flowing mane and tail. She then attached the CINDER-
six horses to the coach, the horses were all of a ELLA
beautiful brownish grey.
‘What are we to do for a coachman?’ asked
Cinderella.
‘Fetch me the rat-trap,’ said the godmother. The
girl did as desired. In it were three rats. The
fairy took the fattest, and with atouch of her wand
changed him into a pompous and dignified coach-
man.
Then she said, ‘Go into the garden, and you will
there find six lizards behind the watering pot,
bring them to me.’
No sooner had Cinderella done what was com-
manded, than the fairy changed them dexterously
into six sleek lackeys, which mounted behind the
coach and hung on to it with all the grace and
facility as if they had been bred to it.
The fairy then said to Cinderella: ‘There now, you
are set up with a conveyance in which to go to
the ball.’
‘That is very true,’ answered the girl, ‘but, alas!
my clothes are so mean and soiled, that I shall be
ashamed to get out of my beautiful coach.’
‘That is easily remedied,’ said the fairy, and she
touched the garments worn by her godchild.
They were at once changed into the most splendid
silk, studded with diamonds.
‘And now to make you complete,’ said the fairy,
‘I give you two glass slippers, the only ones there
are in the world.’
When Cinderella was thus dressed, she mounted
her carriage, and thanked her godmother grate-
fully. The good fairy said to her: ‘I am well
pleased that you should enjoy yourself. But re-
member to leave before midnight. If you remain
amoment after the last stroke of the clock, then
your carriage will turn into a pumpkin, your horses
into mice, your driver into a rat, your flunkeys into
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