5? © © © © © © © © THE SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF $ ft 1 CIND EH ILL A; OR, THE HISTORY OF A GLASS SLIPPER. TO WHICH IS ADDED a AN HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE CAT. ® <3 B 3 8 & 9 1 YORK s B Printed hy J. Kexdrew, Colltergatc FRONTISPIECE. Why should our garments, made to hide Our parent's shame, provoke our pride ? The art of dress did ne'er begin, 'Till Eve, our mother, learnt to sin. /S ADVENTURES OF THE BEAUTIFUL LITTLE MAID ^^^T^ttVi^fCjTT ft /%. 9 hL& Js£m Sum Mi JLt JtaM *m'&» J ORj THE HISTORY OF A TO WHICH IS ADDED, AN HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE CAT. YORK : Printed and Sold b.y. J. Keudrew, Coljiergate, Roman Alphabet, ABC D EFGHIJ K L M NO PQ R S T U V WXYZ M (E abcdefghi j k 1 m nopq r s t u v w x y z. Italian Alphabet. ABC D E F GH 1 J K L M NOPQ R S T U V W X Y Z, abed cf g h ij k I m no p q r s I n v xv cc y z. 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 CINDERILLii j OR, THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER. TFT ERE was a gentleman who mar- ried for his second wife the proudest and most ba ugh fey woman that was ever seen. She had bv her former husband two daughters, but of her own humour, who were indeed exactly like her in all things* He had like- wise bv another wife a daughter of unparalleled goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was one of the best crea* lures In the world* g No sooner were the ceremonies of the wedding over, but the mother- in-law began to show herself in her colours. She could not bear the good qualities of this pretty girl, and the less, because she made her daughters appear more odious. She employed her in the meanest work of the house, she scoured the dishes, tables, &c. and rubbed madam's chamber, and those of the misses her daughters ; she lay up in a very dirty garret upon a wretched straw bed, while her sisters lay in fine rooms, with floors all inlaid, upon beds of the very newest fashion. Her books were the only companions she had, and w r hen her sisters went out, she used to take the opportunity of reading their/s. The poor girl bore all patiently, and dared not to tell her father, who ? Would have rattled her off ; for his wife governed him entirely. When she had done her work, she used to go into the chimney corner, and sit down among the cinders and ashes, whidi made her commonly be called Cinder Breech ; but the youngest, who was not so rude and uncivil as the eldest, called her Cinderilla, however Cinderilla, notwithstanding her mean apparel, was an hundred times handsomer than either of her sis- ters, though they were always dressed very richly. It happened that the King's son gave a ball, and invited all persons of fashion to it ; our young misses were invited ; for they cut a very grand figure among the quality. They were mightily delighted at this invitation, and wonderfully busy in choosing out 8 tfneh gowns, petticoats, and caps, as might become them. This was a new trouble to Cinderilla; for it was she who ironed her sisters' linen, and clear starched their ruffles: they talked all day long of nothing but how they should be dressed, and were continually viewing themselves in their glasses. f r w . m tr* mm m j. m. i im ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ i w qaw mar 8 For my part, said the eldest, I will wear my red velvet suit, with French 9 trimmings. And I, said the youngest, shall only have my usual petticoat; but then, to make amends for that, I will put on my gold flowered manteau, and my diamond stomacher, which is far from being the most ordinary one in the world. They sent for the best hair-dresser they could get, to make up their head- dresses, and adjust their pinners, and had their red brushes and patches from Madamoiselle de la Blond. Cinderiila was likewise called up to be consulted in all those matters, for she had excellent notions, and ad- vised them always to the best ; nay, offered her service to dress their heads, which they were very willing she should do. As she was doing this, they said to her, Cinderiila, would you not be glad to go to the ball ? Ah ! 10 said she, you only jeer me, it is not for such as me to go to balls ; thou art in the right of it, replied they s it •would make the people laugh to see a Cinder-breech at a ball. Any one but Cinderilla would have dressed their heads awry • but she was very good, and dressed them perfectly well. They were almost two days without eating so much were they transported with joy, they broke a dozen laces in try- ing to be laced up close, that they might have a fine slender shape. At last the happy day came, they went to court, and Cinderilla followed them with her eyes as long as she could, and when she had lost sight of them, fell a crying. Her god-mother, who saw her all m tears, asked her what was the mat- ter ? I wish I could— I wish I could, She was not able to speak the rest, being interrupted by her tears and sobbing. This god-mother of her's, who was a fairy, said to her, thou wishest thou couldst go to the ball ! Is it not so? Yes, cried Cinderilla, with a great sigh. Well, said her god- mother^ be but a good girl, and I will contrive that thou shall go ; run into the garden, and bring me a pompion. 