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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/10830-0.txt b/10830-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0d99e17 --- /dev/null +++ b/10830-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,473 @@ +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 10830 *** + +[Illustration] + + +HEWET'S + +HOUSEHOLD STORIES + +FOR LITTLE FOLKS + +ILLUSTRATED + +W. H. THWAITE + +ENGRAVED BY THE BEST ARTISTS. + + +VOL I. + +CINDERELLA + + + +1855 + + + + +[Illustration: Frontispiece] + + + + +CINDERELLA; + +Or, + +THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER. + + +There once lived a gentleman and his wife, who were the parents of a +lovely little daughter. + +When this child was only nine years of age, her mother fell sick. +Finding her death coming on, she called her child to her and said to +her, "My child, always be good; bear every thing that happens to you +with patience, and whatever evil and troubles you may suffer, you will +be happy in the end if you are so." Then the poor lady died, and her +daughter was full of great grief at the loss of a mother so good and +kind. + +The father too was unhappy, but he sought to get rid of his sorrow by +marrying another wife, and he looked out for some prudent lady who might +be a second mother to his child, and a companion to himself. His choice +fell on a widow lady, of a proud and tyrannical temper, who had two +daughters by a former marriage, both as haughty and bad-tempered as +their mother. No sooner was the wedding over, than the step-mother began +to show her bad temper. She could not bear her step-daughter's good +qualities, that only showed up her daughters' unamiable ones still more +obviously, and she accordingly compelled the poor girl to do all the +drudgery of the household. It was she who washed the dishes, and +scrubbed down the stairs, and polished the floors in my lady's chamber +and in those of the two pert misses, her daughters; and while the latter +slept on good feather beds in elegant rooms, furnished with full-length +looking-glasses, their sister lay in a wretched garret on an old straw +mattress. Yet the poor thing bore this ill treatment very meekly, and +did not dare complain to her father, who thought so much of his wife +that he would only have scolded her. + +When her work was done, she used to sit in the chimney-corner amongst +the cinders, which had caused the nickname of _Cinderella_ to be given +her by the family; yet, for all her shabby clothes, Cinderella was a +hundred times prettier than her sisters, let them be dressed ever so +magnificently. + +The poor little Cinder-wench! this harsh stepmother was a sore trial to +her; and how often, as she sate sadly by herself, did she feel that +there is no mother like our own, the dear parent whose flesh and blood +we are, and who bears all our little cares and sorrows tenderly as in +the apple of her eye! + +It happened that the king's son gave a ball, to which he invited all the +nobility; and, as our two young ladies made a great figure in the world, +they were included in the list of invitations. So they began to be very +busy choosing what head-dress and which gown would be the most becoming. +Here was fresh work for poor Cinderella: for it was she, forsooth, who +was to starch and get up their ruffles, and iron all their fine linen; +and nothing but dress was talked about for days together. "I," said the +eldest, "shall put on my red velvet dress, with my point-lace +trimmings." "And I," said the younger sister, "shall wear my usual +petticoat, but shall set it off with my gold brocaded train and my +circlet of diamonds." + +[Illustration: CINDERELLA DRESSING HER SISTER'S HAIR.] + +They sent for a clever tire-woman to prepare the double rows of quilling +for their caps, and they purchased a quantity of fashionably cut +patches. They called in Cinderella to take her advice, as she had such +good taste, and Cinderella not only advised them well, but offered to +dress their hair, which they were pleased to accept. While she was thus +busied, the sisters said to her: "And pray, Cinderella, would you like +to go to the ball?" + +"Nay, you are mocking me," replied the poor girl; "it is not for such as +I to go to balls." "True enough," rejoined they; "folks would laugh to +see a Cinderella at a court ball." + +These two step-sisters were very cruel to Cinderella, and ill-used her +much. Ah! what sweet friends are our own born sisters!--there can be no +substitutes like them in the whole wide world. + +Any other but Cinderella would have dressed their hair awry to punish +them for their impertinence, but she was so good-natured that she +dressed them most becomingly. Although they disdained her, and while +they would themselves make a great figure in the world, sought to +degrade and lower her, see how the lovely disposition of Cinderella +shines out. Although she was not allowed to go to the ball of the king's +son, she not only advised them well how they could array themselves to +appear to the best advantage, but she even--what greatness of heart to +do that!--with her own hands dresses their hair, and in the most +becoming manner her delicate taste can suggest. + +The two sisters were so delighted, that they scarcely ate a morsel for a +couple of days. They spent their whole time before a looking-glass, and +they would be laced so tight, to make their waists as slender as +possible, that more than a dozen stay-laces were broken in the attempt. + +The long-wished-for evening came at last, and these proud misses stepped +into the 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 +degradation. She continued sobbing in the corner of the chimney, until a +rapping at the kitchen-door roused her, and she got up to see what had +occasioned, it. She found a little old beggar-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 like to step in and warm yourself, you can do so, and welcome." +"Thank you, my dear," said the old woman in a feeble, croaking voice. +She then hobbled in and took her seat by the fire. + +"Hey! dearee me! what are all these tears, my child?" said the old +woman. And then Cinderella told the old woman all her griefs; how her +sisters had gone to the ball, and how she wished to go too, but had no +clothes, or means to do so. + +"But you _shall_ go, my darling," said the old woman, "or I am not +Queen of the Faëries or your Godmother. Dry up your tears like a good +god-daughter and do as I bid you, and you shall have clothes and horses +finer than any one." + +Cinderella had heard her father often talk of her godmother, and tell +her that she was one of those good faëries who protect children. Her +spirits revived, and she wiped away her tears. + +The faëry took Cinderella by the hand, and said, "Now, my dear, go into +the garden and fetch me a pumpkin." Cinderella bounded lightly to +execute her commands, and returned with one of the finest and largest +pumpkins she could meet with. It was as big as a beer barrel, and +Cinderella trundled it into the kitchen, wondering what her godmother +would do with it. Her godmother took the pumpkin, and scooped out the +inside of it, leaving nothing but rind; she then struck it with her +wand, and it instantly became one of the most elegant gilt carriages +ever seen. + +She next sent Cinderella into the pantry for the mouse-trap, bidding her +bring six little mice alive which she would find in the trap. Cinderella +hastened to the pantry, and there found the mice as the faëry had said, +which she brought to the old lady, who told her to lift up the door of +the trap but a little way and very gently, so that only one of the mice +might go out at a time. + +Cinderella raised the mouse-trap door, and as the mice came out one by +one, the old woman touched them with her wand, and transformed them into +fine prancing dapple-gray carriage horses with long manes and tails, +which were tied up with light-blue ribands. + +"Now, my dear good child," said the faëry, "here you have a coach and +horses, much handsomer than your sisters', to say the least of them; but +as we have neither a postilion nor a coachman to take care of them, run +quickly to the stable, where the rat-trap is placed, and bring it to +me." + +Cinderella was full of joy, and did not lose a moment; and soon returned +with the trap, in which there were two fine large rats. These, too, were +touched with the wand, and immediately the one was changed into a smart +postilion, and the other into a jolly-looking coachman in full finery. + +Her godmother then said, "My dear Cinderella, you must go to the garden +again before I can complete your equipage; when you get there, keep to +the right side, and close to the wall you will see the watering-pot +standing; look behind it, and there you will find six lizards, which you +must bring to me immediately." + +Cinderella hastened to the garden as she was desired, and found the six +lizards, which she put into her apron and brought to the faëry. Another +touch of the wonderful wand soon converted them into six spruce footmen +in dashing liveries, with powdered hair and pig-tails, three-cornered +cocked hats and gold-headed canes, who immediately jumped up behind the +carriage as nimbly as if they had been footmen and nothing else all +their lives. + +The coachman and postilion having likewise taken their places, the faëry +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, added, "but how can I make my appearance among so many +finely-dressed people in these mean-looking clothes?" + +"Give yourself no uneasiness about that, my dear; the most laborious +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 old woman, assuming her character of Queen of the +Faëries, touched Cinderella with the magic wand, and her clothes were +instantly changed into a most magnificent ball dress, ornamented with +the most costly jewels. The faëry took from her pocket a beautiful pair +of elastic glass slippers, which she caused Cinderella to put on, and +then desired her to get into the carriage with all expedition, as the +ball had already commenced. + +Two footmen opened the carriage door, and assisted the now beautifully +dressed Cinderella into it. Her godmother, before she took leave, +strictly charged her, on no account whatever to stay at the ball after +the clock had struck twelve; and then added, that if she stopped but a +single moment beyond that time, her fine coach, horses, coachman, +postilion, and footmen, and fine apparel, would all return to their +original shapes of pumpkin, mice, rats, lizards, and mean-looking +clothes. + +Cinderella promised faithfully to attend to every thing that the faëry +had mentioned; and then, quite overjoyed, gave the direction to the +footman, who bawled out in a loud and commanding tone 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. + +[ILLUSTRATION: CINDERELLA'S ARRIVAL AT THE PALACE IN HER ELEGANT GILT +CARRIAGE, WHICH ATTRACTS GENERAL NOTICE AS IT DRIVES UP TO THE MARBLE +PORTICO; OF WHICH INFORMATION IS COMMUNICATED TO THE PRINCE, WHO HASTENS +TO THE DOOR AND WELCOMES CINDERELLA, HANDS HER OUT OF THE CARRIAGE, AND +GRACEFULLY LEADS HER INTO THE PALACE, WHERE THE NOBLES WELCOME HER AS A +PRINCESS.] + +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. +Information was quickly taken to the king's son, that a beautiful young +lady, evidently some princess, was in waiting. His Royal Highness +hastened to the door, welcomed Cinderella, and handed her out of the +carriage. He then led her gracefully into the ball-room, and introduced +her to his father, the king. The moment she appeared, all conversation +was hushed, the violins ceased playing, and the dancing stopped short, +so great was the sensation produced by the stranger's beauty. A confused +murmur of admiration fluttered through the crowd, and each was fain to +exclaim, "How surpassingly lovely she is!" The ladies were all busy +examining her head-dress and her clothes, in order to get similar ones +the very next day, if, indeed, they could meet with stuffs of such rich +patterns, and find workwomen clever enough to make them up. "What a +lovely creature! so fair!--so beautiful!--What a handsome figure!--how +elegantly she is dressed!" Even the prince's father, old as he was, +could not behold her with indifference, but wiped his eye-glass and used +it very much, and said very often to the queen, that he had never seen +so sweet a being. + +[Illustration: CINDERELLA IS PRESENTED BY THE PRINCE TO THE KING AND +QUEEN, WHO WELCOME HER WITH THE HONORS DUE TO A GREAT PRINCESS, AND IS +THEN LED INTO THE ROYAL BALL-ROOM.] + +The king's son handed Cinderella to one of the most distinguished seats +on the daïs at the top of the Hall, and begged she would allow him to +hand her some refreshments. Cinderella received them with great grace. +When this was over, the prince requested to have the honour of dancing +with her. Cinderella smiled consent; and the delighted prince +immediately led her out to the head of the dance, just about to +commence. The eyes of the whole company were fixed upon the beautiful +pair. + +The trumpets sounded and the music struck up, and the dance commenced; +but if Cinderella's beauty, elegant figure, and the splendor of her +dress, had before drawn the attention of the whole room, the +astonishment at her dancing was still greater. + +Gracefulness seemed to play in all her motions; the airy lightness with +which she floated along--as buoyant as thistle-down--drew forth a +general murmur of admiration. The hall rang with the loudest +acclamations of applause, and the company, all in one voice, pronounced +her the most elegant creature that had ever been seen. And this was the +little girl who had passed a great part of her life in the kitchen, and +had always been called a "Cinder-wench." + +When the dance was ended, a magnificent feast was served up, consisting +of all delicacies: so much was the young prince engaged with Cinderella, +that he did not eat one morsel of the supper. + +Cinderella drew near her sisters, and frequently spoke to them; and in +her goodness of heart she offered them the delicacies which she had +received from the prince: but they did not know she was their sister. + +When Cinderella heard the clock strike three-quarters past eleven, she +made a low courtesy to the whole assembly and retired in haste. + +You see how fortune befriends the good-hearted, and even out of such +unpromising material as a pumpkin and mice, can make a coach and six, +with which to honor her worthy favorite. So Cinderella goes to the ball; +but to teach her to be diligent and faithful in her engagements, her +faëry godmother enjoins upon her that she return home at twelve. Native +beauty and grace attract the princely heart; and while the king's son +pays no heed to her pretentious sisters, he is all grace and +condescension to little Cinderella. Obedient to her engagement with her +godmother, she returns in all the splendor and honor of the coach and +six. + +On reaching home, she found her godmother; and after thanking her for +the treat she had enjoyed, she ventured to express a wish to return to +the ball on the following evening, as the prince had requested her to +do. + +She was still relating to her godmother all that had happened at court, +when her two sisters knocked at the door. Cinderella went and let them +in, pretending to yawn and stretch herself, and rub her eyes, and +saying, "How late you are!" just as if she was waked up out of a nap, +though, truth to say, she had never felt less disposed to sleep in her +life. "If you had been to the ball," said one of the sisters, "you would +not have thought it late. There came the most beautiful princess ever +seen, who loaded us with polite attentions, and gave us oranges and +citrons." + +Cinderella could scarcely contain her delight, and inquired the name of +the princess. But they replied that nobody knew her name, and that the +king's son was in great trouble about her, and would give the world to +know who she could be. "Is she, then, so very beautiful?" said +Cinderella, smiling. "Oh, my! how I should like to see her! Oh, do, my +Lady Javotte, lend me the yellow dress you wear every day, that I may go +to the ball and have a peep at this wonderful princess." "A likely +story, indeed!" cried Javotte, tossing her head disdainfully, "that I +should lend my clothes to a dirty Cinderella like you!" + +Cinderella expected to be refused, and was not sorry for it, as she +would have been puzzled what to do, had her sister really lent her the +dress she begged to have. + +On the following evening the sisters again went to the court ball, and +so did Cinderella, dressed even more magnificently than before. The +king's son never left her side, and kept paying her the most flattering +attentions. The young lady was nothing loth to listen to him; so it came +to pass that she forgot her godmother's injunctions, and, indeed, lost +her reckoning so completely, that before she deemed it could be eleven +o'clock, she was startled at hearing the first stroke of midnight. She +rose hastily, and flew away like a startled fawn. The prince attempted +to follow her, but she was too swift for him; only, as she flew she +dropped one of her glass slippers, which he picked up very eagerly. +Cinderella reached home quite out of breath, without either coach or +footmen, and with only her shabby clothes on her back; nothing, in +short, remained of her recent magnificence, save a little glass slipper, +the fellow to the one she had lost. + +[Illustration: CINDERELLA DANCING WITH THE PRINCE IS ADMIRED FOR HER +GRACEFULNESS. THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE: SHE HAVING FORGOT HER +GOD-MOTHER'S INSTRUCTIONS, IS ALARMED, FLIES OUT OF THE BALL-ROOM--HER +GORGEOUS APPAREL IS CHANGED INTO THE DRESS OF A CINDER-WENCH, AND HER +SPLENDID EQUIPAGE INTO A PUMPKIN, RATS, MICE AND LIZARDS.] + +The sentinels at the palace gate were closely questioned as to whether +they had not seen a princess coming out; but they answered they had seen +no one except a shabbily dressed girl, who appeared to be a peasant +rather than a young lady. + +On this second night, as you have taken notice, dazzled by worldly show +and the pleasing flattery of her royal lover, Cinderella over-stays her +time, and is compelled to make her way back to her father's house on +foot and in rags--an everlasting lesson to all the pretty little +Cinderellas in the world to keep their word, and to act in good faith by +such as befriend them. Never mind--her heart is in the right place--she +is a charming good creature; and although virtue goes home in rags, it +will leave some token behind--some foot-print by which it can be known +and traced wherever it has once walked. We shall hear from that little +lost glass slipper again! + +[Illustration: CINDERELLA RETURNED SHABBILY DRESSED.] + +When the two sisters returned from the ball, Cinderella asked them +whether they had been well entertained; and whether the beautiful lady +was there? They replied, that she was; but that she had run away as soon +as midnight had struck, and so quickly as to drop one of her dainty +glass slippers, which the king's son had picked up, and was looking at +most fondly during the remainder of the ball; indeed, it seemed beyond a +doubt that he was deeply enamored of the beautiful creature to whom it +belonged. + +They spoke truly enough; for, a few days afterwards, the king's son +caused a proclamation to be made, by sound of trumpet all over the +kingdom, to the effect that he would marry her whose foot should be +found to fit the slipper exactly. So the slipper was first tried on by +all the princesses; then by all the duchesses; and next by all the +persons belonging to the court; but in vain. It was then carried to the +two sisters, who tried with all their might to force their feet into its +delicate proportions, but with no better success. Cinderella, who was +present, and recognized her slipper, now laughed, and said, "Suppose I +were to try?" Her sisters ridiculed such an idea; but the gentleman who +was appointed to try the slipper, having looked attentively at +Cinderella, and perceived how beautiful she was, said that it was but +fair she should do so, as he had orders to try it on every young maiden +in the kingdom. Accordingly, having requested Cinderella to sit down, +she no sooner put her little foot to the slipper, than she drew it on, +and it fitted like wax. The sisters were quite amazed; but their +astonishment increased tenfold when Cinderella drew the fellow slipper +out of her pocket, and put it on. Her godmother then made her +appearance; and, having touched Cinderella's clothes with her wand, made +them still more magnificent than those she had previously worn. + +[Illustration: THE HERALDS OF THE COURT ANNOUNCE THE PROCLAMATION THAT +THE PRINCE WOULD MARRY THE LADY WHOM THE GLASS SLIPPER FITTED. +CINDERELLA TRIES ON THE SLIPPER, WHICH FITS HER DELICATE FOOT, TO THE +GREAT ASTONISHMENT OF HER FAMILY.] + +Her two sisters now recognized her for the beautiful stranger they had +seen at the ball; and, falling at her feet, implored her forgiveness for +their unworthy treatment, and all the insults they had heaped upon her +head. Cinderella raised them, saying, as she embraced them, that she not +only forgave them with all her heart, but wished for their affection. +She was then taken to the palace of the young prince, in whose eyes she +appeared yet more lovely than before, and who married her shortly after. + +Cinderella, who was as good as she was beautiful, allowed her sisters to +lodge in the palace, and gave them in marriage, that same day, to two +lords belonging to the court. + +[Illustration: MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE AND CINDERELLA.] + +The amiable qualities of Cinderella were as conspicuous after as they +had been before marriage. + + + + + * * * * * + + +This series of FAIRY STORIES has for generations been listened to and +read by Children with an inexpressible delight, which other books have +failed to afford them. + +The extravagance of the Stories--the attractive manner of telling +them--the picturesque scenery described--the marvellous deeds +related--the reward of virtue and punishment of vice, upon principles +strictly in accordance with ethical laws, as applied to the formation of +character, render them peculiarly adapted to induce children to acquire +a love for reading, and to aid them to cultivate the affections, +sympathies, fancy, and imagination. + +The principle, that good examples only should be imitated, has been lost +sight of in the Pictorial embellishment of these standard Fairy Stories, +upon the assumption that indifferent pictures are good enough to give +first impressions of Art to Children. If this holds true then language +and morals of a questionable cast will subserve the same ends; but the +fallacy of this dogma notwithstanding, no one upon reflection will +deny. + +That this edition of these Stories may be more perfect than any other +extant, the publisher has embellished it with exquisite specimens of +high Pictorial Art, from which Children may derive those correct ideas +that will mature into the beautiful and grand. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Cinderella, by Henry W. Hewet + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 10830 *** diff --git a/10830-8.txt b/10830-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b0f8a2b --- /dev/null +++ b/10830-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,895 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Cinderella, by Henry W. Hewet + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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: Cinderella + +Author: Henry W. Hewet + +Release Date: January 25, 2004 [EBook #10830] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CINDERELLA *** + + + + +Produced by Internet Archive; University of Florida, Children, Sandra +Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. + + + + + +[Illustration] + + +HEWET'S + +HOUSEHOLD STORIES + +FOR LITTLE FOLKS + +ILLUSTRATED + +W. H. THWAITE + +ENGRAVED BY THE BEST ARTISTS. + + +VOL I. + +CINDERELLA + + + +1855 + + + + +[Illustration: Frontispiece] + + + + +CINDERELLA; + +Or, + +THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER. + + +There once lived a gentleman and his wife, who were the parents of a +lovely little daughter. + +When this child was only nine years of age, her mother fell sick. +Finding her death coming on, she called her child to her and said to +her, "My child, always be good; bear every thing that happens to you +with patience, and whatever evil and troubles you may suffer, you will +be happy in the end if you are so." Then the poor lady died, and her +daughter was full of great grief at the loss of a mother so good and +kind. + +The father too was unhappy, but he sought to get rid of his sorrow by +marrying another wife, and he looked out for some prudent lady who might +be a second mother to his child, and a companion to himself. His choice +fell on a widow lady, of a proud and tyrannical temper, who had two +daughters by a former marriage, both as haughty and bad-tempered as +their mother. No sooner was the wedding over, than the step-mother began +to show her bad temper. She could not bear her step-daughter's good +qualities, that only showed up her daughters' unamiable ones still more +obviously, and she accordingly compelled the poor girl to do all the +drudgery of the household. It was she who washed the dishes, and +scrubbed down the stairs, and polished the floors in my lady's chamber +and in those of the two pert misses, her daughters; and while the latter +slept on good feather beds in elegant rooms, furnished with full-length +looking-glasses, their sister lay in a wretched garret on an old straw +mattress. Yet the poor thing bore this ill treatment very meekly, and +did not dare complain to her father, who thought so much of his wife +that he would only have scolded her. + +When her work was done, she used to sit in the chimney-corner amongst +the cinders, which had caused the nickname of _Cinderella_ to be given +her by the family; yet, for all her shabby clothes, Cinderella was a +hundred times prettier than her sisters, let them be dressed ever so +magnificently. + +The poor little Cinder-wench! this harsh stepmother was a sore trial to +her; and how often, as she sate sadly by herself, did she feel that +there is no mother like our own, the dear parent whose flesh and blood +we are, and who bears all our little cares and sorrows tenderly as in +the apple of her eye! + +It happened that the king's son gave a ball, to which he invited all the +nobility; and, as our two young ladies made a great figure in the world, +they were included in the list of invitations. So they began to be very +busy choosing what head-dress and which gown would be the most becoming. +Here was fresh work for poor Cinderella: for it was she, forsooth, who +was to starch and get up their ruffles, and iron all their fine linen; +and nothing but dress was talked about for days together. "I," said the +eldest, "shall put on my red velvet dress, with my point-lace +trimmings." "And I," said the younger sister, "shall wear my usual +petticoat, but shall set it off with my gold brocaded train and my +circlet of diamonds." + +[Illustration: CINDERELLA DRESSING HER SISTER'S HAIR.] + +They sent for a clever tire-woman to prepare the double rows of quilling +for their caps, and they purchased a quantity of fashionably cut +patches. They called in Cinderella to take her advice, as she had such +good taste, and Cinderella not only advised them well, but offered to +dress their hair, which they were pleased to accept. While she was thus +busied, the sisters said to her: "And pray, Cinderella, would you like +to go to the ball?" + +"Nay, you are mocking me," replied the poor girl; "it is not for such as +I to go to balls." "True enough," rejoined they; "folks would laugh to +see a Cinderella at a court ball." + +These two step-sisters were very cruel to Cinderella, and ill-used her +much. Ah! what sweet friends are our own born sisters!--there can be no +substitutes like them in the whole wide world. + +Any other but Cinderella would have dressed their hair awry to punish +them for their impertinence, but she was so good-natured that she +dressed them most becomingly. Although they disdained her, and while +they would themselves make a great figure in the world, sought to +degrade and lower her, see how the lovely disposition of Cinderella +shines out. Although she was not allowed to go to the ball of the king's +son, she not only advised them well how they could array themselves to +appear to the best advantage, but she even--what greatness of heart to +do that!--with her own hands dresses their hair, and in the most +becoming manner her delicate taste can suggest. + +The two sisters were so delighted, that they scarcely ate a morsel for a +couple of days. They spent their whole time before a looking-glass, and +they would be laced so tight, to make their waists as slender as +possible, that more than a dozen stay-laces were broken in the attempt. + +The long-wished-for evening came at last, and these proud misses stepped +into the 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 +degradation. She continued sobbing in the corner of the chimney, until a +rapping at the kitchen-door roused her, and she got up to see what had +occasioned, it. She found a little old beggar-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 like to step in and warm yourself, you can do so, and welcome." +"Thank you, my dear," said the old woman in a feeble, croaking voice. +She then hobbled in and took her seat by the fire. + +"Hey! dearee me! what are all these tears, my child?" said the old +woman. And then Cinderella told the old woman all her griefs; how her +sisters had gone to the ball, and how she wished to go too, but had no +clothes, or means to do so. + +"But you _shall_ go, my darling," said the old woman, "or I am not +Queen of the Faëries or your Godmother. Dry up your tears like a good +god-daughter and do as I bid you, and you shall have clothes and horses +finer than any one." + +Cinderella had heard her father often talk of her godmother, and tell +her that she was one of those good faëries who protect children. Her +spirits revived, and she wiped away her tears. + +The faëry took Cinderella by the hand, and said, "Now, my dear, go into +the garden and fetch me a pumpkin." Cinderella bounded lightly to +execute her commands, and returned with one of the finest and largest +pumpkins she could meet with. It was as big as a beer barrel, and +Cinderella trundled it into the kitchen, wondering what her godmother +would do with it. Her godmother took the pumpkin, and scooped out the +inside of it, leaving nothing but rind; she then struck it with her +wand, and it instantly became one of the most elegant gilt carriages +ever seen. + +She next sent Cinderella into the pantry for the mouse-trap, bidding her +bring six little mice alive which she would find in the trap. Cinderella +hastened to the pantry, and there found the mice as the faëry had said, +which she brought to the old lady, who told her to lift up the door of +the trap but a little way and very gently, so that only one of the mice +might go out at a time. + +Cinderella raised the mouse-trap door, and as the mice came out one by +one, the old woman touched them with her wand, and transformed them into +fine prancing dapple-gray carriage horses with long manes and tails, +which were tied up with light-blue ribands. + +"Now, my dear good child," said the faëry, "here you have a coach and +horses, much handsomer than your sisters', to say the least of them; but +as we have neither a postilion nor a coachman to take care of them, run +quickly to the stable, where the rat-trap is placed, and bring it to +me." + +Cinderella was full of joy, and did not lose a moment; and soon returned +with the trap, in which there were two fine large rats. These, too, were +touched with the wand, and immediately the one was changed into a smart +postilion, and the other into a jolly-looking coachman in full finery. + +Her godmother then said, "My dear Cinderella, you must go to the garden +again before I can complete your equipage; when you get there, keep to +the right side, and close to the wall you will see the watering-pot +standing; look behind it, and there you will find six lizards, which you +must bring to me immediately." + +Cinderella hastened to the garden as she was desired, and found the six +lizards, which she put into her apron and brought to the faëry. Another +touch of the wonderful wand soon converted them into six spruce footmen +in dashing liveries, with powdered hair and pig-tails, three-cornered +cocked hats and gold-headed canes, who immediately jumped up behind the +carriage as nimbly as if they had been footmen and nothing else all +their lives. + +The coachman and postilion having likewise taken their places, the faëry +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, added, "but how can I make my appearance among so many +finely-dressed people in these mean-looking clothes?" + +"Give yourself no uneasiness about that, my dear; the most laborious +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 old woman, assuming her character of Queen of the +Faëries, touched Cinderella with the magic wand, and her clothes were +instantly changed into a most magnificent ball dress, ornamented with +the most costly jewels. The faëry took from her pocket a beautiful pair +of elastic glass slippers, which she caused Cinderella to put on, and +then desired her to get into the carriage with all expedition, as the +ball had already commenced. + +Two footmen opened the carriage door, and assisted the now beautifully +dressed Cinderella into it. Her godmother, before she took leave, +strictly charged her, on no account whatever to stay at the ball after +the clock had struck twelve; and then added, that if she stopped but a +single moment beyond that time, her fine coach, horses, coachman, +postilion, and footmen, and fine apparel, would all return to their +original shapes of pumpkin, mice, rats, lizards, and mean-looking +clothes. + +Cinderella promised faithfully to attend to every thing that the faëry +had mentioned; and then, quite overjoyed, gave the direction to the +footman, who bawled out in a loud and commanding tone 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. + +[ILLUSTRATION: CINDERELLA'S ARRIVAL AT THE PALACE IN HER ELEGANT GILT +CARRIAGE, WHICH ATTRACTS GENERAL NOTICE AS IT DRIVES UP TO THE MARBLE +PORTICO; OF WHICH INFORMATION IS COMMUNICATED TO THE PRINCE, WHO HASTENS +TO THE DOOR AND WELCOMES CINDERELLA, HANDS HER OUT OF THE CARRIAGE, AND +GRACEFULLY LEADS HER INTO THE PALACE, WHERE THE NOBLES WELCOME HER AS A +PRINCESS.] + +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. +Information was quickly taken to the king's son, that a beautiful young +lady, evidently some princess, was in waiting. His Royal Highness +hastened to the door, welcomed Cinderella, and handed her out of the +carriage. He then led her gracefully into the ball-room, and introduced +her to his father, the king. The moment she appeared, all conversation +was hushed, the violins ceased playing, and the dancing stopped short, +so great was the sensation produced by the stranger's beauty. A confused +murmur of admiration fluttered through the crowd, and each was fain to +exclaim, "How surpassingly lovely she is!" The ladies were all busy +examining her head-dress and her clothes, in order to get similar ones +the very next day, if, indeed, they could meet with stuffs of such rich +patterns, and find workwomen clever enough to make them up. "What a +lovely creature! so fair!--so beautiful!--What a handsome figure!--how +elegantly she is dressed!" Even the prince's father, old as he was, +could not behold her with indifference, but wiped his eye-glass and used +it very much, and said very often to the queen, that he had never seen +so sweet a being. + +[Illustration: CINDERELLA IS PRESENTED BY THE PRINCE TO THE KING AND +QUEEN, WHO WELCOME HER WITH THE HONORS DUE TO A GREAT PRINCESS, AND IS +THEN LED INTO THE ROYAL BALL-ROOM.] + +The king's son handed Cinderella to one of the most distinguished seats +on the daïs at the top of the Hall, and begged she would allow him to +hand her some refreshments. Cinderella received them with great grace. +When this was over, the prince requested to have the honour of dancing +with her. Cinderella smiled consent; and the delighted prince +immediately led her out to the head of the dance, just about to +commence. The eyes of the whole company were fixed upon the beautiful +pair. + +The trumpets sounded and the music struck up, and the dance commenced; +but if Cinderella's beauty, elegant figure, and the splendor of her +dress, had before drawn the attention of the whole room, the +astonishment at her dancing was still greater. + +Gracefulness seemed to play in all her motions; the airy lightness with +which she floated along--as buoyant as thistle-down--drew forth a +general murmur of admiration. The hall rang with the loudest +acclamations of applause, and the company, all in one voice, pronounced +her the most elegant creature that had ever been seen. And this was the +little girl who had passed a great part of her life in the kitchen, and +had always been called a "Cinder-wench." + +When the dance was ended, a magnificent feast was served up, consisting +of all delicacies: so much was the young prince engaged with Cinderella, +that he did not eat one morsel of the supper. + +Cinderella drew near her sisters, and frequently spoke to them; and in +her goodness of heart she offered them the delicacies which she had +received from the prince: but they did not know she was their sister. + +When Cinderella heard the clock strike three-quarters past eleven, she +made a low courtesy to the whole assembly and retired in haste. + +You see how fortune befriends the good-hearted, and even out of such +unpromising material as a pumpkin and mice, can make a coach and six, +with which to honor her worthy favorite. So Cinderella goes to the ball; +but to teach her to be diligent and faithful in her engagements, her +faëry godmother enjoins upon her that she return home at twelve. Native +beauty and grace attract the princely heart; and while the king's son +pays no heed to her pretentious sisters, he is all grace and +condescension to little Cinderella. Obedient to her engagement with her +godmother, she returns in all the splendor and honor of the coach and +six. + +On reaching home, she found her godmother; and after thanking her for +the treat she had enjoyed, she ventured to express a wish to return to +the ball on the following evening, as the prince had requested her to +do. + +She was still relating to her godmother all that had happened at court, +when her two sisters knocked at the door. Cinderella went and let them +in, pretending to yawn and stretch herself, and rub her eyes, and +saying, "How late you are!" just as if she was waked up out of a nap, +though, truth to say, she had never felt less disposed to sleep in her +life. "If you had been to the ball," said one of the sisters, "you would +not have thought it late. There came the most beautiful princess ever +seen, who loaded us with polite attentions, and gave us oranges and +citrons." + +Cinderella could scarcely contain her delight, and inquired the name of +the princess. But they replied that nobody knew her name, and that the +king's son was in great trouble about her, and would give the world to +know who she could be. "Is she, then, so very beautiful?" said +Cinderella, smiling. "Oh, my! how I should like to see her! Oh, do, my +Lady Javotte, lend me the yellow dress you wear every day, that I may go +to the ball and have a peep at this wonderful princess." "A likely +story, indeed!" cried Javotte, tossing her head disdainfully, "that I +should lend my clothes to a dirty Cinderella like you!" + +Cinderella expected to be refused, and was not sorry for it, as she +would have been puzzled what to do, had her sister really lent her the +dress she begged to have. + +On the following evening the sisters again went to the court ball, and +so did Cinderella, dressed even more magnificently than before. The +king's son never left her side, and kept paying her the most flattering +attentions. The young lady was nothing loth to listen to him; so it came +to pass that she forgot her godmother's injunctions, and, indeed, lost +her reckoning so completely, that before she deemed it could be eleven +o'clock, she was startled at hearing the first stroke of midnight. She +rose hastily, and flew away like a startled fawn. The prince attempted +to follow her, but she was too swift for him; only, as she flew she +dropped one of her glass slippers, which he picked up very eagerly. +Cinderella reached home quite out of breath, without either coach or +footmen, and with only her shabby clothes on her back; nothing, in +short, remained of her recent magnificence, save a little glass slipper, +the fellow to the one she had lost. + +[Illustration: CINDERELLA DANCING WITH THE PRINCE IS ADMIRED FOR HER +GRACEFULNESS. THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE: SHE HAVING FORGOT HER +GOD-MOTHER'S INSTRUCTIONS, IS ALARMED, FLIES OUT OF THE BALL-ROOM--HER +GORGEOUS APPAREL IS CHANGED INTO THE DRESS OF A CINDER-WENCH, AND HER +SPLENDID EQUIPAGE INTO A PUMPKIN, RATS, MICE AND LIZARDS.] + +The sentinels at the palace gate were closely questioned as to whether +they had not seen a princess coming out; but they answered they had seen +no one except a shabbily dressed girl, who appeared to be a peasant +rather than a young lady. + +On this second night, as you have taken notice, dazzled by worldly show +and the pleasing flattery of her royal lover, Cinderella over-stays her +time, and is compelled to make her way back to her father's house on +foot and in rags--an everlasting lesson to all the pretty little +Cinderellas in the world to keep their word, and to act in good faith by +such as befriend them. Never mind--her heart is in the right place--she +is a charming good creature; and although virtue goes home in rags, it +will leave some token behind--some foot-print by which it can be known +and traced wherever it has once walked. We shall hear from that little +lost glass slipper again! + +[Illustration: CINDERELLA RETURNED SHABBILY DRESSED.] + +When the two sisters returned from the ball, Cinderella asked them +whether they had been well entertained; and whether the beautiful lady +was there? They replied, that she was; but that she had run away as soon +as midnight had struck, and so quickly as to drop one of her dainty +glass slippers, which the king's son had picked up, and was looking at +most fondly during the remainder of the ball; indeed, it seemed beyond a +doubt that he was deeply enamored of the beautiful creature to whom it +belonged. + +They spoke truly enough; for, a few days afterwards, the king's son +caused a proclamation to be made, by sound of trumpet all over the +kingdom, to the effect that he would marry her whose foot should be +found to fit the slipper exactly. So the slipper was first tried on by +all the princesses; then by all the duchesses; and next by all the +persons belonging to the court; but in vain. It was then carried to the +two sisters, who tried with all their might to force their feet into its +delicate proportions, but with no better success. Cinderella, who was +present, and recognized her slipper, now laughed, and said, "Suppose I +were to try?" Her sisters ridiculed such an idea; but the gentleman who +was appointed to try the slipper, having looked attentively at +Cinderella, and perceived how beautiful she was, said that it was but +fair she should do so, as he had orders to try it on every young maiden +in the kingdom. Accordingly, having requested Cinderella to sit down, +she no sooner put her little foot to the slipper, than she drew it on, +and it fitted like wax. The sisters were quite amazed; but their +astonishment increased tenfold when Cinderella drew the fellow slipper +out of her pocket, and put it on. Her godmother then made her +appearance; and, having touched Cinderella's clothes with her wand, made +them still more magnificent than those she had previously worn. + +[Illustration: THE HERALDS OF THE COURT ANNOUNCE THE PROCLAMATION THAT +THE PRINCE WOULD MARRY THE LADY WHOM THE GLASS SLIPPER FITTED. +CINDERELLA TRIES ON THE SLIPPER, WHICH FITS HER DELICATE FOOT, TO THE +GREAT ASTONISHMENT OF HER FAMILY.] + +Her two sisters now recognized her for the beautiful stranger they had +seen at the ball; and, falling at her feet, implored her forgiveness for +their unworthy treatment, and all the insults they had heaped upon her +head. Cinderella raised them, saying, as she embraced them, that she not +only forgave them with all her heart, but wished for their affection. +She was then taken to the palace of the young prince, in whose eyes she +appeared yet more lovely than before, and who married her shortly after. + +Cinderella, who was as good as she was beautiful, allowed her sisters to +lodge in the palace, and gave them in marriage, that same day, to two +lords belonging to the court. + +[Illustration: MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE AND CINDERELLA.] + +The amiable qualities of Cinderella were as conspicuous after as they +had been before marriage. + + + + + * * * * * + + +This series of FAIRY STORIES has for generations been listened to and +read by Children with an inexpressible delight, which other books have +failed to afford them. + +The extravagance of the Stories--the attractive manner of telling +them--the picturesque scenery described--the marvellous deeds +related--the reward of virtue and punishment of vice, upon principles +strictly in accordance with ethical laws, as applied to the formation of +character, render them peculiarly adapted to induce children to acquire +a love for reading, and to aid them to cultivate the affections, +sympathies, fancy, and imagination. + +The principle, that good examples only should be imitated, has been lost +sight of in the Pictorial embellishment of these standard Fairy Stories, +upon the assumption that indifferent pictures are good enough to give +first impressions of Art to Children. 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Hewet + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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: Cinderella + +Author: Henry W. Hewet + +Release Date: January 25, 2004 [EBook #10830] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CINDERELLA *** + + + + +Produced by Internet Archive; University of Florida, Children, Sandra +Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. + + + + + + +</pre> + +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/title.jpg"><img src= +"images/titlesm.jpg" border="0" alt="Title Page"></a></div> +<br> +<br> +<h1>HEWET'S<br> +HOUSEHOLD STORIES<br> +FOR LITTLE FOLKS</h1> +<br> +<h3>ILLUSTRATED<br> +<br> +W. H. THWAITE<br> +<br> +ENGRAVED BY THE BEST ARTISTS.</h3> +<br> +<h1>VOL I.<br> +<br> +CINDERELLA</h1> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<h3>D. Appleton & Company<br> +<br> +1855</h3> +<p> </p> +<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/001.jpg"><img src= +"images/001sm.jpg" border="0" alt="Frontispiece"></a></div> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<div class="figleft-T"><a href="images/008-t.jpg" ><img src= +"images/008-t.jpg" border="0" alt="T"></a></div> +<p class="center"><b>CINDERELLA;</b><br><br> +Or,<br><br> +THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER.</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p>HERE once lived a gentleman and his wife, who were the parents +of a lovely little daughter.</p> +<p>When this child was only nine years of age, her mother fell +sick. Finding her death coming on, she called her child to her and +said to her, "My child, always be good; bear every thing that +happens to you with patience, and whatever evil and troubles you +may suffer, you will be happy in the end if you are so." Then the +poor lady died, and her daughter was full of great grief at the +loss of a mother so good and kind.</p> +<p>The father too was unhappy, but he sought to get rid of his +sorrow by marrying another wife, and he looked out for some prudent +lady who might be a second mother to his child, and a companion to +himself. His choice fell on a widow lady, of a proud and tyrannical +temper, who had two daughters by a former marriage, both as haughty +and bad-tempered as their mother. No sooner was the wedding over, +than the step-mother began to show her bad temper. She could not +bear her step-daughter's good qualities, that only showed up her +daughters' unamiable ones still more obviously, and she accordingly +compelled the poor girl to do all the drudgery of the household. It +was she who washed the dishes, and scrubbed down the stairs, and +polished the floors in my lady's chamber and in those of the two +pert misses, her daughters; and while the latter slept on good +feather beds in elegant rooms, furnished with full-length +looking-glasses, their sister lay in a wretched garret on an old +straw mattress. Yet the poor thing bore this ill treatment very +meekly, and did not dare complain to her father, who thought so +much of his wife that he would only have scolded her.</p> +<div class="figcenter"><a href= +"images/008.jpg"><img src="images/008sm.jpg" border="0" alt= +"" /></a> +</div> +<p>When her work was done, she used to sit in the chimney-corner +amongst the cinders, which had caused the nickname of +<i>Cinderella</i> to be given her by the family; yet, for all her +shabby clothes, Cinderella was a hundred times prettier than her +sisters, let them be dressed ever so magnificently.</p> +<p>The poor little Cinder-wench! this harsh stepmother was a sore +trial to her; and how often, as she sate sadly by herself, did she +feel that there is no mother like our own, the dear parent whose +flesh and blood we are, and who bears all our little cares and +sorrows tenderly as in the apple of her eye!</p> +<p>It happened that the king's son gave a ball, to which he invited +all the nobility; and, as our two young ladies made a great figure +in the world, they were included in the list of invitations. So +they began to be very busy choosing what head-dress and which gown +would be the most becoming. Here was fresh work for poor +Cinderella: for it was she, forsooth, who was to starch and get up +their ruffles, and iron all their fine linen; and nothing but dress +was talked about for days together. "I," said the eldest, "shall +put on my red velvet dress, with my point-lace trimmings." "And I," +said the younger sister, "shall wear my usual petticoat, but shall +set it off with my gold brocaded train and my circlet of +diamonds."</p> +<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/002.jpg"><img src= +"images/002.jpg" border="0" alt="Cinderella Dressing Her Sister's Hair."></a> +<h5>CINDERELLA DRESSING HER SISTER'S HAIR.</h5> +</div> +<p>They sent for a clever tire-woman to prepare the double rows of +quilling for their caps, and they purchased a quantity of +fashionably cut patches. They called in Cinderella to take her +advice, as she had such good taste, and Cinderella not only advised +them well, but offered to dress their hair, which they were pleased +to accept. While she was thus busied, the sisters said to her: "And +pray, Cinderella, would you like to go to the ball?"</p> +<p>"Nay, you are mocking me," replied the poor girl; "it is not for +such as I to go to balls." "True enough," rejoined they; "folks +would laugh to see a Cinderella at a court ball."</p> +<p>These two step-sisters were very cruel to Cinderella, and +ill-used her much. Ah! what sweet friends are our own born +sisters!—there can be no substitutes like them in the whole +wide world.</p> +<p>Any other but Cinderella would have dressed their hair awry to +punish them for their impertinence, but she was so good-natured +that she dressed them most becomingly. Although they disdained her, +and while they would themselves make a great figure in the world, +sought to degrade and lower her, see how the lovely disposition of +Cinderella shines out. Although she was not allowed to go to the +ball of the king's son, she not only advised them well how they +could array themselves to appear to the best advantage, but she +even—what greatness of heart to do that!—with her own +hands dresses their hair, and in the most becoming manner her +delicate taste can suggest.</p> +<p>The two sisters were so delighted, that they scarcely ate a +morsel for a couple of days. They spent their whole time before a +looking-glass, and they would be laced so tight, to make their +waists as slender as possible, that more than a dozen stay-laces +were broken in the attempt.</p> +<p>The long-wished-for evening came at last, and these proud misses +stepped into the 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 degradation. She continued sobbing in the corner +of the chimney, until a rapping at the kitchen-door roused her, and +she got up to see what had occasioned, it. She found a little old +beggar-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 like to step in and warm +yourself, you can do so, and welcome." "Thank you, my dear," said +the old woman in a feeble, croaking voice. She then hobbled in and +took her seat by the fire.</p> +<p>"Hey! dearee me! what are all these tears, my child?" said the +old woman. And then Cinderella told the old woman all her griefs; +how her sisters had gone to the ball, and how she wished to go too, +but had no clothes, or means to do so.</p> +<p>"But you <i>shall</i> go, my darling," said the old woman, "or I +am not Queen of the Faëries or your Godmother. Dry up your +tears like a good god-daughter and do as I bid you, and you shall +have clothes and horses finer than any one."</p> +<p>Cinderella had heard her father often talk of her godmother, and +tell her that she was one of those good faëries who protect +children. Her spirits revived, and she wiped away her tears.</p> +<p>The faëry took Cinderella by the hand, and said, "Now, my +dear, go into the garden and fetch me a pumpkin." Cinderella +bounded lightly to execute her commands, and returned with one of +the finest and largest pumpkins she could meet with. It was as big +as a beer barrel, and Cinderella trundled it into the kitchen, +wondering what her godmother would do with it. Her godmother took +the pumpkin, and scooped out the inside of it, leaving nothing but +rind; she then struck it with her wand, and it instantly became one +of the most elegant gilt carriages ever seen.</p> +<p>She next sent Cinderella into the pantry for the mouse-trap, +bidding her bring six little mice alive which she would find in the +trap. Cinderella hastened to the pantry, and there found the mice +as the faëry had said, which she brought to the old lady, who +told her to lift up the door of the trap but a little way and very +gently, so that only one of the mice might go out at a time.</p> +<p>Cinderella raised the mouse-trap door, and as the mice came out +one by one, the old woman touched them with her wand, and +transformed them into fine prancing dapple-gray carriage horses +with long manes and tails, which were tied up with light-blue +ribands.</p> +<p>"Now, my dear good child," said the faëry, "here you have a +coach and horses, much handsomer than your sisters', to say the +least of them; but as we have neither a postilion nor a coachman to +take care of them, run quickly to the stable, where the rat-trap is +placed, and bring it to me."</p> +<p>Cinderella was full of joy, and did not lose a moment; and soon +returned with the trap, in which there were two fine large rats. +These, too, were touched with the wand, and immediately the one was +changed into a smart postilion, and the other into a jolly-looking +coachman in full finery.</p> +<p>Her godmother then said, "My dear Cinderella, you must go to the +garden again before I can complete your equipage; when you get +there, keep to the right side, and close to the wall you will see +the watering-pot standing; look behind it, and there you will find +six lizards, which you must bring to me immediately."</p> +<p>Cinderella hastened to the garden as she was desired, and found +the six lizards, which she put into her apron and brought to the +faëry. Another touch of the wonderful wand soon converted them +into six spruce footmen in dashing liveries, with powdered hair and +pig-tails, three-cornered cocked hats and gold-headed canes, who +immediately jumped up behind the carriage as nimbly as if they had +been footmen and nothing else all their lives.</p> +<p>The coachman and postilion having likewise taken their places, +the faëry 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?"</p> +<p>"O yes, dear godmother," replied Cinderella; and then, with a +good deal of hesitation, added, "but how can I make my appearance +among so many finely-dressed people in these mean-looking +clothes?"</p> +<p>"Give yourself no uneasiness about that, my dear; the most +laborious part of our task is already accomplished, and it will be +hard if I cannot make your dress correspond with your coach and +servants."</p> +<p>On saying this, the old woman, assuming her character of Queen +of the Faëries, touched Cinderella with the magic wand, and +her clothes were instantly changed into a most magnificent ball +dress, ornamented with the most costly jewels. The faëry took +from her pocket a beautiful pair of elastic glass slippers, which +she caused Cinderella to put on, and then desired her to get into +the carriage with all expedition, as the ball had already +commenced.</p> +<p>Two footmen opened the carriage door, and assisted the now +beautifully dressed Cinderella into it. Her godmother, before she +took leave, strictly charged her, on no account whatever to stay at +the ball after the clock had struck twelve; and then added, that if +she stopped but a single moment beyond that time, her fine coach, +horses, coachman, postilion, and footmen, and fine apparel, would +all return to their original shapes of pumpkin, mice, rats, +lizards, and mean-looking clothes.</p> +<p>Cinderella promised faithfully to attend to every thing that the +faëry had mentioned; and then, quite overjoyed, gave the +direction to the footman, who bawled out in a loud and commanding +tone 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.</p> +<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/016-1.jpg"><img +src="images/016-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Cinderella's Arrival At The +Palace In Her Elegant Gilt Carriage, Which Attracts General Notice +As It Drives Up To The Marble Portico;"></a></div> +<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/016-2.jpg"><img +src="images/016-2.jpg" border="0" alt= +"Of Which Information Is Communicated To The Prince, Who Hastens To +The Door And Welcomes Cinderella, Hands Her Out Of The Carriage, And +Gracefully Leads Her Into The Palace, Where The Nobles Welcome Her As +A Princess."></a></div> +<h5>CINDERELLA'S ARRIVAL AT THE PALACE IN HER ELEGANT GILT +CARRIAGE, WHICH ATTRACTS GENERAL NOTICE AS IT DRIVES UP TO THE +MARBLE PORTICO; OF WHICH INFORMATION IS COMMUNICATED TO THE PRINCE, +WHO HASTENS TO THE DOOR AND WELCOMES CINDERELLA, HANDS HER OUT OF +THE CARRIAGE, AND GRACEFULLY LEADS HER INTO THE PALACE, WHERE THE +NOBLES WELCOME HER AS A PRINCESS.</h5> +<p>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. Information was quickly taken to the king's son, that a +beautiful young lady, evidently some princess, was in waiting. His +Royal Highness hastened to the door, welcomed Cinderella, and +handed her out of the carriage. He then led her gracefully into the +ball-room, and introduced her to his father, the king. The moment +she appeared, all conversation was hushed, the violins ceased +playing, and the dancing stopped short, so great was the sensation +produced by the stranger's beauty. A confused murmur of admiration +fluttered through the crowd, and each was fain to exclaim, "How +surpassingly lovely she is!" The ladies were all busy examining her +head-dress and her clothes, in order to get similar ones the very +next day, if, indeed, they could meet with stuffs of such rich +patterns, and find workwomen clever enough to make them up. "What a +lovely creature! so fair!—so beautiful!—What a handsome +figure!—how elegantly she is dressed!" Even the prince's +father, old as he was, could not behold her with indifference, but +wiped his eye-glass and used it very much, and said very often to +the queen, that he had never seen so sweet a being.</p> +<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/020-1.jpg"> +<img src="images/020-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Cinderella Is Presented +By The Prince To The King And Queen, Who Welcome Her With The Honors +Due To A Great Princess,"></a></div> +<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/020-2.jpg"><img src="images/020-2.jpg" +border="0" alt="And Is Then Led Into The Royal Ball-Room."></a></div> +<h5>CINDERELLA IS PRESENTED BY THE PRINCE TO THE KING AND QUEEN, +WHO WELCOME HER WITH THE HONORS DUE TO A GREAT PRINCESS, AND IS +THEN LED INTO THE ROYAL BALL-ROOM.</h5> +<p>The king's son handed Cinderella to one of the most +distinguished seats on the daïs at the top of the Hall, and +begged she would allow him to hand her some refreshments. +Cinderella received them with great grace. When this was over, the +prince requested to have the honour of dancing with her. Cinderella +smiled consent; and the delighted prince immediately led her out to +the head of the dance, just about to commence. The eyes of the +whole company were fixed upon the beautiful pair.</p> +<p>The trumpets sounded and the music struck up, and the dance +commenced; but if Cinderella's beauty, elegant figure, and the +splendor of her dress, had before drawn the attention of the whole +room, the astonishment at her dancing was still greater.</p> +<p>Gracefulness seemed to play in all her motions; the airy +lightness with which she floated along—as buoyant as +thistle-down—drew forth a general murmur of admiration. The +hall rang with the loudest acclamations of applause, and the +company, all in one voice, pronounced her the most elegant creature +that had ever been seen. And this was the little girl who had +passed a great part of her life in the kitchen, and had always been +called a "Cinder-wench."</p> +<p>When the dance was ended, a magnificent feast was served up, +consisting of all delicacies: so much was the young prince engaged +with Cinderella, that he did not eat one morsel of the supper.</p> +<p>Cinderella drew near her sisters, and frequently spoke to them; +and in her goodness of heart she offered them the delicacies which +she had received from the prince: but they did not know she was +their sister.</p> +<p>When Cinderella heard the clock strike three-quarters past +eleven, she made a low courtesy to the whole assembly and retired +in haste.</p> +<p>You see how fortune befriends the good-hearted, and even out of +such unpromising material as a pumpkin and mice, can make a coach +and six, with which to honor her worthy favorite. So Cinderella +goes to the ball; but to teach her to be diligent and faithful in +her engagements, her faëry godmother enjoins upon her that she +return home at twelve. Native beauty and grace attract the princely +heart; and while the king's son pays no heed to her pretentious +sisters, he is all grace and condescension to little Cinderella. +Obedient to her engagement with her godmother, she returns in all +the splendor and honor of the coach and six.