CINDER-
ELLA

slipper put to her foot, than it slipped on as if
made for it. .
The amazement of the sisters was great, but it
was greater still when Cinderella produced the
other slipper—the fellow—from her pocket, and
put it on her foot.
Then the hearth opened, and through it rose the
fairy godmother. She touched Cinderella, and her
clothes became more beautiful and costly than
those she had worn at the balls. :
Then her sisters recognised her as the princess
they had seen and admired. They threw them-
selves at her feet and implored pardon for all
the injuries they had done her. Cinderella raised
them and kissed them, and said that they could
make up for the past by loving her for the future.
The fairy godmother then said that Cinderella
must go to the court in a splendid equipage,
whereupon, as by magic, the gilded coach drawn
by six greys, with the pompous coachman on the
poe, and the six lackeys behind, drew up at the
oor.
In this she drove to the palace, where she was
well received by the prince, who thought her more
beautiful by daylight than by that of candles.
A few days after, there was a grand marriage.
After that Cinderella got her sisters to lodge in
apartments in the palace, and after a little urgency,
two noblemen were persuaded to marry the sisters,
who sincerely promised and vowed on their side to
be better-tempered in their married state than
they had been as spinsters. And the noblemen
promised and vowed, on their part, if they did not,
they would give them shabby clothes, and smut
their faces till they became amiable again.

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