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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 77727 ***
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: CINDERELLA]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  THIS
+  BOOK BELONGS
+  TO
+]
+
+[Illustration: The Children’s Red Books
+
+
+  VOL. I    { PETER RABBIT.
+            { DICK WHITTINGTON.
+
+  VOL. II   { LITTLE BLACK SAMBO.
+            { UNCLE TOM’S CABIN--TOPSY.
+
+  VOL. III  { THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS.
+            { MOTHER GOOSE RHYMES.
+
+  VOL. IV   { BLACK BEAUTY.
+            { THE LITTLE LAME PRINCE.
+
+  VOL. V    { RAB AND HIS FRIENDS.
+            { J. COLE.
+
+  VOL. VI   { THE ADVENTURES OF A BROWNIE
+            { SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON.
+
+  VOL. VII  { LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD.
+            { SLEEPING BEAUTY.
+
+  VOL. VIII { CINDERELLA.
+            { THE THREE BEARS.
+
+  VOL. IX   { JACK AND THE BEANSTALK.
+            { ROBINSON CRUSOE.
+
+  VOL. X    { ALICE IN WONDERLAND.
+            { THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS.
+
+  VOL. XI   { THE UGLY DUCKLING (ANDERSEN.)
+            { RIP VAN WINKLE.
+
+  VOL. XII  { HANSEL AND GRETEL (GRIMM.)
+            { SNOW WHITE AND ROSE RED
+]
+
+[Illustration: The Children’s
+
+Red Books]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+  CINDERELLA
+  or
+  THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Pictured By
+  John R Neill
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  CHICAGO
+  THE REILLY and BRITTON C^o.
+  Publishers
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  COPYRIGHT, 1908,
+  BY
+  THE REILLY & BRITTON CO.
+]
+
+
+
+
+CINDERELLA
+
+
+This is the story of a beautiful, motherless young girl whose father
+married, for the second time, a haughty and proud widow who had two
+daughters of her own, both vain and selfish. No sooner was the wedding
+over than the wicked woman began to show herself in her true colors.
+She could not bear the good qualities of her pretty stepdaughter,
+and the more because they made her own daughters appear the less
+attractive. She made her wash dishes, scrub floors and wait on her own
+daughters. She gave her a straw bed in the garret to sleep upon, while
+her own daughters slept in fine rooms and upon soft beds.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The poor girl bore all this very patiently, and dared not tell her
+father, who always sided with his wife. When she had done her work she
+used to go into the chimney corner and sit down among the cinders. They
+all called her “Cinderwench” except the youngest sister, who was less
+unkind than the eldest. She called her “Cinderella.”
+
+However, Cinderella, in spite of her shabby clothes, was a hundred
+times more beautiful than her stepsisters, in spite of the fine gowns
+which they always wore.
+
+One day the king’s son gave a ball, and the three sisters were invited.
+The two selfish sisters were delighted, and talked all day long about
+what dresses they should wear. This made new trouble for poor little
+Cinderella, for it was she who had to iron her sisters’ linen.
+
+“For my part,” said the eldest, “I will wear my red velvet.”
+
+“And I,” said the youngest, “shall wear my golden-flowered silk and
+diamond belt.”
+
+“Cinderella, would you like to go to the ball?” the youngest asked.
+
+“Alas!” said she, “you’re only jeering at me.”
+
+“You are right,” they both said; “it would only make the people laugh
+to see a Cinderwench at a ball.”
+
+At last the happy day came, and the two step-sisters went to court.
+Cinderella followed them with her eyes as long as she could, and when
+she had lost sight of them she began to cry.
+
+“What is the matter?” asked her godmother, who saw her in tears.
+
+“I wish I could--I wish I could”--but she could not speak for sobbing.
+
+Now, Cinderella’s godmother was a fairy, and she said to her:
+
+“Do you wish to go to the ball?”
+
+“Yes,” cried Cinderella.
+
+“Well,” said the godmother, “be a good girl, and you shall go. Run
+into the garden and bring me a pumpkin.”
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Cinderella got the biggest she could find, though she could not see how
+this would help her to go to the ball.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The godmother struck the pumpkin with her wand, and it was instantly
+turned into a fine coach, gilded all over with gold. Then she told
+Cinderella to bring her the mouse trap, which had six live mice in
+it. Cinderella did as she was told, and her godmother lifted up the
+trapdoor a little, and as the mice came out she tapped them with her
+wand, and each mouse was at once turned into a fine horse. So now there
+were six beautiful mouse-colored, dapple-gray horses and a magnificent
+coach.
+
+“And now for a coachman,” said the fairy. “Bring me the rat trap.”
+
+Cinderella brought the trap, with the three large rats in it. The
+biggest rat became a fat, jolly old coachman at the fairy’s bidding.