</p> +<p>On reaching home, she found her godmother; and after thanking +her for the treat she had enjoyed, she ventured to express a wish +to return to the ball on the following evening, as the prince had +requested her to do.</p> +<p>She was still relating to her godmother all that had happened at +court, when her two sisters knocked at the door. Cinderella went +and let them in, pretending to yawn and stretch herself, and rub +her eyes, and saying, "How late you are!" just as if she was waked +up out of a nap, though, truth to say, she had never felt less +disposed to sleep in her life. "If you had been to the ball," said +one of the sisters, "you would not have thought it late. There came +the most beautiful princess ever seen, who loaded us with polite +attentions, and gave us oranges and citrons."</p> +<p>Cinderella could scarcely contain her delight, and inquired the +name of the princess. But they replied that nobody knew her name, +and that the king's son was in great trouble about her, and would +give the world to know who she could be. "Is she, then, so very +beautiful?" said Cinderella, smiling. "Oh, my! how I should like to +see her! Oh, do, my Lady Javotte, lend me the yellow dress you wear +every day, that I may go to the ball and have a peep at this +wonderful princess." "A likely story, indeed!" cried Javotte, +tossing her head disdainfully, "that I should lend my clothes to a +dirty Cinderella like you!"</p> +<p>Cinderella expected to be refused, and was not sorry for it, as +she would have been puzzled what to do, had her sister really lent +her the dress she begged to have.</p> +<p>On the following evening the sisters again went to the court +ball, and so did Cinderella, dressed even more magnificently than +before. The king's son never left her side, and kept paying her the +most flattering attentions. The young lady was nothing loth to +listen to him; so it came to pass that she forgot her godmother's +injunctions, and, indeed, lost her reckoning so completely, that +before she deemed it could be eleven o'clock, she was startled at +hearing the first stroke of midnight. She rose hastily, and flew +away like a startled fawn. The prince attempted to follow her, but +she was too swift for him; only, as she flew she dropped one of her +glass slippers, which he picked up very eagerly. Cinderella reached +home quite out of breath, without either coach or footmen, and with +only her shabby clothes on her back; nothing, in short, remained of +her recent magnificence, save a little glass slipper, the fellow to +the one she had lost.</p> +<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/024-1.jpg"><img +src="images/024-1.jpg" border="0" alt= +"Cinderella Dancing With the Prince is Admired for Her Gracefulness. +The Clock Strikes Twelve: She Having Forgot Her God-mother's +Instructions, is Alarmed, Flies out of the Ball-room—"></a></div> +<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/024-2.jpg"><img +src="images/024-2.jpg" border="0" alt="Her Gorgeous Apparel is Changed +Into the Dress of a Cinder-wench, and Her Splendid Equipage Into a +Pumpkin, Rats, Mice and Lizards"></a></div> +<h5>CINDERELLA DANCING WITH THE PRINCE IS ADMIRED FOR HER +GRACEFULNESS. THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE: SHE HAVING FORGOT HER +GOD-MOTHER'S INSTRUCTIONS, IS ALARMED, FLIES OUT OF THE +BALL-ROOM--HER GORGEOUS APPAREL IS CHANGED INTO THE DRESS OF A +CINDER-WENCH, AND HER SPLENDID EQUIPAGE INTO A PUMPKIN, RATS, MICE +AND LIZARDS.</h5> +<p>The sentinels at the palace gate were closely questioned as to +whether they had not seen a princess coming out; but they answered +they had seen no one except a shabbily dressed girl, who appeared +to be a peasant rather than a young lady.</p> +<p>On this second night, as you have taken notice, dazzled by +worldly show and the pleasing flattery of her royal lover, +Cinderella over-stays her time, and is compelled to make her way +back to her father's house on foot and in rags—an everlasting +lesson to all the pretty little Cinderellas in the world to keep +their word, and to act in good faith by such as befriend them. +Never mind—her heart is in the right place—she is a +charming good creature; and although virtue goes home in rags, it +will leave some token behind—some foot-print by which it can +be known and traced wherever it has once walked. We shall hear from +that little lost glass slipper again!</p> +<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/033.jpg"><img +src="images/033.jpg" border="0" alt="Cinderella Returned Shabbily Dressed."> +</a></div> +<h5>CINDERELLA RETURNED SHABBILY DRESSED.</h5> +<p>When the two sisters returned from the ball, Cinderella asked +them whether they had been well entertained; and whether the +beautiful lady was there? They replied, that she was; but that she +had run away as soon as midnight had struck, and so quickly as to +drop one of her dainty glass slippers, which the king's son had +picked up, and was looking at most fondly during the remainder of +the ball; indeed, it seemed beyond a doubt that he was deeply +enamored of the beautiful creature to whom it belonged.</p> +<p>They spoke truly enough; for, a few days afterwards, the king's +son caused a proclamation to be made, by sound of trumpet all over +the kingdom, to the effect that he would marry her whose foot +should be found to fit the slipper exactly. So the slipper was +first tried on by all the princesses; then by all the duchesses; +and next by all the persons belonging to the court; but in vain. It +was then carried to the two sisters, who tried with all their might +to force their feet into its delicate proportions, but with no +better success. Cinderella, who was present, and recognized her +slipper, now laughed, and said, "Suppose I were to try?" Her +sisters ridiculed such an idea; but the gentleman who was appointed +to try the slipper, having looked attentively at Cinderella, and +perceived how beautiful she was, said that it was but fair she +should do so, as he had orders to try it on every young maiden in +the kingdom. Accordingly, having requested Cinderella to sit down, +she no sooner put her little foot to the slipper, than she drew it +on, and it fitted like wax. The sisters were quite amazed; but +their astonishment increased tenfold when Cinderella drew the +fellow slipper out of her pocket, and put it on. Her godmother then +made her appearance; and, having touched Cinderella's clothes with +her wand, made them still more magnificent than those she had +previously worn.</p> +<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/036-1.jpg"><img +src="images/036-1.jpg" border="0" alt= +"The Heralds of the Court Announce The Proclamation That The Prince +Would Marry the Lady Whom The Glass Slipper Fitted."></a></div> +<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/036-2.jpg"><img +src="images/036-2.jpg" border="0" alt= +"Cinderella Tries on the Slipper, Which Fits Her Delicate Foot, +to The Great Astonishment of Her Family."></a></div> +<h5>THE HERALDS OF THE COURT ANNOUNCE THE PROCLAMATION THAT THE +PRINCE WOULD MARRY THE LADY WHOM THE GLASS SLIPPER FITTED. +CINDERELLA TRIES ON THE SLIPPER, WHICH FITS HER DELICATE FOOT, TO +THE GREAT ASTONISHMENT OF HER FAMILY.</h5> +<p>Her two sisters now recognized her for the beautiful stranger +they had seen at the ball; and, falling at her feet, implored her +forgiveness for their unworthy treatment, and all the insults they +had heaped upon her head. Cinderella raised them, saying, as she +embraced them, that she not only forgave them with all her heart, +but wished for their affection. She was then taken to the palace of +the young prince, in whose eyes she appeared yet more lovely than +before, and who married her shortly after.</p> +<p>Cinderella, who was as good as she was beautiful, allowed her +sisters to lodge in the palace, and gave them in marriage, that +same day, to two lords belonging to the court.</p> +<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/039.jpg"><img +src="images/039.jpg" border="0" alt= +"Marriage of the Prince and Cinderella."></a></div> +<h5>MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE AND CINDERELLA.</h5> +<p>The amiable qualities of Cinderella were as conspicuous after as +they had been before marriage.</p> +<p> </p> +<hr class="full"> +<p> </p> +<div class="figleft"><a href="images/cvr_f.jpg"><img src= +"images/cvr_fsm.jpg" border="0" alt="Front Cover"></a></div> +<div class="figright"><a href="images/cvr_b.jpg"><img src= +"images/cvr_bsm.jpg" border="0" alt="Back Cover"></a></div> +<p>This series of FAIRY STORIES has for generations been listened +to and read by Children with an inexpressible delight, which other +books have failed to afford them.</p> +<p>The extravagance of the Stories—the attractive manner of +telling them—the picturesque scenery described—the +marvellous deeds related—the reward of virtue and punishment +of vice, upon principles strictly in accordance with ethical laws, +as applied to the formation of character, render them peculiarly +adapted to induce children to acquire a love for reading, and to +aid them to cultivate the affections, sympathies, fancy, and +imagination.</p> +<p>The principle, that good examples only should be imitated, has +been lost sight of in the Pictorial embellishment of these standard +Fairy Stories, upon the assumption that indifferent pictures are +good enough to give first impressions of Art to Children. If this +holds true then language and morals of a questionable cast will +subserve the same ends; but the fallacy of this dogma +notwithstanding, no one upon reflection will deny.</p> +<p>That this edition of these Stories may be more perfect than any +other extant, the publisher has embellished it with exquisite +specimens of high Pictorial Art, from which Children may derive +those correct ideas that will mature into the beautiful and +grand.</p> +<p> </p> +<hr class="full"> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Cinderella, by Henry W. 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Hewet + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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: Cinderella + +Author: Henry W. Hewet + +Release Date: January 25, 2004 [EBook #10830] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CINDERELLA *** + + + + +Produced by Internet Archive; University of Florida, Children, Sandra +Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. + + + + + +[Illustration] + + +HEWET'S + +HOUSEHOLD STORIES + +FOR LITTLE FOLKS + +ILLUSTRATED + +W. H. THWAITE + +ENGRAVED BY THE BEST ARTISTS. + + +VOL I. + +CINDERELLA + + + +1855 + + + + +[Illustration: Frontispiece] + + + + +CINDERELLA; + +Or, + +THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER. + + +There once lived a gentleman and his wife, who were the parents of a +lovely little daughter. + +When this child was only nine years of age, her mother fell sick. +Finding her death coming on, she called her child to her and said to +her, "My child, always be good; bear every thing that happens to you +with patience, and whatever evil and troubles you may suffer, you will +be happy in the end if you are so." Then the poor lady died, and her +daughter was full of great grief at the loss of a mother so good and +kind. + +The father too was unhappy, but he sought to get rid of his sorrow by +marrying another wife, and he looked out for some prudent lady who might +be a second mother to his child, and a companion to himself. His choice +fell on a widow lady, of a proud and tyrannical temper, who had two +daughters by a former marriage, both as haughty and bad-tempered as +their mother. No sooner was the wedding over, than the step-mother began +to show her bad temper. She could not bear her step-daughter's good +qualities, that only showed up her daughters' unamiable ones still more +obviously, and she accordingly compelled the poor girl to do all the +drudgery of the household. It was she who washed the dishes, and +scrubbed down the stairs, and polished the floors in my lady's chamber +and in those of the two pert misses, her daughters; and while the latter +slept on good feather beds in elegant rooms, furnished with full-length +looking-glasses, their sister lay in a wretched garret on an old straw +mattress. Yet the poor thing bore this ill treatment very meekly, and +did not dare complain to her father, who thought so much of his wife +that he would only have scolded her. + +When her work was done, she used to sit in the chimney-corner amongst +the cinders, which had caused the nickname of _Cinderella_ to be given +her by the family; yet, for all her shabby clothes, Cinderella was a +hundred times prettier than her sisters, let them be dressed ever so +magnificently. + +The poor little Cinder-wench! this harsh stepmother was a sore trial to +her; and how often, as she sate sadly by herself, did she feel that +there is no mother like our own, the dear parent whose flesh and blood +we are, and who bears all our little cares and sorrows tenderly as in +the apple of her eye! + +It happened that the king's son gave a ball, to which he invited all the +nobility; and, as our two young ladies made a great figure in the world, +they were included in the list of invitations. So they began to be very +busy choosing what head-dress and which gown would be the most becoming. +Here was fresh work for poor Cinderella: for it was she, forsooth, who +was to starch and get up their ruffles, and iron all their fine linen; +and nothing but dress was talked about for days together. "I," said the +eldest, "shall put on my red velvet dress, with my point-lace +trimmings." "And I," said the younger sister, "shall wear my usual +petticoat, but shall set it off with my gold brocaded train and my +circlet of diamonds." + +[Illustration: CINDERELLA DRESSING HER SISTER'S HAIR.] + +They sent for a clever tire-woman to prepare the double rows of quilling +for their caps, and they purchased a quantity of fashionably cut +patches. They called in Cinderella to take her advice, as she had such +good taste, and Cinderella not only advised them well, but offered to +dress their hair, which they were pleased to accept. While she was thus +busied, the sisters said to her: "And pray, Cinderella, would you like +to go to the ball?" + +"Nay, you are mocking me," replied the poor girl; "it is not for such as +I to go to balls." "True enough," rejoined they; "folks would laugh to +see a Cinderella at a court ball." + +These two step-sisters were very cruel to Cinderella, and ill-used her +much. Ah! what sweet friends are our own born sisters!--there can be no +substitutes like them in the whole wide world. + +Any other but Cinderella would have dressed their hair awry to punish +them for their impertinence, but she was so good-natured that she +dressed them most becomingly. Although they disdained her, and while +they would themselves make a great figure in the world, sought to +degrade and lower her, see how the lovely disposition of Cinderella +shines out. Although she was not allowed to go to the ball of the king's +son, she not only advised them well how they could array themselves to +appear to the best advantage, but she even--what greatness of heart to +do that!--with her own hands dresses their hair, and in the most +becoming manner her delicate taste can suggest. + +The two sisters were so delighted, that they scarcely ate a morsel for a +couple of days. They spent their whole time before a looking-glass, and +they would be laced so tight, to make their waists as slender as +possible, that more than a dozen stay-laces were broken in the attempt. + +The long-wished-for evening came at last, and these proud misses stepped +into the 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 +degradation. She continued sobbing in the corner of the chimney, until a +rapping at the kitchen-door roused her, and she got up to see what had +occasioned, it. She found a little old beggar-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 like to step in and warm yourself, you can do so, and welcome." +"Thank you, my dear," said the old woman in a feeble, croaking voice. +She then hobbled in and took her seat by the fire. + +"Hey! dearee me! what are all these tears, my child?" said the old +woman. And then Cinderella told the old woman all her griefs; how her +sisters had gone to the ball, and how she wished to go too, but had no +clothes, or means to do so. + +"But you _shall_ go, my darling," said the old woman, "or I am not +Queen of the Faeries or your Godmother. Dry up your tears like a good +god-daughter and do as I bid you, and you shall have clothes and horses +finer than any one." + +Cinderella had heard her father often talk of her godmother, and tell +her that she was one of those good faeries who protect children. Her +spirits revived, and she wiped away her tears. + +The faery took Cinderella by the hand, and said, "Now, my dear, go into +the garden and fetch me a pumpkin." Cinderella bounded lightly to +execute her commands, and returned with one of the finest and largest +pumpkins she could meet with. It was as big as a beer barrel, and +Cinderella trundled it into the kitchen, wondering what her godmother +would do with it. Her godmother took the pumpkin, and scooped out the +inside of it, leaving nothing but rind; she then struck it with her +wand, and it instantly became one of the most elegant gilt carriages +ever seen. + +She next sent Cinderella into the pantry for the mouse-trap, bidding her +bring six little mice alive which she would find in the trap. Cinderella +hastened to the pantry, and there found the mice as the faery had said, +which she brought to the old lady, who told her to lift up the door of +the trap but a little way and very gently, so that only one of the mice +might go out at a time. + +Cinderella raised the mouse-trap door, and as the mice came out one by +one, the old woman touched them with her wand, and transformed them into +fine prancing dapple-gray carriage horses with long manes and tails, +which were tied up with light-blue ribands. + +"Now, my dear good child," said the faery, "here you have a coach and +horses, much handsomer than your sisters', to say the least of them; but +as we have neither a postilion nor a coachman to take care of them, run +quickly to the stable, where the rat-trap is placed, and bring it to +me." + +Cinderella was full of joy, and did not lose a moment; and soon returned +with the trap, in which there were two fine large rats. These, too, were +touched with the wand, and immediately the one was changed into a smart +postilion, and the other into a jolly-looking coachman in full finery. + +Her godmother then said, "My dear Cinderella, you must go to the garden +again before I can complete your equipage; when you get there, keep to +the right side, and close to the wall you will see the watering-pot +standing; look behind it, and there you will find six lizards, which you +must bring to me immediately." + +Cinderella hastened to the garden as she was desired, and found the six +lizards, which she put into her apron and brought to the faery. Another +touch of the wonderful wand soon converted them into six spruce footmen +in dashing liveries, with powdered hair and pig-tails, three-cornered +cocked hats and gold-headed canes, who immediately jumped up behind the +carriage as nimbly as if they had been footmen and nothing else all +their lives. + +The coachman and postilion having likewise taken their places, the faery +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, added, "but how can I make my appearance among so many +finely-dressed people in these mean-looking clothes?" + +"Give yourself no uneasiness about that, my dear; the most laborious +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 old woman, assuming her character of Queen of the +Faeries, touched Cinderella with the magic wand, and her clothes were +instantly changed into a most magnificent ball dress, ornamented with +the most costly jewels. The faery took from her pocket a beautiful pair +of elastic glass slippers, which she caused Cinderella to put on, and +then desired her to get into the carriage with all expedition, as the +ball had already commenced. + +Two footmen opened the carriage door, and assisted the now beautifully +dressed Cinderella into it. Her godmother, before she took leave, +strictly charged her, on no account whatever to stay at the ball after +the clock had struck twelve; and then added, that if she stopped but a +single moment beyond that time, her fine coach, horses, coachman, +postilion, and footmen, and fine apparel, would all return to their +original shapes of pumpkin, mice, rats, lizards, and mean-looking +clothes. + +Cinderella promised faithfully to attend to every thing that the faery +had mentioned; and then, quite overjoyed, gave the direction to the +footman, who bawled out in a loud and commanding tone 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. + +[ILLUSTRATION: CINDERELLA'S ARRIVAL AT THE PALACE IN HER ELEGANT GILT +CARRIAGE, WHICH ATTRACTS GENERAL NOTICE AS IT DRIVES UP TO THE MARBLE +PORTICO; OF WHICH INFORMATION IS COMMUNICATED TO THE PRINCE, WHO HASTENS +TO THE DOOR AND WELCOMES CINDERELLA, HANDS HER OUT OF THE CARRIAGE, AND +GRACEFULLY LEADS HER INTO THE PALACE, WHERE THE NOBLES WELCOME HER AS A +PRINCESS.] + +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. +Information was quickly taken to the king's son, that a beautiful young +lady, evidently some princess, was in waiting. His Royal Highness +hastened to the door, welcomed Cinderella, and handed her out of the +carriage. He then led her gracefully into the ball-room, and introduced +her to his father, the king. The moment she appeared, all conversation +was hushed, the violins ceased playing, and the dancing stopped short, +so great was the sensation produced by the stranger's beauty. A confused +murmur of admiration fluttered through the crowd, and each was fain to +exclaim, "How surpassingly lovely she is!" The ladies were all busy +examining her head-dress and her clothes, in order to get similar ones +the very next day, if, indeed, they could meet with stuffs of such rich +patterns, and find workwomen clever enough to make them up. "What a +lovely creature! so fair!