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with the king's son, and danced so gracefully that she was admired more than ever.

A fine supper was served, but the prince was so charmed with Cinderella that he did not eat a mouthful. Cinderella sat next to her sisters, who of course did not know her. While she was talking with them the clock struck the quarter before twelve, when, remembering what her godmother had said, she rose, made a curtsy to the company, and went home.

While she was talking with her fairy godmother, her sisters came home and knocked at the door. Cinderella opened it, saying, "How long you stayed!" and pretended to yawn. "You would not be sleepy if you had been at the ball," said one of the sisters. "The handsomest princess that ever was seen was there, and she showed us much attention, and gave us oranges and citrons."

Cinderella asked them the name of the princess, but they could not tell. Cinderella smiled, and said, “She must be very beautiful. I should like to see her."

The next day the two sisters went again to the ball, and so did Cinderella, dressed even more beautifully than before. The king's son was always by her, and she was so interested that she forgot her godmother's charge, and when the clock was striking twelve she thought it only eleven. When she learned the hour, she ran swiftly from the palace, and the prince after

her. He was not able to overtake her, but she lost one of her glass slippers, which he carefully kept.

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Cinderella reached home all out of breath, without coach or footmen. She was in all her old clothes, with nothing of her finery left but one glass slipper.

When her sisters came home, Cinderella asked them if they were as much pleased as they had been the night before, and if the beautiful princess was there again. They told her that she was, but that she hurried away at twelve o'clock, running so fast that she lost one of her glass slippers, which the king's son kept, and that he surely was in love with her.

What they said was true. The king's son said he would marry the one whose foot fitted the glass slipper. Servants were sent out to find the one whose foot would exactly fit it. It was tried on princesses, duchesses, then all members of the court, but all in vain. Then it was sent about the country to all who had been at the court. It was brought to the two sisters, who tried in vain to put it on.

While they were making the effort, Cinderella, who could not help smiling, said, "Let me see what I can do with the slipper," at which her sisters laughed aloud. "Very likely it will fit your clumsy foot," said they. The gentleman who was sent to try the slipper saw that Cinderella was very handsome, and said he had been ordered to try it on every one who wished. Then,

putting the slipper to her foot, he found that it went on very easily, and fitted her as though it had been made of wax.

The two sisters were greatly astonished, and still more so when Cinderella drew the other slipper out of her pocket and put it on. At that very moment, in came her godmother, who, with one touch of her wand, made Cinderella appear more beautiful than ever 'before.

Her sisters at once saw that she was the princess whom they

had seen at the ball.

They knelt at her feet and begged her pardon for their ill treatment Cinderella for

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gave them gladly and

asked them to love her

always.

She was then taken to the palace, where the young prince received her with great joy.

married, and Cinderella, who was as

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good as she was

beautiful, took her sisters to live with her in the palace. They afterwards married two of the lords of the court, and all lived very happily.

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But when she came back,

The poor dog was dead.

She went to the joiner's
To buy him a coffin;
But when she came back,

The poor dog was laughing.

She went to the hatter's
To buy him a hat;
But when she came back,
He was feeding the cat.

She went to the barber's
To buy him a wig;
But when she came back,
He was dancing a jig.

She went to the fruiterer's
To buy him some fruit;
But when she came back,
He was playing the flute.

She went to the tailor's
To buy him a coat;
But when she came back,

He was riding a goat.

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