+
+“Go again into the garden and you will find six lizards behind the
+watering pot. Bring them to me,” she said.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Cinderella had no sooner done so than her godmother turned them into
+six footmen, who jumped up behind the coach with their liveries of gold
+and silver. The fairy then touched Cinderella with her wand, and in
+an instant she was dressed in cloth of gold and silver, all set with
+jewels, and on her feet were a pair of glass slippers. Then Cinderella
+got up into her coach, and the fairy commanded her not to stay one
+moment after midnight, for if she did the coach would become a pumpkin
+again, her horses mice, her coachman a rat, her footmen lizards, and
+her clothes just as they were.
+
+She promised to do as she was told, and away she drove to the ball.
+
+The king’s son was told that a great princess whom nobody knew was
+driving up to the palace, and he ran out to meet her. Everybody was
+astonished when they saw her great beauty. The prince fell in love with
+her at first sight, and he would dance with no one else.
+
+When Cinderella was taking refreshments she sat down by her sisters and
+spoke to them, but they did not recognize her. In fact, they felt very
+proud to be noticed by such a princess.
+
+Cinderella remembered what her godmother had said, and came home before
+12 o’clock.
+
+When the sisters came back from the ball later they could talk of
+nothing but the beautiful lady.
+
+The next night they went again to the ball at the palace. Cinderella
+waited until they had gone, and then she went, too, and she looked
+still more beautiful than the night before.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+She was having such a fine time that she forgot what time it was until
+she saw the hands of the clock point to five minutes of 12. She hurried
+off, but as she reached the door it struck twelve. The guard wondered
+how such a shabby little girl could have gotten in, for she was back
+in her rags again. In her haste, however, she dropped one of her glass
+slippers on the stairs, and the prince, who ran after her, picked it
+up.
+
+The prince next day sent out a herald with a trumpet, and a little page
+boy with the glass slipper on a velvet cushion, to proclaim that any
+lady whom the glass slipper should fit should become his wife. All the
+ladies begged to try it on, but their feet were all too large.
+
+When Cinderella’s sisters heard of this they tried to force their feet
+into the tiny slipper, but it was all in vain. As they were angrily
+giving it up, Cinderella said:
+
+[Illustration]
+
+“Let me try, please.”
+
+“Stupid girl!” said the sisters; “fancy you trying. Go and wash dishes.”
+
+But the herald said, “Let her try.”
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Cinderella sat down, and without any trouble put her foot into the
+slipper. Then she took its mate out of her pocket and put it on. Just
+at that moment her godmother came, and with a touch of her wand changed
+her rags into the most beautiful white satin gown that had ever been
+seen. She was the beautiful lady at the ball once more. Her wicked
+sisters were frightened, and begged her on their knees to forgive
+them, for they knew she was soon to be queen.
+
+Cinderella forgave them gladly, and asked them always to love her. She
+was then taken to the young prince, and he thought her more charming
+than ever, and a few days after married her.
+
+Cinderella, who was no less good than beautiful, gave her sisters rooms
+in the palace, and married them to two great lords, and they all lived
+happy ever after.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE THREE BEARS
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  COPYRIGHT, 1908,
+  BY
+  THE REILLY & BRITTON CO.
+]
+
+
+
+
+THE THREE BEARS
+
+
+It really was the neatest little cottage that ever was seen, and the
+three bears who lived in it were the tidiest and best-behaved bears in
+all that forest. For, of course, the cottage was in the middle of a
+forest. Bears love quiet, shady places where there are plenty of trees
+to climb. The cottage had a porch covered with honeysuckle, while roses
+climbed up the walls and peeped into the lattice-windows.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Now the three bears were not a bit like one another, for one was a
+Great Big Bear, and one was a Middle-sized Bear, and one was a Tiny
+Wee Bear. They kept the cottage very tidy, and every morning they made
+the great big bed and the middle-sized bed, and the tiny wee bed, and
+dusted the great big chair, and the middle-sized chair, and the tiny
+wee chair before they sat down to breakfast.
+
+One morning when the porridge was made and had been poured out into
+the great big bowl, and the middle-sized bowl, and the tiny wee bowl,
+it was so hot that the three bears went out for a walk in the wood, to
+pass the time until it cooled. The Great Big Bear and the Middle-Sized
+Bear walked along most properly, but the Tiny Wee Bear took his hoop
+and bowled it along in front.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Now that very morning it happened that Goldilocks lost her way in the
+forest. She was a very pretty little girl, with hair like threads
+of shining gold, and that is how she got her name. But she was very
+self-willed, and fancied she knew better than her mother. That is how
+she came to lose her way in the wood, for her mother had told her if
+she wandered from the path she would not be able to find her way home
+again.
+
+But Goldilocks had tossed her head and paid no attention. And so it
+happened that she wandered so far that she could not find her way back,
+and arrived at the bears’ cottage that sunny morning just after they
+had left it.