--so beautiful!--What a handsome figure!--how +elegantly she is dressed!" Even the prince's father, old as he was, +could not behold her with indifference, but wiped his eye-glass and used +it very much, and said very often to the queen, that he had never seen +so sweet a being. + +[Illustration: CINDERELLA IS PRESENTED BY THE PRINCE TO THE KING AND +QUEEN, WHO WELCOME HER WITH THE HONORS DUE TO A GREAT PRINCESS, AND IS +THEN LED INTO THE ROYAL BALL-ROOM.] + +The king's son handed Cinderella to one of the most distinguished seats +on the dais at the top of the Hall, and begged she would allow him to +hand her some refreshments. Cinderella received them with great grace. +When this was over, the prince requested to have the honour of dancing +with her. Cinderella smiled consent; and the delighted prince +immediately led her out to the head of the dance, just about to +commence. The eyes of the whole company were fixed upon the beautiful +pair. + +The trumpets sounded and the music struck up, and the dance commenced; +but if Cinderella's beauty, elegant figure, and the splendor of her +dress, had before drawn the attention of the whole room, the +astonishment at her dancing was still greater. + +Gracefulness seemed to play in all her motions; the airy lightness with +which she floated along--as buoyant as thistle-down--drew forth a +general murmur of admiration. The hall rang with the loudest +acclamations of applause, and the company, all in one voice, pronounced +her the most elegant creature that had ever been seen. And this was the +little girl who had passed a great part of her life in the kitchen, and +had always been called a "Cinder-wench." + +When the dance was ended, a magnificent feast was served up, consisting +of all delicacies: so much was the young prince engaged with Cinderella, +that he did not eat one morsel of the supper. + +Cinderella drew near her sisters, and frequently spoke to them; and in +her goodness of heart she offered them the delicacies which she had +received from the prince: but they did not know she was their sister. + +When Cinderella heard the clock strike three-quarters past eleven, she +made a low courtesy to the whole assembly and retired in haste. + +You see how fortune befriends the good-hearted, and even out of such +unpromising material as a pumpkin and mice, can make a coach and six, +with which to honor her worthy favorite. So Cinderella goes to the ball; +but to teach her to be diligent and faithful in her engagements, her +faery godmother enjoins upon her that she return home at twelve. Native +beauty and grace attract the princely heart; and while the king's son +pays no heed to her pretentious sisters, he is all grace and +condescension to little Cinderella. Obedient to her engagement with her +godmother, she returns in all the splendor and honor of the coach and +six. + +On reaching home, she found her godmother; and after thanking her for +the treat she had enjoyed, she ventured to express a wish to return to +the ball on the following evening, as the prince had requested her to +do. + +She was still relating to her godmother all that had happened at court, +when her two sisters knocked at the door. Cinderella went and let them +in, pretending to yawn and stretch herself, and rub her eyes, and +saying, "How late you are!" just as if she was waked up out of a nap, +though, truth to say, she had never felt less disposed to sleep in her +life. "If you had been to the ball," said one of the sisters, "you would +not have thought it late. There came the most beautiful princess ever +seen, who loaded us with polite attentions, and gave us oranges and +citrons." + +Cinderella could scarcely contain her delight, and inquired the name of +the princess. But they replied that nobody knew her name, and that the +king's son was in great trouble about her, and would give the world to +know who she could be. "Is she, then, so very beautiful?" said +Cinderella, smiling. "Oh, my! how I should like to see her! Oh, do, my +Lady Javotte, lend me the yellow dress you wear every day, that I may go +to the ball and have a peep at this wonderful princess." "A likely +story, indeed!" cried Javotte, tossing her head disdainfully, "that I +should lend my clothes to a dirty Cinderella like you!" + +Cinderella expected to be refused, and was not sorry for it, as she +would have been puzzled what to do, had her sister really lent her the +dress she begged to have. + +On the following evening the sisters again went to the court ball, and +so did Cinderella, dressed even more magnificently than before. The +king's son never left her side, and kept paying her the most flattering +attentions. The young lady was nothing loth to listen to him; so it came +to pass that she forgot her godmother's injunctions, and, indeed, lost +her reckoning so completely, that before she deemed it could be eleven +o'clock, she was startled at hearing the first stroke of midnight. She +rose hastily, and flew away like a startled fawn. The prince attempted +to follow her, but she was too swift for him; only, as she flew she +dropped one of her glass slippers, which he picked up very eagerly. +Cinderella reached home quite out of breath, without either coach or +footmen, and with only her shabby clothes on her back; nothing, in +short, remained of her recent magnificence, save a little glass slipper, +the fellow to the one she had lost. + +[Illustration: CINDERELLA DANCING WITH THE PRINCE IS ADMIRED FOR HER +GRACEFULNESS. THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE: SHE HAVING FORGOT HER +GOD-MOTHER'S INSTRUCTIONS, IS ALARMED, FLIES OUT OF THE BALL-ROOM--HER +GORGEOUS APPAREL IS CHANGED INTO THE DRESS OF A CINDER-WENCH, AND HER +SPLENDID EQUIPAGE INTO A PUMPKIN, RATS, MICE AND LIZARDS.] + +The sentinels at the palace gate were closely questioned as to whether +they had not seen a princess coming out; but they answered they had seen +no one except a shabbily dressed girl, who appeared to be a peasant +rather than a young lady. + +On this second night, as you have taken notice, dazzled by worldly show +and the pleasing flattery of her royal lover, Cinderella over-stays her +time, and is compelled to make her way back to her father's house on +foot and in rags--an everlasting lesson to all the pretty little +Cinderellas in the world to keep their word, and to act in good faith by +such as befriend them. Never mind--her heart is in the right place--she +is a charming good creature; and although virtue goes home in rags, it +will leave some token behind--some foot-print by which it can be known +and traced wherever it has once walked. We shall hear from that little +lost glass slipper again! + +[Illustration: CINDERELLA RETURNED SHABBILY DRESSED.] + +When the two sisters returned from the ball, Cinderella asked them +whether they had been well entertained; and whether the beautiful lady +was there? They replied, that she was; but that she had run away as soon +as midnight had struck, and so quickly as to drop one of her dainty +glass slippers, which the king's son had picked up, and was looking at +most fondly during the remainder of the ball; indeed, it seemed beyond a +doubt that he was deeply enamored of the beautiful creature to whom it +belonged. + +They spoke truly enough; for, a few days afterwards, the king's son +caused a proclamation to be made, by sound of trumpet all over the +kingdom, to the effect that he would marry her whose foot should be +found to fit the slipper exactly. So the slipper was first tried on by +all the princesses; then by all the duchesses; and next by all the +persons belonging to the court; but in vain. It was then carried to the +two sisters, who tried with all their might to force their feet into its +delicate proportions, but with no better success. Cinderella, who was +present, and recognized her slipper, now laughed, and said, "Suppose I +were to try?" Her sisters ridiculed such an idea; but the gentleman who +was appointed to try the slipper, having looked attentively at +Cinderella, and perceived how beautiful she was, said that it was but +fair she should do so, as he had orders to try it on every young maiden +in the kingdom. Accordingly, having requested Cinderella to sit down, +she no sooner put her little foot to the slipper, than she drew it on, +and it fitted like wax. The sisters were quite amazed; but their +astonishment increased tenfold when Cinderella drew the fellow slipper +out of her pocket, and put it on. Her godmother then made her +appearance; and, having touched Cinderella's clothes with her wand, made +them still more magnificent than those she had previously worn. + +[Illustration: THE HERALDS OF THE COURT ANNOUNCE THE PROCLAMATION THAT +THE PRINCE WOULD MARRY THE LADY WHOM THE GLASS SLIPPER FITTED. +CINDERELLA TRIES ON THE SLIPPER, WHICH FITS HER DELICATE FOOT, TO THE +GREAT ASTONISHMENT OF HER FAMILY.] + +Her two sisters now recognized her for the beautiful stranger they had +seen at the ball; and, falling at her feet, implored her forgiveness for +their unworthy treatment, and all the insults they had heaped upon her +head. Cinderella raised them, saying, as she embraced them, that she not +only forgave them with all her heart, but wished for their affection. +She was then taken to the palace of the young prince, in whose eyes she +appeared yet more lovely than before, and who married her shortly after. + +Cinderella, who was as good as she was beautiful, allowed her sisters to +lodge in the palace, and gave them in marriage, that same day, to two +lords belonging to the court. + +[Illustration: MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE AND CINDERELLA.] + +The amiable qualities of Cinderella were as conspicuous after as they +had been before marriage. + + + + + * * * * * + + +This series of FAIRY STORIES has for generations been listened to and +read by Children with an inexpressible delight, which other books have +failed to afford them. + +The extravagance of the Stories--the attractive manner of telling +them--the picturesque scenery described--the marvellous deeds +related--the reward of virtue and punishment of vice, upon principles +strictly in accordance with ethical laws, as applied to the formation of +character, render them peculiarly adapted to induce children to acquire +a love for reading, and to aid them to cultivate the affections, +sympathies, fancy, and imagination. + +The principle, that good examples only should be imitated, has been lost +sight of in the Pictorial embellishment of these standard Fairy Stories, +upon the assumption that indifferent pictures are good enough to give +first impressions of Art to Children. 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THWAITE + +ENGRAVED BY THE BEST ARTISTS. + + +VOL I. + +CINDERELLA + + + +1855 + + + + +[Illustration: Frontispiece] + + + + +CINDERELLA; + +Or, + +THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER. + + +There once lived a gentleman and his wife, who were the parents of a +lovely little daughter. + +When this child was only nine years of age, her mother fell sick. +Finding her death coming on, she called her child to her and said to +her, "My child, always be good; bear every thing that happens to you +with patience, and whatever evil and troubles you may suffer, you will +be happy in the end if you are so." Then the poor lady died, and her +daughter was full of great grief at the loss of a mother so good and +kind. + +The father too was unhappy, but he sought to get rid of his sorrow by +marrying another wife, and he looked out for some prudent lady who might +be a second mother to his child, and a companion to himself. His choice +fell on a widow lady, of a proud and tyrannical temper, who had two +daughters by a former marriage, both as haughty and bad-tempered as +their mother. No sooner was the wedding over, than the step-mother began +to show her bad temper. She could not bear her step-daughter's good +qualities, that only showed up her daughters' unamiable ones still more +obviously, and she accordingly compelled the poor girl to do all the +drudgery of the household. It was she who washed the dishes, and +scrubbed down the stairs, and polished the floors in my lady's chamber +and in those of the two pert misses, her daughters; and while the latter +slept on good feather beds in elegant rooms, furnished with full-length +looking-glasses, their sister lay in a wretched garret on an old straw +mattress. Yet the poor thing bore this ill treatment very meekly, and +did not dare complain to her father, who thought so much of his wife +that he would only have scolded her. + +When her work was done, she used to sit in the chimney-corner amongst +the cinders, which had caused the nickname of _Cinderella_ to be given +her by the family; yet, for all her shabby clothes, Cinderella was a +hundred times prettier than her sisters, let them be dressed ever so +magnificently. + +The poor little Cinder-wench! this harsh stepmother was a sore trial to +her; and how often, as she sate sadly by herself, did she feel that +there is no mother like our own, the dear parent whose flesh and blood +we are, and who bears all our little cares and sorrows tenderly as in +the apple of her eye! + +It happened that the king's son gave a ball, to which he invited all the +nobility; and, as our two young ladies made a great figure in the world, +they were included in the list of invitations. So they began to be very +busy choosing what head-dress and which gown would be the most becoming. +Here was fresh work for poor Cinderella: for it was she, forsooth, who +was to starch and get up their ruffles, and iron all their fine linen; +and nothing but dress was talked about for days together. "I," said the +eldest, "shall put on my red velvet dress, with my point-lace +trimmings." "And I," said the younger sister, "shall wear my usual +petticoat, but shall set it off with my gold brocaded train and my +circlet of diamonds." + +[Illustration: CINDERELLA DRESSING HER SISTER'S HAIR.] + +They sent for a clever tire-woman to prepare the double rows of quilling +for their caps, and they purchased a quantity of fashionably cut +patches. They called in Cinderella to take her advice, as she had such +good taste, and Cinderella not only advised them well, but offered to +dress their hair, which they were pleased to accept. While she was thus +busied, the sisters said to her: "And pray, Cinderella, would you like +to go to the ball?" + +"Nay, you are mocking me," replied the poor girl; "it is not for such as +I to go to balls." "True enough," rejoined they; "folks would laugh to +see a Cinderella at a court ball." + +These two step-sisters were very cruel to Cinderella, and ill-used her +much. Ah! what sweet friends are our own born sisters!--there can be no +substitutes like them in the whole wide world. + +Any other but Cinderella would have dressed their hair awry to punish +them for their impertinence, but she was so good-natured that she +dressed them most becomingly. Although they disdained her, and while +they would themselves make a great figure in the world, sought to +degrade and lower her, see how the lovely disposition of Cinderella +shines out. Although she was not allowed to go to the ball of the king's +son, she not only advised them well how they could array themselves to +appear to the best advantage, but she even--what greatness of heart to +do that!--with her own hands dresses their hair, and in the most +becoming manner her delicate taste can suggest. + +The two sisters were so delighted, that they scarcely ate a morsel for a +couple of days. They spent their whole time before a looking-glass, and +they would be laced so tight, to make their waists as slender as +possible, that more than a dozen stay-laces were broken in the attempt. + +The long-wished-for evening came at last, and these proud misses stepped +into the 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 +degradation. She continued sobbing in the corner of the chimney, until a +rapping at the kitchen-door roused her, and she got up to see what had +occasioned, it. She found a little old beggar-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 like to step in and warm yourself, you can do so, and welcome." +"Thank you, my dear," said the old woman in a feeble, croaking voice. +She then hobbled in and took her seat by the fire. + +"Hey! dearee me! what are all these tears, my child?" said the old +woman. And then Cinderella told the old woman all her griefs; how her +sisters had gone to the ball, and how she wished to go too, but had no +clothes, or means to do so. + +"But you _shall_ go, my darling," said the old woman, "or I am not +Queen of the Faëries or your Godmother. Dry up your tears like a good +god-daughter and do as I bid you, and you shall have clothes and horses +finer than any one." + +Cinderella had heard her father often talk of her godmother, and tell +her that she was one of those good faëries who protect children. Her +spirits revived, and she wiped away her tears. + +The faëry took Cinderella by the hand, and said, "Now, my dear, go into +the garden and fetch me a pumpkin." Cinderella bounded lightly to +execute her commands, and returned with one of the finest and largest +pumpkins she could meet with. It was as big as a beer barrel, and +Cinderella trundled it into the kitchen, wondering what her godmother +would do with it. Her godmother took the pumpkin, and scooped out the +inside of it, leaving nothing but rind; she then struck it with her +wand, and it instantly became one of the most elegant gilt carriages +ever seen. + +She next sent Cinderella into the pantry for the mouse-trap, bidding her +bring six little mice alive which she would find in the trap. Cinderella +hastened to the pantry, and there found the mice as the faëry had said, +which she brought to the old lady, who told her to lift up the door of +the trap but a little way and very gently, so that only one of the mice +might go out at a time. + +Cinderella raised the mouse-trap door, and as the mice came out one by +one, the old woman touched them with her wand, and transformed them into +fine prancing dapple-gray carriage horses with long manes and tails, +which were tied up with light-blue ribands. + +"Now, my dear good child," said the faëry, "here you have a coach and +horses, much handsomer than your sisters', to say the least of them; but +as we have neither a postilion nor a coachman to take care of them, run +quickly to the stable, where the rat-trap is placed, and bring it to +me." + +Cinderella was full of joy, and did not lose a moment; and soon returned +with the trap, in which there were two fine large rats. These, too, were +touched with the wand, and immediately the one was changed into a smart +postilion, and the other into a jolly-looking coachman in full finery. + +Her godmother then said, "My dear Cinderella, you must go to the garden +again before I can complete your equipage; when you get there, keep to +the right side, and close to the wall you will see the watering-pot +standing; look behind it, and there you will find six lizards, which you +must bring to me immediately." + +Cinderella hastened to the garden as she was desired, and found the six +lizards, which she put into her apron and brought to the faëry. Another +touch of the wonderful wand soon converted them into six spruce footmen +in dashing liveries, with powdered hair and pig-tails, three-cornered +cocked hats and gold-headed canes, who immediately jumped up behind the +carriage as nimbly as if they had been footmen and nothing else all +their lives. + +The coachman and postilion having likewise taken their places, the faëry +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, added, "but how can I make my appearance among so many +finely-dressed people in these mean-looking clothes?" + +"Give yourself no uneasiness about that, my dear; the most laborious +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 old woman, assuming her character of Queen of the +Faëries, touched Cinderella with the magic wand, and her clothes were +instantly changed into a most magnificent ball dress, ornamented with +the most costly jewels. The faëry took from her pocket a beautiful pair +of elastic glass slippers, which she caused Cinderella to put on, and +then desired her to get into the carriage with all expedition, as the +ball had already commenced. + +Two footmen opened the carriage door, and assisted the now beautifully +dressed Cinderella into it. Her godmother, before she took leave, +strictly charged her, on no account whatever to stay at the ball after +the clock had struck twelve; and then added, that if she stopped but a +single moment beyond that time, her fine coach, horses, coachman, +postilion, and footmen, and fine apparel, would all return to their +original shapes of pumpkin, mice, rats, lizards, and mean-looking +clothes. + +Cinderella promised faithfully to attend to every thing that the faëry +had mentioned; and then, quite overjoyed, gave the direction to the +footman, who bawled out in a loud and commanding tone 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. + +[ILLUSTRATION: CINDERELLA'S ARRIVAL AT THE PALACE IN HER ELEGANT GILT +CARRIAGE, WHICH ATTRACTS GENERAL NOTICE AS IT DRIVES UP TO THE MARBLE +PORTICO; OF WHICH INFORMATION IS COMMUNICATED TO THE PRINCE, WHO HASTENS +TO THE DOOR AND WELCOMES CINDERELLA, HANDS HER OUT OF THE CARRIAGE, AND +GRACEFULLY LEADS HER INTO THE PALACE, WHERE THE NOBLES WELCOME HER AS A +PRINCESS.] + +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. +Information was quickly taken to the king's son, that a beautiful young +lady, evidently some princess, was in waiting. His Royal Highness +hastened to the door, welcomed Cinderella, and handed her out of the +carriage. He then led her gracefully into the ball-room, and introduced +her to his father, the king. The moment she appeared, all conversation +was hushed, the violins ceased playing, and the dancing stopped short, +so great was the sensation produced by the stranger's beauty. A confused +murmur of admiration fluttered through the crowd, and each was fain to +exclaim, "How surpassingly lovely she is!" The ladies were all busy +examining her head-dress and her clothes, in order to get similar ones +the very next day, if, indeed, they could meet with stuffs of such rich +patterns, and find workwomen clever enough to make them up. "What a +lovely creature! so fair!