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 beautiful person who owned the little glass slipper.

What they said was very true; for a few days after, the king’s son caused it to be proclaimed, by sound of trumpet, that he would marry her, whose foot that slipper would just fit. They whom he employed, began to try it upon the princesses, then the dutchesses, and all the court, but in vain; it was then brought to the two sisters, who did all they possibly could to thrust a foot into the slipper, but they could not effect it. Cinderilla, who saw all this, and knew her slipper, said to them laughing, Let me see if it will not fit me? Her sisters burst out a laughing, and began to banter. The gentleman who was sent to try the slipper, looked earnestly to Cinderilla, and finding her very handsome, said, It was but just that she should try, and that he had orders to let every one make trial.

He obliged Cinderilla to sit down, and putting the slipper to her foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as if it had been made of wax. The amazement her two sisters were in, was excessively great, but still abundantly greater, when Cinderilla pulled out of her pocket the other slipper, and put it on her foot. Thereupon in came her god-mother, who having touched with her wand, Cinderilla’s clothes, made them richer, and more magnificent than any of those she had before.

When her two sisters found her, to be the beautiful lady they had seen before at the ball, they threw themselves at her feet, and begged pardon for the ill treatment they had made her undergo. Cinderilla took them up, and as she embraced