12 Chiderilla went immediately, gather* eel the finest she could get, and brought it to her god^mother, but was not able to imagine how this pompion would make her go to the ball. Her god- mother scooped out all the inside of it, leaving nothing but the rind : which done, she struck it with her wand, and the pompion was instantly turned into a fine coach gilt all over with gold. She then went to look into her mouse trap, w here she found six mice, all alive, and ordered Cinderilla to lift up the trap door a little, when giving each mouse as it went out, a little tap with her wand, the mice were that moment turned into horses, which altogether made a very fine set of six horses, of beautiful jet black. Being at a loss for a coachman, I 13 will go see, says Cinderilla, if there be a rat in the rat-trap, we may make a coachman of him. Thou art in the right, replied her god-mother, go and look ; Cinderilla brought the trap to her, and in it were three huge rats. The fairy made choice of one of the three which had the largest beard, and having touched him with her V wand, he was turned into a fat jolly coachman, who had the smartest whiskers eyes ever beheld. After that she said to her, go again into the garden, and you will find six lizards behind the watering-pot, bri% them to me. She had no sooner done it then her god-mother turned them into six footmen, who skipped up immediately behind the coach, with their clothes all bedaubed with gold and silver, and clung as close behind each other as if they had done nothing else all their lives. The fairy then said to Cinderilla, well, you see here in equipage fit to go to the ball ; are /ou not pleased with it? O yes, cried >he, but must I go thither as I am, n these nasty poisoned rags? Her rod-mother only just touched her vith her wand, and at the same in- 15 stant her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, bedecked with jewels. This done, she gave her a pair of glass slippers, the prettiest in the world. Being thus dressed out, she got up into the coach; but her god-mother above all things commanded her not to stay till after midnight, telling her 16 at the same time, if she stayed at the ball any longer than twelve o'clock, her coach would be a pompion again, her horses mice, her coachman a rat, her footmen lizards, and her clothes become just as they were before. She promised her god-mother she would not fail of leaving the ball before midnight • and then away she drove, scarce able to contain herself for joy. The King's son, who was told that a great Princess, whom no- body knew, was come, ran out to re- ceive her; Jie gave her his hand as she alighted out of the coach, and led her into the room among all the com- pany. There was immediately a pro- found silence; they left off dancing, and the violins ceased to play : so at- tentive was every one to contemplate the singular beauty of this unknown 17 new comer. Nothing was heard but a confueed noise of, ah ! how hand- some she is ! how handsome she is ! the ki ng himself could not help telling the Queen softly, that it was a long * time since he had seen so beautiful and lovely a creature. All the ladies were busy in considering her clothes and head-dress, in order to have some made the next day after the same pat- tern, provided they could meet with the same materials, and as able hands to make them. The King's son con- ducted her to the most honourable seat and afterwards took her out to dance with him. She danced so very graceful, that they all more and more admired her. A fine collation was served up, whereof the young Prince eat not a morsel, so intently busy was he in 18 —aromas gazing on her, she went and sat down by her sisters, shewing them a thou- sand civilities, giving them a part ot the oranges and citrons which the Prince had presented her with; which very much surprised them, for they did not know her. While Cinderilla was thus amusing her sisters, she heard the clock strike eleven and three-quar- ters ; whereupon she made a curtsey, and hasted away as fast as she could. ) 13 Being got home, she ran to seek out her god-mother, and, after having thanked her, she said, she could not bat heartily wish she might go the next day to the ball, because the King's son had desired her. As she was eagerly telling her god-mother whatever passed at the ball, her two sisters knocked at the door, which -inderilla ran and opened. How long 20 yo\i have stayed ! cried she, gaping, rubbing her eyes, and stretching her- self, as if she had been just awaked outof her sleep; she had not, however, any manner of inclination to sleep since they went from home. If thou hadst been at the ball, said her sisters^ thou wouldst have been tired with it, there came thither the finest Princess, the most beautiful ever seen with mor* tal eyes, she showed us a thousand civilities, and gave us oranges and citrons. Cinderilla seemed very in- different to the matter; indeed, she asked the name of that Princess; bat they told her that they did not know it, and that the Kinafs son was verv uneasy on that account, and would give all the world to know where she was, At this, Cinderilla smiling, re- plied, she must be very beautiful in- O -1 (teed. Bless me! how happy you have been! Could I not see her ? Ah! ear Miss Charlotte, do lend me your yellow suit of clothes which you wear every day. Ah! to be sure, cried Miss Charlotte, lend my clothes to such a dirty Cinder-breech as thou art, who's the fool then ? Cinderilla in- deed expected some such answer, and was very glad of the refusal, for she would have been sadiy putto it, if her sister had lent her in earnest, what she asked for lestinglv. The next day the two sisters were at the ball, and so was Cinderilla, but dressed more