--so beautiful!--What a handsome figure!--how +elegantly she is dressed!" Even the prince's father, old as he was, +could not behold her with indifference, but wiped his eye-glass and used +it very much, and said very often to the queen, that he had never seen +so sweet a being. + +[Illustration: CINDERELLA IS PRESENTED BY THE PRINCE TO THE KING AND +QUEEN, WHO WELCOME HER WITH THE HONORS DUE TO A GREAT PRINCESS, AND IS +THEN LED INTO THE ROYAL BALL-ROOM.] + +The king's son handed Cinderella to one of the most distinguished seats +on the daïs at the top of the Hall, and begged she would allow him to +hand her some refreshments. Cinderella received them with great grace. +When this was over, the prince requested to have the honour of dancing +with her. Cinderella smiled consent; and the delighted prince +immediately led her out to the head of the dance, just about to +commence. The eyes of the whole company were fixed upon the beautiful +pair. + +The trumpets sounded and the music struck up, and the dance commenced; +but if Cinderella's beauty, elegant figure, and the splendor of her +dress, had before drawn the attention of the whole room, the +astonishment at her dancing was still greater. + +Gracefulness seemed to play in all her motions; the airy lightness with +which she floated along--as buoyant as thistle-down--drew forth a +general murmur of admiration. The hall rang with the loudest +acclamations of applause, and the company, all in one voice, pronounced +her the most elegant creature that had ever been seen. And this was the +little girl who had passed a great part of her life in the kitchen, and +had always been called a "Cinder-wench." + +When the dance was ended, a magnificent feast was served up, consisting +of all delicacies: so much was the young prince engaged with Cinderella, +that he did not eat one morsel of the supper. + +Cinderella drew near her sisters, and frequently spoke to them; and in +her goodness of heart she offered them the delicacies which she had +received from the prince: but they did not know she was their sister. + +When Cinderella heard the clock strike three-quarters past eleven, she +made a low courtesy to the whole assembly and retired in haste. + +You see how fortune befriends the good-hearted, and even out of such +unpromising material as a pumpkin and mice, can make a coach and six, +with which to honor her worthy favorite. So Cinderella goes to the ball; +but to teach her to be diligent and faithful in her engagements, her +faëry godmother enjoins upon her that she return home at twelve. Native +beauty and grace attract the princely heart; and while the king's son +pays no heed to her pretentious sisters, he is all grace and +condescension to little Cinderella. Obedient to her engagement with her +godmother, she returns in all the splendor and honor of the coach and +six. + +On reaching home, she found her godmother; and after thanking her for +the treat she had enjoyed, she ventured to express a wish to return to +the ball on the following evening, as the prince had requested her to +do. + +She was still relating to her godmother all that had happened at court, +when her two sisters knocked at the door. Cinderella went and let them +in, pretending to yawn and stretch herself, and rub her eyes, and +saying, "How late you are!" just as if she was waked up out of a nap, +though, truth to say, she had never felt less disposed to sleep in her +life. "If you had been to the ball," said one of the sisters, "you would +not have thought it late. There came the most beautiful princess ever +seen, who loaded us with polite attentions, and gave us oranges and +citrons." + +Cinderella could scarcely contain her delight, and inquired the name of +the princess. But they replied that nobody knew her name, and that the +king's son was in great trouble about her, and would give the world to +know who she could be. "Is she, then, so very beautiful?" said +Cinderella, smiling. "Oh, my! how I should like to see her! Oh, do, my +Lady Javotte, lend me the yellow dress you wear every day, that I may go +to the ball and have a peep at this wonderful princess." "A likely +story, indeed!" cried Javotte, tossing her head disdainfully, "that I +should lend my clothes to a dirty Cinderella like you!" + +Cinderella expected to be refused, and was not sorry for it, as she +would have been puzzled what to do, had her sister really lent her the +dress she begged to have. + +On the following evening the sisters again went to the court ball, and +so did Cinderella, dressed even more magnificently than before. The +king's son never left her side, and kept paying her the most flattering +attentions. The young lady was nothing loth to listen to him; so it came +to pass that she forgot her godmother's injunctions, and, indeed, lost +her reckoning so completely, that before she deemed it could be eleven +o'clock, she was startled at hearing the first stroke of midnight. She +rose hastily, and flew away like a startled fawn. The prince attempted +to follow her, but she was too swift for him; only, as she flew she +dropped one of her glass slippers, which he picked up very eagerly. +Cinderella reached home quite out of breath, without either coach or +footmen, and with only her shabby clothes on her back; nothing, in +short, remained of her recent magnificence, save a little glass slipper, +the fellow to the one she had lost. + +[Illustration: CINDERELLA DANCING WITH THE PRINCE IS ADMIRED FOR HER +GRACEFULNESS. THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE: SHE HAVING FORGOT HER +GOD-MOTHER'S INSTRUCTIONS, IS ALARMED, FLIES OUT OF THE BALL-ROOM--HER +GORGEOUS APPAREL IS CHANGED INTO THE DRESS OF A CINDER-WENCH, AND HER +SPLENDID EQUIPAGE INTO A PUMPKIN, RATS, MICE AND LIZARDS.] + +The sentinels at the palace gate were closely questioned as to whether +they had not seen a princess coming out; but they answered they had seen +no one except a shabbily dressed girl, who appeared to be a peasant +rather than a young lady. + +On this second night, as you have taken notice, dazzled by worldly show +and the pleasing flattery of her royal lover, Cinderella over-stays her +time, and is compelled to make her way back to her father's house on +foot and in rags--an everlasting lesson to all the pretty little +Cinderellas in the world to keep their word, and to act in good faith by +such as befriend them. Never mind--her heart is in the right place--she +is a charming good creature; and although virtue goes home in rags, it +will leave some token behind--some foot-print by which it can be known +and traced wherever it has once walked. We shall hear from that little +lost glass slipper again! + +[Illustration: CINDERELLA RETURNED SHABBILY DRESSED.] + +When the two sisters returned from the ball, Cinderella asked them +whether they had been well entertained; and whether the beautiful lady +was there? They replied, that she was; but that she had run away as soon +as midnight had struck, and so quickly as to drop one of her dainty +glass slippers, which the king's son had picked up, and was looking at +most fondly during the remainder of the ball; indeed, it seemed beyond a +doubt that he was deeply enamored of the beautiful creature to whom it +belonged. + +They spoke truly enough; for, a few days afterwards, the king's son +caused a proclamation to be made, by sound of trumpet all over the +kingdom, to the effect that he would marry her whose foot should be +found to fit the slipper exactly. So the slipper was first tried on by +all the princesses; then by all the duchesses; and next by all the +persons belonging to the court; but in vain. It was then carried to the +two sisters, who tried with all their might to force their feet into its +delicate proportions, but with no better success. Cinderella, who was +present, and recognized her slipper, now laughed, and said, "Suppose I +were to try?" Her sisters ridiculed such an idea; but the gentleman who +was appointed to try the slipper, having looked attentively at +Cinderella, and perceived how beautiful she was, said that it was but +fair she should do so, as he had orders to try it on every young maiden +in the kingdom. Accordingly, having requested Cinderella to sit down, +she no sooner put her little foot to the slipper, than she drew it on, +and it fitted like wax. The sisters were quite amazed; but their +astonishment increased tenfold when Cinderella drew the fellow slipper +out of her pocket, and put it on. Her godmother then made her +appearance; and, having touched Cinderella's clothes with her wand, made +them still more magnificent than those she had previously worn. + +[Illustration: THE HERALDS OF THE COURT ANNOUNCE THE PROCLAMATION THAT +THE PRINCE WOULD MARRY THE LADY WHOM THE GLASS SLIPPER FITTED. +CINDERELLA TRIES ON THE SLIPPER, WHICH FITS HER DELICATE FOOT, TO THE +GREAT ASTONISHMENT OF HER FAMILY.] + +Her two sisters now recognized her for the beautiful stranger they had +seen at the ball; and, falling at her feet, implored her forgiveness for +their unworthy treatment, and all the insults they had heaped upon her +head. Cinderella raised them, saying, as she embraced them, that she not +only forgave them with all her heart, but wished for their affection. +She was then taken to the palace of the young prince, in whose eyes she +appeared yet more lovely than before, and who married her shortly after. + +Cinderella, who was as good as she was beautiful, allowed her sisters to +lodge in the palace, and gave them in marriage, that same day, to two +lords belonging to the court. + +[Illustration: MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE AND CINDERELLA.] + +The amiable qualities of Cinderella were as conspicuous after as they +had been before marriage. + + + + + * * * * * + + +This series of FAIRY STORIES has for generations been listened to and +read by Children with an inexpressible delight, which other books have +failed to afford them. + +The extravagance of the Stories--the attractive manner of telling +them--the picturesque scenery described--the marvellous deeds +related--the reward of virtue and punishment of vice, upon principles +strictly in accordance with ethical laws, as applied to the formation of +character, render them peculiarly adapted to induce children to acquire +a love for reading, and to aid them to cultivate the affections, +sympathies, fancy, and imagination. + +The principle, that good examples only should be imitated, has been lost +sight of in the Pictorial embellishment of these standard Fairy Stories, +upon the assumption that indifferent pictures are good enough to give +first impressions of Art to Children. 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Hewet + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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: Cinderella + +Author: Henry W. Hewet + +Release Date: January 25, 2004 [EBook #10830] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CINDERELLA *** + + + + +Produced by Internet Archive; University of Florida, Children, Sandra +Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. + + + + + + +</pre> + +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/title.jpg"><img src= +"images/titlesm.jpg" border="0" alt="Title Page"></a></div> +<br> +<br> +<h1>HEWET'S<br> +HOUSEHOLD STORIES<br> +FOR LITTLE FOLKS</h1> +<br> +<h3>ILLUSTRATED<br> +<br> +W. H. THWAITE<br> +<br> +ENGRAVED BY THE BEST ARTISTS.</h3> +<br> +<h1>VOL I.<br> +<br> +CINDERELLA</h1> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<h3>D. Appleton & Company<br> +<br> +1855</h3> +<p> </p> +<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/001.jpg"><img src= +"images/001sm.jpg" border="0" alt="Frontispiece"></a></div> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<div class="figleft-T"><a href="images/008-t.jpg" ><img src= +"images/008-t.jpg" border="0" alt="T"></a></div> +<p class="center"><b>CINDERELLA;</b><br><br> +Or,<br><br> +THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER.</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p>HERE once lived a gentleman and his wife, who were the parents +of a lovely little daughter.</p> +<p>When this child was only nine years of age, her mother fell +sick. Finding her death coming on, she called her child to her and +said to her, "My child, always be good; bear every thing that +happens to you with patience, and whatever evil and troubles you +may suffer, you will be happy in the end if you are so." Then the +poor lady died, and her daughter was full of great grief at the +loss of a mother so good and kind.</p> +<p>The father too was unhappy, but he sought to get rid of his +sorrow by marrying another wife, and he looked out for some prudent +lady who might be a second mother to his child, and a companion to +himself. His choice fell on a widow lady, of a proud and tyrannical +temper, who had two daughters by a former marriage, both as haughty +and bad-tempered as their mother. No sooner was the wedding over, +than the step-mother began to show her bad temper. She could not +bear her step-daughter's good qualities, that only showed up her +daughters' unamiable ones still more obviously, and she accordingly +compelled the poor girl to do all the drudgery of the household. It +was she who washed the dishes, and scrubbed down the stairs, and +polished the floors in my lady's chamber and in those of the two +pert misses, her daughters; and while the latter slept on good +feather beds in elegant rooms, furnished with full-length +looking-glasses, their sister lay in a wretched garret on an old +straw mattress. Yet the poor thing bore this ill treatment very +meekly, and did not dare complain to her father, who thought so +much of his wife that he would only have scolded her.</p> +<div class="figcenter"><a href= +"images/008.jpg"><img src="images/008sm.jpg" border="0" alt= +"" /></a> +</div> +<p>When her work was done, she used to sit in the chimney-corner +amongst the cinders, which had caused the nickname of +<i>Cinderella</i> to be given her by the family; yet, for all her +shabby clothes, Cinderella was a hundred times prettier than her +sisters, let them be dressed ever so magnificently.</p> +<p>The poor little Cinder-wench! this harsh stepmother was a sore +trial to her; and how often, as she sate sadly by herself, did she +feel that there is no mother like our own, the dear parent whose +flesh and blood we are, and who bears all our little cares and +sorrows tenderly as in the apple of her eye!</p> +<p>It happened that the king's son gave a ball, to which he invited +all the nobility; and, as our two young ladies made a great figure +in the world, they were included in the list of invitations. So +they began to be very busy choosing what head-dress and which gown +would be the most becoming. Here was fresh work for poor +Cinderella: for it was she, forsooth, who was to starch and get up +their ruffles, and iron all their fine linen; and nothing but dress +was talked about for days together. "I," said the eldest, "shall +put on my red velvet dress, with my point-lace trimmings." "And I," +said the younger sister, "shall wear my usual petticoat, but shall +set it off with my gold brocaded train and my circlet of +diamonds."</p> +<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/002.jpg"><img src= +"images/002.jpg" border="0" alt="Cinderella Dressing Her Sister's Hair."></a> +<h5>CINDERELLA DRESSING HER SISTER'S HAIR.</h5> +</div> +<p>They sent for a clever tire-woman to prepare the double rows of +quilling for their caps, and they purchased a quantity of +fashionably cut patches. They called in Cinderella to take her +advice, as she had such good taste, and Cinderella not only advised +them well, but offered to dress their hair, which they were pleased +to accept. While she was thus busied, the sisters said to her: "And +pray, Cinderella, would you like to go to the ball?"</p> +<p>"Nay, you are mocking me," replied the poor girl; "it is not for +such as I to go to balls." "True enough," rejoined they; "folks +would laugh to see a Cinderella at a court ball."</p> +<p>These two step-sisters were very cruel to Cinderella, and +ill-used her much. Ah! what sweet friends are our own born +sisters!—there can be no substitutes like them in the whole +wide world.</p> +<p>Any other but Cinderella would have dressed their hair awry to +punish them for their impertinence, but she was so good-natured +that she dressed them most becomingly. Although they disdained her, +and while they would themselves make a great figure in the world, +sought to degrade and lower her, see how the lovely disposition of +Cinderella shines out. Although she was not allowed to go to the +ball of the king's son, she not only advised them well how they +could array themselves to appear to the best advantage, but she +even—what greatness of heart to do that!—with her own +hands dresses their hair, and in the most becoming manner her +delicate taste can suggest.</p> +<p>The two sisters were so delighted, that they scarcely ate a +morsel for a couple of days. They spent their whole time before a +looking-glass, and they would be laced so tight, to make their +waists as slender as possible, that more than a dozen stay-laces +were broken in the attempt.</p> +<p>The long-wished-for evening came at last, and these proud misses +stepped into the 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 degradation. She continued sobbing in the corner +of the chimney, until a rapping at the kitchen-door roused her, and +she got up to see what had occasioned, it. She found a little old +beggar-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 like to step in and warm +yourself, you can do so, and welcome." "Thank you, my dear," said +the old woman in a feeble, croaking voice. She then hobbled in and +took her seat by the fire.</p> +<p>"Hey! dearee me! what are all these tears, my child?" said the +old woman. And then Cinderella told the old woman all her griefs; +how her sisters had gone to the ball, and how she wished to go too, +but had no clothes, or means to do so.</p> +<p>"But you <i>shall</i> go, my darling," said the old woman, "or I +am not Queen of the Faëries or your Godmother. Dry up your +tears like a good god-daughter and do as I bid you, and you shall +have clothes and horses finer than any one."</p> +<p>Cinderella had heard her father often talk of her godmother, and +tell her that she was one of those good faëries who protect +children. Her spirits revived, and she wiped away her tears.