He tried the glass slipper on the foot of the second daughter. Her foot
was too short and too fat at the toe.

"You can pare off the toe," said the mother.

But the prince only laughed.

Suddenly the parrot called, from his cage by the kitchen window,

"You may pare off the heels,
Or pare off the toes,
But under the tub
The slipper goes."

The prince ordered his attendants to lift the tub. Crouching under it
sat Cinderella, clothed in rags but wearing on one foot the mate to the
glass slipper.

The prince knelt upon the velvet cushion, and tried on Cinderella's foot
the little glass slipper which he had found in the ball room. It fitted
exactly. It was like the slipper that Cinderella had on the other foot.

At that moment, the Fairy Godmother appeared. She touched Cinderella's
clothes with her wand.

There stood Cinderella, dressed in a costume even more beautiful than
those she had worn at the palace.

Then the prince saw that Cinderella was indeed the lovely maiden for