140 GLENOWEN, OR THE

“© these pretty horses should once have
been mice, like Cinderella’s, and should
turn to mice again before we get to
Nurse’s house.”—** It would be as likely
that the nice clothes we wear, which [
am sure the Fairy sent to us, might
be changed, lke Cinderella’s, to dirty
rags,” said Charles: ‘* but, you see,
they do not; for they are just as they
were when we had them on first. Nor
would Cinderella’s haye been changed,
if she had not disobeyed the Fairy,
who was so good as to give her all those
pretty things.”

Perisanda laughed repeatedly at the
conversation which occasionally passed
between Charles and his sister; and
having asked them several questions,
relative to what they had. seen and

thought