Cinderella
‘Then let us go out and have a look at them.’
They went out into the dark garden to the pumpkin patch, and her godmother pointed to the finest of all with her wand.
‘Pick that one,’ she commanded.
Cinderella picked it, still wondering. Her godmother opened a fruit knife that had a handle of mother-of-pearl. With this she scooped out the inside of the fruit till only the rind was left; then she tapped it with her wand, and at once the pumpkin was changed into a beautiful coach all covered with gold.
‘Next we must have horses,’ said her godmother. ‘The question is, Have you such a thing as a mouse trap in the house?’
Cinderella ran to look into her mouse trap, where she found six mice all alive. Her godmother, following, told her to lift the door of the trap a little way, and as the mice ran out one by one she gave each a tap with her wand, and each mouse turned at once into a beautiful horse—which made a fine team of six horses, of a lovely grey, dappled with mouse colour.
Now the trouble was to find a coachman.
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