CINDERELLA.

Finally, the heralds came to the two sisters, but they
fared no better, tug and strain as they would.

“Let me try it,” said Cinderella; and the sisters
objected. But the herald said that his orders were to try it
on everyone.

So Cinderella put it on with the greatest ease, and then
she drew the fellow-slipper from her pocket, and when she
had put this on, she stood up in her robes of gold and
silver, and the sisters knew that she was the princess they
had seen, and begged her forgiveness,

Then Cinderella married the prince, and soon after the
two sisters, who had learned to subdue their pride, married
two lords of the court.

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD.

HERE was once a wood-cutter and his wife, who had
one little girl. She was very pretty, with sweet blue
eyes and golden hair; and she could feed the pigs, and sew
seams, and churn the butter; so she was very useful to her
mother. In the next village lived her old grandmother,
who loved her so much that she made a scarlet hood for her
to keep her warm, and when the neighbors saw it they called
her “ Little Red Riding Hood.”

One day her mother said to her: “Granny has been very
ill. Put on your hood and run and see her, and take her
these cheesecakes and this pat of fresh butter that I have
made for her.” Little Red Riding Hood started off very

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