</p> +<p>The faëry took Cinderella by the hand, and said, "Now, my +dear, go into the garden and fetch me a pumpkin." Cinderella +bounded lightly to execute her commands, and returned with one of +the finest and largest pumpkins she could meet with. It was as big +as a beer barrel, and Cinderella trundled it into the kitchen, +wondering what her godmother would do with it. Her godmother took +the pumpkin, and scooped out the inside of it, leaving nothing but +rind; she then struck it with her wand, and it instantly became one +of the most elegant gilt carriages ever seen.</p> +<p>She next sent Cinderella into the pantry for the mouse-trap, +bidding her bring six little mice alive which she would find in the +trap. Cinderella hastened to the pantry, and there found the mice +as the faëry had said, which she brought to the old lady, who +told her to lift up the door of the trap but a little way and very +gently, so that only one of the mice might go out at a time.</p> +<p>Cinderella raised the mouse-trap door, and as the mice came out +one by one, the old woman touched them with her wand, and +transformed them into fine prancing dapple-gray carriage horses +with long manes and tails, which were tied up with light-blue +ribands.</p> +<p>"Now, my dear good child," said the faëry, "here you have a +coach and horses, much handsomer than your sisters', to say the +least of them; but as we have neither a postilion nor a coachman to +take care of them, run quickly to the stable, where the rat-trap is +placed, and bring it to me."</p> +<p>Cinderella was full of joy, and did not lose a moment; and soon +returned with the trap, in which there were two fine large rats. +These, too, were touched with the wand, and immediately the one was +changed into a smart postilion, and the other into a jolly-looking +coachman in full finery.</p> +<p>Her godmother then said, "My dear Cinderella, you must go to the +garden again before I can complete your equipage; when you get +there, keep to the right side, and close to the wall you will see +the watering-pot standing; look behind it, and there you will find +six lizards, which you must bring to me immediately."</p> +<p>Cinderella hastened to the garden as she was desired, and found +the six lizards, which she put into her apron and brought to the +faëry. Another touch of the wonderful wand soon converted them +into six spruce footmen in dashing liveries, with powdered hair and +pig-tails, three-cornered cocked hats and gold-headed canes, who +immediately jumped up behind the carriage as nimbly as if they had +been footmen and nothing else all their lives.</p> +<p>The coachman and postilion having likewise taken their places, +the faëry 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?"</p> +<p>"O yes, dear godmother," replied Cinderella; and then, with a +good deal of hesitation, added, "but how can I make my appearance +among so many finely-dressed people in these mean-looking +clothes?"</p> +<p>"Give yourself no uneasiness about that, my dear; the most +laborious part of our task is already accomplished, and it will be +hard if I cannot make your dress correspond with your coach and +servants."</p> +<p>On saying this, the old woman, assuming her character of Queen +of the Faëries, touched Cinderella with the magic wand, and +her clothes were instantly changed into a most magnificent ball +dress, ornamented with the most costly jewels. The faëry took +from her pocket a beautiful pair of elastic glass slippers, which +she caused Cinderella to put on, and then desired her to get into +the carriage with all expedition, as the ball had already +commenced.</p> +<p>Two footmen opened the carriage door, and assisted the now +beautifully dressed Cinderella into it. Her godmother, before she +took leave, strictly charged her, on no account whatever to stay at +the ball after the clock had struck twelve; and then added, that if +she stopped but a single moment beyond that time, her fine coach, +horses, coachman, postilion, and footmen, and fine apparel, would +all return to their original shapes of pumpkin, mice, rats, +lizards, and mean-looking clothes.</p> +<p>Cinderella promised faithfully to attend to every thing that the +faëry had mentioned; and then, quite overjoyed, gave the +direction to the footman, who bawled out in a loud and commanding +tone 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.</p> +<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/016-1.jpg"><img +src="images/016-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Cinderella's Arrival At The +Palace In Her Elegant Gilt Carriage, Which Attracts General Notice +As It Drives Up To The Marble Portico;"></a></div> +<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/016-2.jpg"><img +src="images/016-2.jpg" border="0" alt= +"Of Which Information Is Communicated To The Prince, Who Hastens To +The Door And Welcomes Cinderella, Hands Her Out Of The Carriage, And +Gracefully Leads Her Into The Palace, Where The Nobles Welcome Her As +A Princess."></a></div> +<h5>CINDERELLA'S ARRIVAL AT THE PALACE IN HER ELEGANT GILT +CARRIAGE, WHICH ATTRACTS GENERAL NOTICE AS IT DRIVES UP TO THE +MARBLE PORTICO; OF WHICH INFORMATION IS COMMUNICATED TO THE PRINCE, +WHO HASTENS TO THE DOOR AND WELCOMES CINDERELLA, HANDS HER OUT OF +THE CARRIAGE, AND GRACEFULLY LEADS HER INTO THE PALACE, WHERE THE +NOBLES WELCOME HER AS A PRINCESS.</h5> +<p>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. Information was quickly taken to the king's son, that a +beautiful young lady, evidently some princess, was in waiting. His +Royal Highness hastened to the door, welcomed Cinderella, and +handed her out of the carriage. He then led her gracefully into the +ball-room, and introduced her to his father, the king. The moment +she appeared, all conversation was hushed, the violins ceased +playing, and the dancing stopped short, so great was the sensation +produced by the stranger's beauty. A confused murmur of admiration +fluttered through the crowd, and each was fain to exclaim, "How +surpassingly lovely she is!" The ladies were all busy examining her +head-dress and her clothes, in order to get similar ones the very +next day, if, indeed, they could meet with stuffs of such rich +patterns, and find workwomen clever enough to make them up. "What a +lovely creature! so fair!—so beautiful!—What a handsome +figure!—how elegantly she is dressed!" Even the prince's +father, old as he was, could not behold her with indifference, but +wiped his eye-glass and used it very much, and said very often to +the queen, that he had never seen so sweet a being.</p> +<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/020-1.jpg"> +<img src="images/020-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Cinderella Is Presented +By The Prince To The King And Queen, Who Welcome Her With The Honors +Due To A Great Princess,"></a></div> +<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/020-2.jpg"><img src="images/020-2.jpg" +border="0" alt="And Is Then Led Into The Royal Ball-Room."></a></div> +<h5>CINDERELLA IS PRESENTED BY THE PRINCE TO THE KING AND QUEEN, +WHO WELCOME HER WITH THE HONORS DUE TO A GREAT PRINCESS, AND IS +THEN LED INTO THE ROYAL BALL-ROOM.</h5> +<p>The king's son handed Cinderella to one of the most +distinguished seats on the daïs at the top of the Hall, and +begged she would allow him to hand her some refreshments. +Cinderella received them with great grace. When this was over, the +prince requested to have the honour of dancing with her. Cinderella +smiled consent; and the delighted prince immediately led her out to +the head of the dance, just about to commence. The eyes of the +whole company were fixed upon the beautiful pair.</p> +<p>The trumpets sounded and the music struck up, and the dance +commenced; but if Cinderella's beauty, elegant figure, and the +splendor of her dress, had before drawn the attention of the whole +room, the astonishment at her dancing was still greater.</p> +<p>Gracefulness seemed to play in all her motions; the airy +lightness with which she floated along—as buoyant as +thistle-down—drew forth a general murmur of admiration. The +hall rang with the loudest acclamations of applause, and the +company, all in one voice, pronounced her the most elegant creature +that had ever been seen. And this was the little girl who had +passed a great part of her life in the kitchen, and had always been +called a "Cinder-wench."</p> +<p>When the dance was ended, a magnificent feast was served up, +consisting of all delicacies: so much was the young prince engaged +with Cinderella, that he did not eat one morsel of the supper.</p> +<p>Cinderella drew near her sisters, and frequently spoke to them; +and in her goodness of heart she offered them the delicacies which +she had received from the prince: but they did not know she was +their sister.</p> +<p>When Cinderella heard the clock strike three-quarters past +eleven, she made a low courtesy to the whole assembly and retired +in haste.</p> +<p>You see how fortune befriends the good-hearted, and even out of +such unpromising material as a pumpkin and mice, can make a coach +and six, with which to honor her worthy favorite. So Cinderella +goes to the ball; but to teach her to be diligent and faithful in +her engagements, her faëry godmother enjoins upon her that she +return home at twelve. Native beauty and grace attract the princely +heart; and while the king's son pays no heed to her pretentious +sisters, he is all grace and condescension to little Cinderella. +Obedient to her engagement with her godmother, she returns in all +the splendor and honor of the coach and six.</p> +<p>On reaching home, she found her godmother; and after thanking +her for the treat she had enjoyed, she ventured to express a wish +to return to the ball on the following evening, as the prince had +requested her to do.</p> +<p>She was still relating to her godmother all that had happened at +court, when her two sisters knocked at the door. Cinderella went +and let them in, pretending to yawn and stretch herself, and rub +her eyes, and saying, "How late you are!" just as if she was waked +up out of a nap, though, truth to say, she had never felt less +disposed to sleep in her life. "If you had been to the ball," said +one of the sisters, "you would not have thought it late. There came +the most beautiful princess ever seen, who loaded us with polite +attentions, and gave us oranges and citrons."</p> +<p>Cinderella could scarcely contain her delight, and inquired the +name of the princess. But they replied that nobody knew her name, +and that the king's son was in great trouble about her, and would +give the world to know who she could be. "Is she, then, so very +beautiful?" said Cinderella, smiling. "Oh, my! how I should like to +see her! Oh, do, my Lady Javotte, lend me the yellow dress you wear +every day, that I may go to the ball and have a peep at this +wonderful princess." "A likely story, indeed!" cried Javotte, +tossing her head disdainfully, "that I should lend my clothes to a +dirty Cinderella like you!"</p> +<p>Cinderella expected to be refused, and was not sorry for it, as +she would have been puzzled what to do, had her sister really lent +her the dress she begged to have.</p> +<p>On the following evening the sisters again went to the court +ball, and so did Cinderella, dressed even more magnificently than +before. The king's son never left her side, and kept paying her the +most flattering attentions. The young lady was nothing loth to +listen to him; so it came to pass that she forgot her godmother's +injunctions, and, indeed, lost her reckoning so completely, that +before she deemed it could be eleven o'clock, she was startled at +hearing the first stroke of midnight. She rose hastily, and flew +away like a startled fawn. The prince attempted to follow her, but +she was too swift for him; only, as she flew she dropped one of her +glass slippers, which he picked up very eagerly. Cinderella reached +home quite out of breath, without either coach or footmen, and with +only her shabby clothes on her back; nothing, in short, remained of +her recent magnificence, save a little glass slipper, the fellow to +the one she had lost.</p> +<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/024-1.jpg"><img +src="images/024-1.jpg" border="0" alt= +"Cinderella Dancing With the Prince is Admired for Her Gracefulness. +The Clock Strikes Twelve: She Having Forgot Her God-mother's +Instructions, is Alarmed, Flies out of the Ball-room—"></a></div> +<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/024-2.jpg"><img +src="images/024-2.jpg" border="0" alt="Her Gorgeous Apparel is Changed +Into the Dress of a Cinder-wench, and Her Splendid Equipage Into a +Pumpkin, Rats, Mice and Lizards"></a></div> +<h5>CINDERELLA DANCING WITH THE PRINCE IS ADMIRED FOR HER +GRACEFULNESS. THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE: SHE HAVING FORGOT HER +GOD-MOTHER'S INSTRUCTIONS, IS ALARMED, FLIES OUT OF THE +BALL-ROOM--HER GORGEOUS APPAREL IS CHANGED INTO THE DRESS OF A +CINDER-WENCH, AND HER SPLENDID EQUIPAGE INTO A PUMPKIN, RATS, MICE +AND LIZARDS.</h5> +<p>The sentinels at the palace gate were closely questioned as to +whether they had not seen a princess coming out; but they answered +they had seen no one except a shabbily dressed girl, who appeared +to be a peasant rather than a young lady.</p> +<p>On this second night, as you have taken notice, dazzled by +worldly show and the pleasing flattery of her royal lover, +Cinderella over-stays her time, and is compelled to make her way +back to her father's house on foot and in rags—an everlasting +lesson to all the pretty little Cinderellas in the world to keep +their word, and to act in good faith by such as befriend them. +Never mind—her heart is in the right place—she is a +charming good creature; and although virtue goes home in rags, it +will leave some token behind—some foot-print by which it can +be known and traced wherever it has once walked. We shall hear from +that little lost glass slipper again!</p> +<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/033.jpg"><img +src="images/033.jpg" border="0" alt="Cinderella Returned Shabbily Dressed."> +</a></div> +<h5>CINDERELLA RETURNED SHABBILY DRESSED.</h5> +<p>When the two sisters returned from the ball, Cinderella asked +them whether they had been well entertained; and whether the +beautiful lady was there? They replied, that she was; but that she +had run away as soon as midnight had struck, and so quickly as to +drop one of her dainty glass slippers, which the king's son had +picked up, and was looking at most fondly during the remainder of +the ball; indeed, it seemed beyond a doubt that he was deeply +enamored of the beautiful creature to whom it belonged.</p> +<p>They spoke truly enough; for, a few days afterwards, the king's +son caused a proclamation to be made, by sound of trumpet all over +the kingdom, to the effect that he would marry her whose foot +should be found to fit the slipper exactly. So the slipper was +first tried on by all the princesses; then by all the duchesses; +and next by all the persons belonging to the court; but in vain. It +was then carried to the two sisters, who tried with all their might +to force their feet into its delicate proportions, but with no +better success. Cinderella, who was present, and recognized her +slipper, now laughed, and said, "Suppose I were to try?" Her +sisters ridiculed such an idea; but the gentleman who was appointed +to try the slipper, having looked attentively at Cinderella, and +perceived how beautiful she was, said that it was but fair she +should do so, as he had orders to try it on every young maiden in +the kingdom. Accordingly, having requested Cinderella to sit down, +she no sooner put her little foot to the slipper, than she drew it +on, and it fitted like wax. The sisters were quite amazed; but +their astonishment increased tenfold when Cinderella drew the +fellow slipper out of her pocket, and put it on. Her godmother then +made her appearance; and, having touched Cinderella's clothes with +her wand, made them still more magnificent than those she had +previously worn.</p> +<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/036-1.jpg"><img +src="images/036-1.jpg" border="0" alt= +"The Heralds of the Court Announce The Proclamation That The Prince +Would Marry the Lady Whom The Glass Slipper Fitted."></a></div> +<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/036-2.jpg"><img +src="images/036-2.jpg" border="0" alt= +"Cinderella Tries on the Slipper, Which Fits Her Delicate Foot, +to The Great Astonishment of Her Family."></a></div> +<h5>THE HERALDS OF THE COURT ANNOUNCE THE PROCLAMATION THAT THE +PRINCE WOULD MARRY THE LADY WHOM THE GLASS SLIPPER FITTED. +CINDERELLA TRIES ON THE SLIPPER, WHICH FITS HER DELICATE FOOT, TO +THE GREAT ASTONISHMENT OF HER FAMILY.</h5> +<p>Her two sisters now recognized her for the beautiful stranger +they had seen at the ball; and, falling at her feet, implored her +forgiveness for their unworthy treatment, and all the insults they +had heaped upon her head. Cinderella raised them, saying, as she +embraced them, that she not only forgave them with all her heart, +but wished for their affection. She was then taken to the palace of +the young prince, in whose eyes she appeared yet more lovely than +before, and who married her shortly after.</p> +<p>Cinderella, who was as good as she was beautiful, allowed her +sisters to lodge in the palace, and gave them in marriage, that +same day, to two lords belonging to the court.</p> +<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/039.jpg"><img +src="images/039.jpg" border="0" alt= +"Marriage of the Prince and Cinderella."></a></div> +<h5>MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE AND CINDERELLA.</h5> +<p>The amiable qualities of Cinderella were as conspicuous after as +they had been before marriage.</p> +<p> </p> +<hr class="full"> +<p> </p> +<div class="figleft"><a href="images/cvr_f.jpg"><img src= +"images/cvr_fsm.jpg" border="0" alt="Front Cover"></a></div> +<div class="figright"><a href="images/cvr_b.jpg"><img src= +"images/cvr_bsm.jpg" border="0" alt="Back Cover"></a></div> +<p>This series of FAIRY STORIES has for generations been listened +to and read by Children with an inexpressible delight, which other +books have failed to afford them.</p> +<p>The extravagance of the Stories—the attractive manner of +telling them—the picturesque scenery described—the +marvellous deeds related—the reward of virtue and punishment +of vice, upon principles strictly in accordance with ethical laws, +as applied to the formation of character, render them peculiarly +adapted to induce children to acquire a love for reading, and to +aid them to cultivate the affections, sympathies, fancy, and +imagination.</p> +<p>The principle, that good examples only should be imitated, has +been lost sight of in the Pictorial embellishment of these standard +Fairy Stories, upon the assumption that indifferent pictures are +good enough to give first impressions of Art to Children. If this +holds true then language and morals of a questionable cast will +subserve the same ends; but the fallacy of this dogma +notwithstanding, no one upon reflection will deny.</p> +<p>That this edition of these Stories may be more perfect than any +other extant, the publisher has embellished it with exquisite +specimens of high Pictorial Art, from which Children may derive +those correct ideas that will mature into the beautiful and +grand.</p> +<p> </p> +<hr class="full"> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Cinderella, by Henry W. 