magnificently than be- fore. The King's son was always by her, and never ceased his compliments and amorous speeches to her; to whom all this was far from being tiresome, that she quite forgot what her god- mother had recommended to her; so that she at last counted the clock strik- ing twelve, when she took it to be no more than eleven ; she then rose up and fled as nimbly as a deer. The Prince followed but could not over- take her, she left behind one of her glass slippers, Which the Prince took up most carefully. She got home, but quiet out of breath, without coach or footman, and in her nasty old clothes, having nothing ] e ft of her finery but one of the glass slippers, fellow to that she had dropped. The guards at the palace were asked if they had not seen a Princess go out? who said they had seen nobody go out but a young girl, very meanly drest, and who had more the air of a poor country girl, than that of a gentlewoman. When the two sisters returned from the ball, Cinderilla asked them if they had been well diverted, and if the fine lady had been there ; tbev told her, yes, but she hurried away immediately when it struck twelve, and with so much haste, that she dropped one of her glass slippers, the prettiest in the world, and which the Kino's son had taken up ; that he had done nothing but look at her all the time of the ball, 84 and that certainly he was very much in love with the beautiful person who owned the little slipper. What they said was very true, for a few days after, the King's son caused it to be proclaimed by sound of a 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 Duchesses, and all the court, but in vain, it was 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, looking earnestly at Cin- 25 deri]] a> and finding her very hand, some said, it was but just that she should try, and that he had orders to let every one make a trial. He obliged Cinderilla to sit down, and, putting the slipper on her foot, lie found it went on very easily, and nttea her as if it had been made of wax. The amazement her two sister* 26 were in wa* excessivel} r great, but still abundantly greater, when Cinderilia pulled out of her pocket the other slipper, and put it on. Thereupon in came the god-mother, who having touched with the wand, Cinderilla's clothes, made them rich and more magnificent than any of those she had before. When her two sisters found her to be the beautiful, lady they had seen at the ball, they threw themselves at her feet, and beg- ged pardon for the ill treatment they had made her undergo. Cinderilia took them up, and as she embraced them, said, that she forgave them with all her heart, desiring them always to love her. She was conducted to the young Prince, who married her. Cinderilia, was no less good than beautiful, she r 27 I alace and that same day matched them with two great at court '£8 THE GAT Might be called the domestic tiger or leopard ; he looks as a spe- cies of those wild beasts, brought to, and degraded by, domesticity ; how- ever tame a Cat may be individually* the race has not yet lost its original habits; and ferocity, cunning, and treachery, still characterize the Cat* even on the comfortable lap, or at the side of his fond mistress. The do- mestic Cat is of various colours, from white to black, and the tortoise-shell one is reckoned the handsomest, al- though males of that description are seldom, if ever, to be found. The Cat . is a cleanly, neat, and very useful crea- ture, but can never be cured of his thieving propensity. The tongue is uncommonly rough, and the claws, Which are sheathed and brought out, as the animal pleases, exceedingly sharp, The Cat lives ten or twelve years, and brings five or six kittens at a litter, which the female educates and constantly drills in all fanciful tricks and useful exercise ; far away from her stern and saturnine mate, idio would destroy them if they an ere at his reach. 30 ANECDOTES OF THE CAT. It happened that some humane per- son, near PI ai stow, seeing a puppy struggling in a pond, drew it out half drowned; a cat, with truly maternal solicitude, licked, cleaned, warmed, suckled, and recovered it. Cats seem particularly disposed to adopt the offspring of a stranger : but the most extraordinary instance that I have heard, was related to me by a lady, who was an eye-witness of the fact. Her cat had a litter of kittens, that were kept in a hamper in tin 31 cellar. In order to please her children, she one day went down to see them. On looking into the hamper, she found a young rat amongst the kittens, which she ordered to be taken out. But, the next day it was again found, a quiet inhabitant of the same place ; and there was no doubt that the cat suckled it, and was disposed to bring it up with her own family. THE END, J. Kendrew, Printer York, 5 37? 3^ 8 PENNY BOOKS PRINTED and SOLD BY J. KENDREW, COLLIERGATE, YORK. Mrs. Lovecbild's Golden Present Silver Penny Death and Burial of Cock Robin Little Red Riding Hood The Cries of York - Surprising Adventures of Puss in Boots Sister's Gift ; or the Bad Boy Reformed Tom Thumb's Folio « The History of Giles Gingerbread Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe 1 The Hermit of the Forest Entertainments at the Royal Circus The House that Jack Built The World turned Upside Down The Cries of London » Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog, in Three Parts Cinderilla % or, the Little Glass Slipper A New* Year's Gift - A Collection of Fables , a. ■ ,ii ,i 111 , in Riddles