14 CINDERELLA. must go into the garden and bring me a pumpkin.” Cinderella almost flew to execute her commands, and returned with one of the finest she could meet with. Her godmother took the pumpkin, and scooped out the inside of it, leaving nothing but the rind ; she then struck it with her wand, and it instantly became one of the most elegant gilt coaches that ever was seen. She next desired Cinderella to go to the pantry for the mouse-trap. She did so, and found six little mice alive in the trap, which sbe brought to the fairy, who requested her to lift,up the door very gently, so that only one of them might go out at a time. Cinderella raised the trap-door, and as the mice came out one by one, a touch of the fairy’s wand transformed them into beautiful carriage horses. “ Now, my dear girl,” said the fairy, “ here you have a coach and horses much handsomer than your sisters’, to say the least of them ; but as we have neither got a postilion nor a coachman to take care of them, run quickly to the stable, where the rat-trap is placed, and bring it to me.”
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