cushion had been pulled all to one side.\n\n\u201cWho has been sitting in my chair?\u201d said the Middle-sized Bear in her\nmiddle-sized voice. For there was a large dent in the cushion where\nGoldilocks had sat.\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\u201cWho has been sitting in my chair, and broken it right through?\u201d said\nthe Tiny Wee Bear in his tiny wee voice.\n\nMeanwhile the Great Big Bear had been staring at his great big bowl of\nporridge which had a spoon sticking in it.\n\n\u201cWho has been eating my porridge?\u201d he growled in his great big voice.\n\n\u201cWho has been eating my porridge?\u201d said the Middle-sized Bear in her\nmiddle-sized voice.\n\n\u201cWho has been eating my porridge and eaten it all up?\u201d cried the Tiny\nWee Bear in his tiny wee voice.\n\nThen the three bears searched all round the room to see if they could\nfind out who had been there. Next they climbed up the stairs to look in\nthe bedroom.\n\nBut the moment the Great Big Bear saw his bed all rumpled and tossed\nabout he growled in his great big voice, \u201cWho has been lying on my bed?\u201d\n\n\u201cWho has been lying on my bed?\u201d said the Middle-sized Bear in her\nmiddle-sized voice.\n\n\u201cWho has been sleeping on my little bed, and lies here still?\u201d cried\nthe Tiny Wee Bear in his tiny wee voice.\n\n[Illustration]\n\n[Illustration]\n\nNow, when the Great Big Bear spoke, Goldilocks dreamed of a\nthunderstorm; and when the Middle-sized Bear spoke she dreamed that the\nwind was making the roses nod. But when the Tiny Wee Bear cried out she\nopened her eyes and was wide awake in a moment. She jumped up and ran\nto the window, and, before the three bears could catch her, she jumped\nout into the garden below. Then she ran through the wood as fast as she\ncould, and never stopped till she reached home. And you may be sure she\nnever went wandering into the wood again. So the Great Big Bear and\nthe Middle-sized Bear and the Tiny Wee Bear ate their porridge in peace\nall the rest of their days.\n\n\n\n\nTRANSCRIBER\u2019S NOTES\n\n\nSuperscripted text is represented as \u201ctext^superscripted\u201d.\n\nMissing ending periods in the list of books \u201cThe Children\u2019s Red Books\u201d\nleft unchanged.\n\nThe original illustration on page 7 ommitted an apostrophe in what\nshould have been \u201cChildren\u2019s\u201d. The illustration itself has been left\nunchanged, but the text caption in this edition has been corrected.\n\nExtraneous apostrophe on page 14 removed.\n\nPage 42: typo \u201carived\u201d and incorrect apostrophe placement in \u201cbear\u2019s\u201d\ncorrected.\n\nInconsistencies in hyphenation have been retained.\n\nTo enhance readability, some illustrations have been moved from their\noriginal locations.","title":"Cinderella : $b or, The little glass slipper","tradition":"folklore-oral-tradition","translated_text":null,"word_count":2678}