Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-12-06
ssCinderelIa in Seryia.o

AS a number OF girls were spinning one day
a-field, sitting In ring around cleft in the
Madens, beware! for if one of you were to let her
spindle fall into this cleft, her mother would be
Immediately turned into cow" Thereupon the
girls at once drew nearer to the cleft and inauis
lively peeped into it. And the spindle of Mara
the faireSt OF their number, slipped out Of her
hands into the cleft. When she reached home
In the evening" there was her mother turned
into COW, standing in front of the house moo.
Ing. Thenceforth Mara tended and fed that
cow with filial affection. But her father mar
ried again. taking as his second wife widow
of the home grieVously ill-treated her step
daughter, forbidding her to wash her face, or
brush her hair, or change her dress And as she
became grimy with ashes, pepel, Mara received
the nickname of Pepelluga, that is, Cinderella,
or Ashypet. Her stepmother also set her tasks
which She could never have done had not 1.-The
cow, which had once been her mother" helped
her to perform them. When the stepmother
found this out she gave her husband no rest till
he promised to put the COW to death. The girl
wept bitterly when she heard the sad news, but
the COW cOnSOled her, telling her what to do.
She must not eat of its flesh, and she m lst
carefully collect and bury its bones under a Ger
tain stone, and to this burlal-place she must
afterwards come. should she ind herself In
need of help. The COW was killed and e 1t IN
but Mara said she had no appetite and ate none
OF its flesh. And she buried It's bones as she
had been directed.
Some days afterwards her stepmother went to
church with her own daughter, leaving Mara at
home to cook the dinner and to pick up a guam
tity OF corn which she had purpoSely Strewed
about the house, threatening to kill her If she
had not performed both tasks by the time they
came back from church. Mara was greatly
troubled at the sight OF the grain, and f1ed for
help to the cows grave. There she found an
open Golfer full of fine raiment and on the lid
sat two white doves, which said, '.Mara, choose
dress and go In 1t to church, and we birds will
gather up the grain" So she took the robes
which came first, all of the finest SILK and went
in them to church, where the beauty of her face
and her dress won all hearts, especially that of
the emperors son. just before the service was
over she glided out of the church, ran home and
placed her robes in the Golfer which immedi-
ately shut and disappeared. When her relatives
returned they found the grain collected, the din
nee cooked and AShypeJ as grimy as usual
Next Sunday just the same happened, only
Mara'S robes We're this time of silver. On the
third Sunday she went to church in rainent Of
pure gold, with slippers to match. And when
she left, the emperOrS son left too and fastened
after her. But all he got for his pains was her
right slipper, which she dropped in her haste.
BY means of it he at length found her out In
vain did her Stepmother when he walked in with
the golden test in his hand hide her under a
CROUCH, endeavoring to force her own daughters
foot into the too small slipper, and, when this
attempt failed. deny that there was any other
girl in the house. For the cock croWed out
'Kikerike! the maiden is under the trough"
There the prince in truth found her, clothed
from head to foot In golden attire, but wanting
her right slipper. After which all went WE'LL
GNOUeIItO e1', Nineteenth Century.