rd of sharpness, soon killed the giant, and
the magician was then carried away by a whirlwind. All the knights and
beautiful ladies, who had been changed into birds and beasts, returned
to their proper shapes. The castle vanished away like smoke, and the
head of the giant Galligantus was sent to King Arthur. The knights and
ladies rested that night at the old man's hermitage, and the next day
they set out for the court. Jack then went up to the king, and gave
his majesty an account of all his fierce battles. Jack's fame had
spread through the whole country, and at the king's desire the duke
gave him his daughter in marriage, to the joy of all the kingdom.
After this the king gave him a large estate, on which he and his lady
lived the rest of their days in joy and content.

CINDERELLA

OR

THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER

There was once an honest gentleman who took for his second wife a
lady, the proudest and most disagreeable in the whole country. She had
two daughters exactly like herself in all things. He also had one
little girl, who resembled her dead mother, the best woman in all the
world. Scarcely had the second marriage taken place than the
stepmother became jealous of the good qualities of the little girl,
who was so great a contrast to her own two daughters. She gave her all
the menial occupations of the house: compelled her to wash the floors
and staircases, to dust the bedrooms, and clean the grates; and while
her sisters occupied carpeted chambers hung with mirrors, where they
could see themselves from head to foot, this poor little damsel was
sent to sleep in an attic, on an old straw mattress, with only one
chair and not a looking-glass in the room.

She suffered all in silence, not daring to complain to her father, who
was entirely ruled by his new wife. When her daily work was done she
used to sit down in the chimney-corner among the ashes, from which the
two sisters gave her the nickname of "Cinderella." But Cinderella,
however shabbily clad, was handsomer than they were with all their
fine clothes.

It happened that the king's son gave a series of balls, to which were
invited all the rank and fashion of the city, and among the rest the
two elder sisters. They were very proud and happy, and occupied their
whole time in deciding what they should wear, a source of new trouble
to Cinderella, whose duty it was to get up their fine linen and laces,
and who never could please them however much she t