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Hewet + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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: Cinderella + +Author: Henry W. Hewet + +Release Date: January 25, 2004 [EBook #10830] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CINDERELLA *** + + + + +Produced by Internet Archive; University of Florida, Children, Sandra +Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. + + + + + +[Illustration] + + +HEWET'S + +HOUSEHOLD STORIES + +FOR LITTLE FOLKS + +ILLUSTRATED + +W. H. THWAITE + +ENGRAVED BY THE BEST ARTISTS. + + +VOL I. + +CINDERELLA + + + +1855 + + + + +[Illustration: Frontispiece] + + + + +CINDERELLA; + +Or, + +THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER. + + +There once lived a gentleman and his wife, who were the parents of a +lovely little daughter. + +When this child was only nine years of age, her mother fell sick. +Finding her death coming on, she called her child to her and said to +her, "My child, always be good; bear every thing that happens to you +with patience, and whatever evil and troubles you may suffer, you will +be happy in the end if you are so." Then the poor lady died, and her +daughter was full of great grief at the loss of a mother so good and +kind. + +The father too was unhappy, but he sought to get rid of his sorrow by +marrying another wife, and he looked out for some prudent lady who might +be a second mother to his child, and a companion to himself. His choice +fell on a widow lady, of a proud and tyrannical temper, who had two +daughters by a former marriage, both as haughty and bad-tempered as +their mother. No sooner was the wedding over, than the step-mother began +to show her bad temper. She could not bear her step-daughter's good +qualities, that only showed up her daughters' unamiable ones still more +obviously, and she accordingly compelled the poor girl to do all the +drudgery of the household. It was she who washed the dishes, and +scrubbed down the stairs, and polished the floors in my lady's chamber +and in those of the two pert misses, her daughters; and while the latter +slept on good feather beds in elegant rooms, furnished with full-length +looking-glasses, their sister lay in a wretched garret on an old straw +mattress. Yet the poor thing bore this ill treatment very meekly, and +did not dare complain to her father, who thought so much of his wife +that he would only have scolded her. + +When her work was done, she used to sit in the chimney-corner amongst +the cinders, which had caused the nickname of _Cinderella_ to be given +her by the family; yet, for all her shabby clothes, Cinderella was a +hundred times prettier than her sisters, let them be dressed ever so +magnificently. + +The poor little Cinder-wench! this harsh stepmother was a sore trial to +her; and how often, as she sate sadly by herself, did she feel that +there is no mother like our own, the dear parent whose flesh and blood +we are, and who bears all our little cares and sorrows tenderly as in +the apple of her eye! + +It happened that the king's son gave a ball, to which he invited all the +nobility; and, as our two young ladies made a great figure in the world, +they were included in the list of invitations. So they began to be very +busy choosing what head-dress and which gown would be the most becoming. +Here was fresh work for poor Cinderella: for it was she, forsooth, who +was to starch and get up their ruffles, and iron all their fine linen; +and nothing but dress was talked about for days together. "I," said the +eldest, "shall put on my red velvet dress, with my point-lace +trimmings." "And I," said the younger sister, "shall wear my usual +petticoat, but shall set it off with my gold brocaded train and my +circlet of diamonds." + +[Illustration: CINDERELLA DRESSING HER SISTER'S HAIR.] + +They sent for a clever tire-woman to prepare the double rows of quilling +for their caps, and they purchased a quantity of fashionably cut +patches. They called in Cinderella to take her advice, as she had such +good taste, and Cinderella not only advised them well, but offered to +dress their hair, which they were pleased to accept. While she was thus +busied, the sisters said to her: "And pray, Cinderella, would you like +to go to the ball?" + +"Nay, you are mocking me," replied the poor girl; "it is not for such as +I to go to balls." "True enough," rejoined they; "folks would laugh to +see a Cinderella at a court ball." + +These two step-sisters were very cruel to Cinderella, and ill-used her +much. Ah! what sweet friends are our own born sisters!--there can be no +substitutes like them in the whole wide world. + +Any other but Cinderella would have dressed their hair awry to punish +them for their impertinence, but she was so good-natured that she +dressed them most becomingly. Although they disdained her, and while +they would themselves make a great figure in the world, sought to +degrade and lower her, see how the lovely disposition of Cinderella +shines out. Although she was not allowed to go to the ball of the king's +son, she not only advised them well how they could array themselves to +appear to the best advantage, but she even--what greatness of heart to +do that!--with her own hands dresses their hair, and in the most +becoming manner her delicate taste can suggest. + +The two sisters were so delighted, that they scarcely ate a morsel for a +couple of days. They spent their whole time before a looking-glass, and +they would be laced so tight, to make their waists as slender as +possible, that more than a dozen stay-laces were broken in the attempt. + +The long-wished-for evening came at last, and these proud misses stepped +into the 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 +degradation. She continued sobbing in the corner of the chimney, until a +rapping at the kitchen-door roused her, and she got up to see what had +occasioned, it. She found a little old beggar-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 like to step in and warm yourself, you can do so, and welcome." +"Thank you, my dear," said the old woman in a feeble, croaking voice. +She then hobbled in and took her seat by the fire. + +"Hey! dearee me! what are all these tears, my child?" said the old +woman. And then Cinderella told the old woman all her griefs; how her +sisters had gone to the ball, and how she wished to go too, but had no +clothes, or means to do so. + +"But you _shall_ go, my darling," said the old woman, "or I am not +Queen of the Faeries or your Godmother. Dry up your tears like a good +god-daughter and do as I bid you, and you shall have clothes and horses +finer than any one." + +Cinderella had heard her father often talk of her godmother, and tell +her that she was one of those good faeries who protect children. Her +spirits revived, and she wiped away her tears. + +The faery took Cinderella by the hand, and said, "Now, my dear, go into +the garden and fetch me a pumpkin." Cinderella bounded lightly to +execute her commands, and returned with one of the finest and largest +pumpkins she could meet with. It was as big as a beer barrel, and +Cinderella trundled it into the kitchen, wondering what her godmother +would do with it. Her godmother took the pumpkin, and scooped out the +inside of it, leaving nothing but rind; she then struck it with her +wand, and it instantly became one of the most elegant gilt carriages +ever seen. + +She next sent Cinderella into the pantry for the mouse-trap, bidding her +bring six little mice alive which she would find in the trap. Cinderella +hastened to the pantry, and there found the mice as the faery had said, +which she brought to the old lady, who told her to lift up the door of +the trap but a little way and very gently, so that only one of the mice +might go out at a time. + +Cinderella raised the mouse-trap door, and as the mice came out one by +one, the old woman touched them with her wand, and transformed them into +fine prancing dapple-gray carriage horses with long manes and tails, +which were tied up with light-blue ribands. + +"Now, my dear good child," said the faery, "here you have a coach and +horses, much handsomer than your sisters', to say the least of them; but +as we have neither a postilion nor a coachman to take care of them, run +quickly to the stable, where the rat-trap is placed, and bring it to +me." + +Cinderella was full of joy, and did not lose a moment; and soon returned +with the trap, in which there were two fine large rats. These, too, were +touched with the wand, and immediately the one was changed into a smart +postilion, and the other into a jolly-looking coachman in full finery. + +Her godmother then said, "My dear Cinderella, you must go to the garden +again before I can complete your equipage; when you get there, keep to +the right side, and close to the wall you will see the watering-pot +standing; look behind it, and there you will find six lizards, which you +must bring to me immediately." + +Cinderella hastened to the garden as she was desired, and found the six +lizards, which she put into her apron and brought to the faery. Another +touch of the wonderful wand soon converted them into six spruce footmen +in dashing liveries, with powdered hair and pig-tails, three-cornered +cocked hats and gold-headed canes, who immediately jumped up behind the +carriage as nimbly as if they had been footmen and nothing else all +their lives. + +The coachman and postilion having likewise taken their places, the faery +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, added, "but how can I make my appearance among so many +finely-dressed people in these mean-looking clothes?" + +"Give yourself no uneasiness about that, my dear; the most laborious +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 old woman, assuming her character of Queen of the +Faeries, touched Cinderella with the magic wand, and her clothes were +instantly changed into a most magnificent ball dress, ornamented with +the most costly jewels. The faery took from her pocket a beautiful pair +of elastic glass slippers, which she caused Cinderella to put on, and +then desired her to get into the carriage with all expedition, as the +ball had already commenced. + +Two footmen opened the carriage door, and assisted the now beautifully +dressed Cinderella into it. Her godmother, before she took leave, +strictly charged her, on no account whatever to stay at the ball after +the clock had struck twelve; and then added, that if she stopped but a +single moment beyond that time, her fine coach, horses, coachman, +postilion, and footmen, and fine apparel, would all return to their +original shapes of pumpkin, mice, rats, lizards, and mean-looking +clothes. + +Cinderella promised faithfully to attend to every thing that the faery +had mentioned; and then, quite overjoyed, gave the direction to the +footman, who bawled out in a loud and commanding tone 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. + +[ILLUSTRATION: CINDERELLA'S ARRIVAL AT THE PALACE IN HER ELEGANT GILT +CARRIAGE, WHICH ATTRACTS GENERAL NOTICE AS IT DRIVES UP TO THE MARBLE +PORTICO; OF WHICH INFORMATION IS COMMUNICATED TO THE PRINCE, WHO HASTENS +TO THE DOOR AND WELCOMES CINDERELLA, HANDS HER OUT OF THE CARRIAGE, AND +GRACEFULLY LEADS HER INTO THE PALACE, WHERE THE NOBLES WELCOME HER AS A +PRINCESS.] + +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. +Information was quickly taken to the king's son, that a beautiful young +lady, evidently some princess, was in waiting. His Royal Highness +hastened to the door, welcomed Cinderella, and handed her out of the +carriage. He then led her gracefully into the ball-room, and introduced +her to his father, the king. The moment she appeared, all conversation +was hushed, the violins ceased playing, and the dancing stopped short, +so great was the sensation produced by the stranger's beauty. A confused +murmur of admiration fluttered through the crowd, and each was fain to +exclaim, "How surpassingly lovely she is!" The ladies were all busy +examining her head-dress and her clothes, in order to get similar ones +the very next day, if, indeed, they could meet with stuffs of such rich +patterns, and find workwomen clever enough to make them up. "What a +lovely creature! so fair!--so beautiful!--What a handsome figure!--how +elegantly she is dressed!" Even the prince's father, old as he was, +could not behold her with indifference, but wiped his eye-glass and used +it very much, and said very often to the queen, that he had never seen +so sweet a being. + +[Illustration: CINDERELLA IS PRESENTED BY THE PRINCE TO THE KING AND +QUEEN, WHO WELCOME HER WITH THE HONORS DUE TO A GREAT PRINCESS, AND IS +THEN LED INTO THE ROYAL BALL-ROOM.] + +The king's son handed Cinderella to one of the most distinguished seats +on the dais at the top of the Hall, and begged she would allow him to +hand her some refreshments. Cinderella received them with great grace. +When this was over, the prince requested to have the honour of dancing +with her. Cinderella smiled consent; and the delighted prince +immediately led her out to the head of the dance, just about to +commence. The eyes of the whole company were fixed upon the beautiful +pair. + +The trumpets sounded and the music struck up, and the dance commenced; +but if Cinderella's beauty, elegant figure, and the splendor of her +dress, had before drawn the attention of the whole room, the +astonishment at her dancing was still greater. + +Gracefulness seemed to play in all her motions; the airy lightness with +which she floated along--as buoyant as thistle-down--drew forth a +general murmur of admiration. The hall rang with the loudest +acclamations of applause, and the company, all in one voice, pronounced +her the most elegant creature that had ever been seen. And this was the +little girl who had passed a great part of her life in the kitchen, and +had always been called a "Cinder-wench." + +When the dance was ended, a magnificent feast was served up, consisting +of all delicacies: so much was the young prince engaged with Cinderella, +that he did not eat one morsel of the supper. + +Cinderella drew near her sisters, and frequently spoke to them; and in +her goodness of heart she offered them the delicacies which she had +received from the prince: but they did not know she was their sister. + +When Cinderella heard the clock strike three-quarters past eleven, she +made a low courtesy to the whole assembly and retired in haste. + +You see how fortune befriends the good-hearted, and even out of such +unpromising material as a pumpkin and mice, can make a coach and six, +with which to honor her worthy favorite. So Cinderella goes to the ball; +but to teach her to be diligent and faithful in her engagements, her +faery godmother enjoins upon her that she return home at twelve. Native +beauty and grace attract the princely heart; and while the king's son +pays no heed to her pretentious sisters, he is all grace and +condescension to little Cinderella. Obedient to her engagement with her +godmother, she returns in all the splendor and honor of the coach and +six. + +On reaching home, she found her godmother; and after thanking her for +the treat she had enjoyed, she ventured to express a wish to return to +the ball on the following evening, as the prince had requested her to +do. + +She was still relating to her godmother all that had happened at court, +when her two sisters knocked at the door. Cinderella went and let them +in, pretending to yawn and stretch herself, and rub her eyes, and +saying, "How late you are!" just as if she was waked up out of a nap, +though, truth to say, she had never felt less disposed to sleep in her +life. "If you had been to the ball," said one of the sisters, "you would +not have thought it late. There came the most beautiful princess ever +seen, who loaded us with polite attentions, and gave us oranges and +citrons." + +Cinderella could scarcely contain her delight, and inquired the name of +the princess. But they replied that nobody knew her name, and that the +king's son was in great trouble about her, and would give the world to +know who she could be. "Is she, then, so very beautiful?" said +Cinderella, smiling. "Oh, my! how I should like to see her! Oh, do, my +Lady Javotte, lend me the yellow dress you wear every day, that I may go +to the ball and have a peep at this wonderful princess." "A likely +story, indeed!" cried Javotte, tossing her head disdainfully, "that I +should lend my clothes to a dirty Cinderella like you!" + +Cinderella expected to be refused, and was not sorry for it, as she +would have been puzzled what to do, had her sister really lent her the +dress she begged to have. + +On the following evening the sisters again went to the court ball, and +so did Cinderella, dressed even more magnificently than before. The +king's son never left her side, and kept paying her the most flattering +attentions. The young lady was nothing loth to listen to him; so it came +to pass that she forgot her godmother's injunctions, and, indeed, lost +her reckoning so completely, that before she deemed it could be eleven +o'clock, she was startled at hearing the first stroke of midnight. She +rose hastily, and flew away like a startled fawn. The prince attempted +to follow her, but she was too swift for him; only, as she flew she +dropped one of her glass slippers, which he picked up very eagerly. +Cinderella reached home quite out of breath, without either coach or +footmen, and with only her shabby clothes on her back; nothing, in +short, remained of her recent magnificence, save a little glass slipper, +the fellow to the one she had lost. + +[Illustration: CINDERELLA DANCING WITH THE PRINCE IS ADMIRED FOR HER +GRACEFULNESS. THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE: SHE HAVING FORGOT HER +GOD-MOTHER'S INSTRUCTIONS, IS ALARMED, FLIES OUT OF THE BALL-ROOM--HER +GORGEOUS APPAREL IS CHANGED INTO THE DRESS OF A CINDER-WENCH, AND HER +SPLENDID EQUIPAGE INTO A PUMPKIN, RATS, MICE AND LIZARDS.] + +The sentinels at the palace gate were closely questioned as to whether +they had not seen a princess coming out; but they answered they had seen +no one except a shabbily dressed girl, who appeared to be a peasant +rather than a young lady. + +On this second night, as you have taken notice, dazzled by worldly show +and the pleasing flattery of her royal lover, Cinderella over-stays her +time, and is compelled to make her way back to her father's house on +foot and in rags--an everlasting lesson to all the pretty little +Cinderellas in the world to keep their word, and to act in good faith by +such as befriend them. Never mind--her heart is in the right place--she +is a charming good creature; and although virtue goes home in rags, it +will leave some token behind--some foot-print by which it can be known +and traced wherever it has once walked. We shall hear from that little +lost glass slipper again! + +[Illustration: CINDERELLA RETURNED SHABBILY DRESSED.] + +When the two sisters returned from the ball, Cinderella asked them +whether they had been well entertained; and whether the beautiful lady +was there? They replied, that she was; but that she had run away as soon +as midnight had struck, and so quickly as to drop one of her dainty +glass slippers, which the king's son had picked up, and was looking at +most fondly during the remainder of the ball; indeed, it seemed beyond a +doubt that he was deeply enamored of the beautiful creature to whom it +belonged. + +They spoke truly enough; for, a few days afterwards, the king's son +caused a proclamation to be made, by sound of trumpet all over the +kingdom, to the effect that he would marry her whose foot should be +found to fit the slipper exactly. So the slipper was first tried on by +all the princesses; then by all the duchesses; and next by all the +persons belonging to the court; but in vain. It was then carried to the +two sisters, who tried with all their might to force their feet into its +delicate proportions, but with no better success. Cinderella, who was +present, and recognized her slipper, now laughed, and said, "Suppose I +were to try?" Her sisters ridiculed such an idea; but the gentleman who +was appointed to try the slipper, having looked attentively at +Cinderella, and perceived how beautiful she was, said that it was but +fair she should do so, as he had orders to try it on every young maiden +in the kingdom. Accordingly, having requested Cinderella to sit down, +she no sooner put her little foot to the slipper, than she drew it on, +and it fitted like wax. The sisters were quite amazed; but their +astonishment increased tenfold when Cinderella drew the fellow slipper +out of her pocket, and put it on. Her godmother then made her +appearance; and, having touched Cinderella's clothes with her wand, made +them still more magnificent than those she had previously worn. + +[Illustration: THE HERALDS OF THE COURT ANNOUNCE THE PROCLAMATION THAT +THE PRINCE WOULD MARRY THE LADY WHOM THE GLASS SLIPPER FITTED. +CINDERELLA TRIES ON THE SLIPPER, WHICH FITS HER DELICATE FOOT, TO THE +GREAT ASTONISHMENT OF HER FAMILY.] + +Her two sisters now recognized her for the beautiful stranger they had +seen at the ball; and, falling at her feet, implored her forgiveness for +their unworthy treatment, and all the insults they had heaped upon her +head. Cinderella raised them, saying, as she embraced them, that she not +only forgave them with all her heart, but wished for their affection. +She was then taken to the palace of the young prince, in whose eyes she +appeared yet more lovely than before, and who married her shortly after. + +Cinderella, who was as good as she was beautiful, allowed her sisters to +lodge in the palace, and gave them in marriage, that same day, to two +lords belonging to the court. + +[Illustration: MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE AND CINDERELLA.] + +The amiable qualities of Cinderella were as conspicuous after as they +had been before marriage. + + + + + * * * * * + + +This series of FAIRY STORIES has for generations been listened to and +read by Children with an inexpressible delight, which other books have +failed to afford them. + +The extravagance of the Stories--the attractive manner of telling +them--the picturesque scenery described--the marvellous deeds +related--the reward of virtue and punishment of vice, upon principles +strictly in accordance with ethical laws, as applied to the formation of +character, render them peculiarly adapted to induce children to acquire +a love for reading, and to aid them to cultivate the affections, +sympathies, fancy, and imagination. + +The principle, that good examples only should be imitated, has been lost +sight of in the Pictorial embellishment of these standard Fairy Stories, +upon the assumption that indifferent pictures are good enough to give +first impressions of Art to Children. 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