Once upon a time, there was a young girl named Cinderella.
She lived with her step mother and two step sisters.
The step mother and sisters were conceited and bad tempered.
They treated Cinderella very badly. Her step mother made Cinderella do the
hardest works in the house; such as scrubbing the floor, cleaning the pot and
pan and preparing the food for the family. The two step sisters, on the other
hand, did not work about the house. Their mother gave them many handsome
dresses to wear.
One day, the two step sister received an invitation to the
ball that the king’s son was going to give at the palace. They were excited
about this and spent so much time choosing the dresses they would wear. At
last, the day of the ball came, and away went the sisters to it. Cinderella
could not help crying after they had left.
“Why are crying, Cinderella?” a voice asked. She looked up
and saw her fairy godmother standing beside her, “because I want so much to go
to the ball” said Cinderella. “Well” said the godmother,”you’ve been such a
cheerful, hardworking, uncomplaining girl that I am going to see that you do go
to the ball”.
Magically, the fairy godmother changed a pumpkin into a fine
coach and mice into a coachman and two footmen. Her godmother tapped Cinderella’s
raged dress with her wand, and it became a beautiful ball gown. Then she gave
her a pair of pretty glass slippers. “Now, Cinderella”, she said; “You must
leave before midnight”. Then away she drove in her beautiful coach.
Cinderella was having a wonderfully good time. She danced
again and again with the king’s son. Suddenly the clock began to strike twelve,
she ran toward the door as quickly as she could. In her hurry, one of her glass
slipper was left behind.
A few days later, the king’ son proclaimed that he would
marry the girl whose feet fitted the glass slipper. Her step sisters tried on
the slipper but it was too small for them, no matter how hard they squeezed
their toes into it. In the end, the king’s page let Cinderella try on the
slipper. She stuck out her foot and the page slipped the slipper on. It fitted
perfectly.
Finally, she was driven to the palace. The king’s son was
overjoyed to see her again. They were married and live happily ever after.
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