The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-11-17
Eay TIs .iyksH5sp Travelxt. ! CINDERELLA.
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Nellie Alcorn sat wearly by the fire .ace in wha, had once been the stately
 -.ning-room of the old Adam Mansion,
 shere her ancestors had lived Her
 lands were clasped on her knees and she
 as building high castles Tn ,he air.
 ae only fortune which Nellie could
 5oasi of was her face (which was d type
 I he most beauIifdD and this ;ambled
 1own old shanty Nellie being an orphan rom her earliest remembrance had lived
 x.,a her aunt and cousin and was made
 household drudge by the former. m
 :p,e of its being Nellie's own roof. il
 sas Nellie here and Nellie there all day ozg. There was dance ai d neighbors IA; night and most of the young people
 gre to attend. but Nellie was barred out
 ' her hateful aunt and cousin. Nice
 tea. indeed" said her cousin lane.
 Tour place, mss. IS al home, keep
 g the house and kitchen Tn order" Nellie, after long cry up in her oare garret, had given up the party and si.h more kindness than most girls Tould have shown. had even assisted her -ousin to dress. But even this did no, sitfice 10 please the fussy Miss lane.
 ou think Ii won't matter. l suppose She said. ill-naturedly. You deem your elf such beauty tha: some day you sill surprise us all by catching some in-, experienced prince and forcing him to marry you. May Joy ard happiness 70 with you both. Miss Cinderella Gin dereua was the name given to Nellie oy her cousin Jane whenever she was painfully spi,eful. Nellie had habit of ,i,tlng like Cinderella and indulging in eay-dreams, which she ma iined would ae realized in the future. She was in- dalging in one sf her dreams now. IL xas great blessing after ali. this being a6le to build her castles in lhe ar, and mich at times seemed 10 render her so much satisfaction. Nellie for the mo- aent forgot her poor living and sur -oundings and was living in one of those sxell times to come. '' It certainly won | oe this way for ever," she kept repeating,
 and if they did no, have a Sunday school here know would never be allowed to see any o7e. and but for Miss
 ennie Miss Jennie Grosvenor was her sunday school teacher). I'd get, out of aeart sometimes" Nellie's dreaming sas GU, short by a loud knock at the soor, a note from Miss Jennie," said Colonel Grosvenor's footman. This note aappened to be for poor Nellie and proved to be an invitation to a little evening party. "I have asked all my scholars and few Of my friends said Hiss Jennie, but it is you that particu-
 srly desire to come, for you know dear Nellie how much love you Here in- aeed was soothing syrup for Nellie's late disappointment. But her hear, sank ard she completely gave away when she .aought of her aunt. Aunt wiil never q me go" said the poor child mourn ially.
 But for once her aunt proved contrary 70 her supposi,ions- The truth was the 1rosvenors were no, the people 10 be al owed to pass by. They were the grea, persons of the neighborhood, enormously Sealfhy, in the habit of going to Europe every year, and looked up to by every cody. Her aunt thought of these things and came to the conclusion that il was a great honor and far too swell to let II slip oy. "The child will have 10 go.- said aeT aunt as sort of apology, but what Mss Jennie sees in her l can't tell jane could have killed Nellie. she was SO provoked. She had never been asked to lhe Grosvenors herself, and the idea of a Hs1ie kid being asked to a party. Why, I vas too awfuly ndiculous to mention. The next day, when this decision was an- aornced for Nellie's aunt could not eeip torsuring the child by pretending to sake night to think over it), Nellie few ap stairs to an old trunk in which the sedding dresses of he! mother and grand nother were carefully packed away and lad not been touched since the death of Nellie's mother. Nellie being slillful aznd with the needle, and having the ;aient to dress herself becomingly, in a 'ew days had rigged out for herself very