+
+It was a fresh, cool morning, just the sort of morning that made
+Goldilocks want her breakfast more than usual, for she had run out
+before it was ready, and when she came to the pretty little cottage she
+skipped for joy.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+“I am sure some kind person lives here, and will give me some bread and
+milk,” she said to herself. And then she peeped through the open door.
+
+“There does not seem to be any one at home,” she said anxiously. “But
+oh, what a delicious smell of porridge!”
+
+She could not wait another moment, but walked in and sat down in the
+great big chair and took a spoonful of porridge out of the great big
+bowl “Ugh!” she cried, making a face, “this is far too salt, and this
+chair is much too hard!”
+
+So she changed her seat and tried the middle-sized chair, and tasted
+the porridge of the middle-sized bowl.
+
+“Oh dear me! this has no salt at all,” she said, “and this chair is far
+too soft.” And laying down the spoon she jumped up in a great hurry.
+Then she tried the tiny wee chair and took a spoonful of the porridge
+out of the tiny wee bowl.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+“This is simply delicious!” she cried, “and the little chair is just
+right, too.”
+
+And she ate and ate till she finished all the porridge out of the tiny
+wee bowl! And the tiny little chair was so comfortable that she curled
+herself up in it until suddenly the seat gave a crack and she fell
+right through on to the floor.
+
+Goldilocks picked herself up and looked round to see if she could find
+a sofa to rest on, for she was now so sleepy she could scarcely keep
+her eyes open. Then she saw a staircase, and she climbed up at once to
+see if there was a bed in the room above. And sure enough in the room
+upstairs she found three beds, standing side by side under the open
+lattice-window where the roses peeped in.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+She threw herself at once on to the great big bed, but it was so
+hard that she rolled off as quickly as she could. Then she tried the
+middle-sized bed, but it was so soft that she sank right in and felt
+quite smothered. So then she tried the tiny wee bed, and it was just
+soft enough, and so deliciously comfortable that she curled herself up
+on it with a big sigh of content, and went fast asleep in the twinkling
+of an eye.
+
+Presently home came the three bears from their walk, and they went to
+the table to begin their breakfast.
+
+“Who has been sitting in my chair?” growled the Great Big Bear in his
+great big voice. For the cushion had been pulled all to one side.
+
+“Who has been sitting in my chair?” said the Middle-sized Bear in her
+middle-sized voice. For there was a large dent in the cushion where
+Goldilocks had sat.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+“Who has been sitting in my chair, and broken it right through?” said
+the Tiny Wee Bear in his tiny wee voice.
+
+Meanwhile the Great Big Bear had been staring at his great big bowl of
+porridge which had a spoon sticking in it.
+
+“Who has been eating my porridge?” he growled in his great big voice.
+
+“Who has been eating my porridge?” said the Middle-sized Bear in her
+middle-sized voice.
+
+“Who has been eating my porridge and eaten it all up?” cried the Tiny
+Wee Bear in his tiny wee voice.
+
+Then the three bears searched all round the room to see if they could
+find out who had been there. Next they climbed up the stairs to look in
+the bedroom.
+
+But the moment the Great Big Bear saw his bed all rumpled and tossed
+about he growled in his great big voice, “Who has been lying on my bed?”
+
+“Who has been lying on my bed?” said the Middle-sized Bear in her
+middle-sized voice.
+
+“Who has been sleeping on my little bed, and lies here still?” cried
+the Tiny Wee Bear in his tiny wee voice.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Now, when the Great Big Bear spoke, Goldilocks dreamed of a
+thunderstorm; and when the Middle-sized Bear spoke she dreamed that the
+wind was making the roses nod. But when the Tiny Wee Bear cried out she
+opened her eyes and was wide awake in a moment. She jumped up and ran
+to the window, and, before the three bears could catch her, she jumped
+out into the garden below. Then she ran through the wood as fast as she
+could, and never stopped till she reached home. And you may be sure she
+never went wandering into the wood again. So the Great Big Bear and
+the Middle-sized Bear and the Tiny Wee Bear ate their porridge in peace
+all the rest of their days.
+
+
+
+
+TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
+
+
+Superscripted text is represented as “text^superscripted”.
+
+Missing ending periods in the list of books “The Children’s Red Books”
+left unchanged.
+
+The original illustration on page 7 ommitted an apostrophe in what
+should have been “Children’s”. The illustration itself has been left
+unchanged, but the text caption in this edition has been corrected.
+
+Extraneous apostrophe on page 14 removed.
+
+Page 42: typo “arived” and incorrect apostrophe placement in “bear’s”
+corrected.
+
+Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been retained.
+
+To enhance readability, some illustrations have been moved from their
+original locations.
+
+*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 77727 ***