THE GOLDEN SLIPPER.

HERE was once upon a time an old
man and an old woman, and the
old man had a daughter, and the
old woman had a daughter. And
the old woman said to the old

 

man: “Go and buy a heifer, that
thy daughter may have something to look after!” So
the old man went to the fair and bought a heifer.
Now the old woman spoiled her own daughter, but
was always snapping at the old man’s daughter. Yet
the old man’s daughter was a good, hard-working girl,
while as for the old woman’s daughter, she was but
an idle slut. She did nothing but sit down all day
with her hands in her lap. One day the old woman
said to the old man’s daughter: “Look now, thou
daughter of a dog, go and drive out the heifer to
graze! Here thou hast two bundles of flax. See
that thou unravel it, and reel it, and bleach it, and