Next, the Fairy touched Cinderella’s rags, and they became rich satin robes, trimmed with point lace. Two mice were turned into footmen four grasshoppers into white horses. The girl obeyed, and a touch of the Fairy’s wand turned him into a very smart coachman.
Then she desired Cinderella to go to the trap, and bring her a rat. Bring me a large pumpkin.”Ĭinderella obeyed, and the Fairy, touching it with her wand, turned it into a grand coach. “Do not cry, Cinderella,” she said “you also shall go to the ball, because you are a kind, good girl. When they were gone, Cinderella, whose heart was very sad, sat down and cried bitterly but as she sat sorrowful, thinking of the unkindness of her sisters, a voice called to her from the garden, and she went out to see who was there. “You are right,” replied they, “it would make the people laugh to see Cinderella at a ball.” “Ah!” said she, “you are only teasing me, for I can’t go there.” “Cinderella, would you not be glad to go to the ball?” her sisters said. And they made her dress them for the ball, but never thought of allowing her to go there. It happened, when Cinderella was about seventeen years old, that the King of that country gave a ball, to which all ladies of the land, and among the rest the young girl’s sisters, were invited. She was a very sweet-tempered, good girl, however, and everybody (except her cruel sisters) loved her.
As she grew older they made her work as a servant, and even sift the cinders on which account they used to call her in mockery “Cinderella.” It was not her real name, but she became afterwards so well known by it that her proper one has been forgotten. Now, Cinderella’s sisters did not love her, and were very unkind to her. We would encourage parents to read beforehand if your child is sensitive to such themes.Ĭinderella’s mother died while she was a very little child, leaving her to the care of her father and her step-sisters, who were very much older than herself for Cinderella’s father had been twice married, and her mother was his second wife. This is a vintage fairy tale, and may contain violence.
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