Identifier: heartofoakbooks02nort (find matches)
Title: The heart of oak books
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908
Subjects: Nursery rhymes Fairy tales
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : D.C. Heath & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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THE STORY OF JACK AXD THE BEANSTALK.TOLD ix PICTURES. THE HEART OF OAK BOOKS. 81
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THE STORY OF JACK AND THE BEANSTALK.TOLD IN PICTURES. 82 CINDERELLA, OR THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER. CINDERELLA, OR THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER. Once there was a gentleman who married, for hissecond wife, the proudest and most haughty womanthat was ever seen. She had by a former husband,two daughters of her own humor, who were, indeed,exactly like her in all things. He had, likewise, by another wife, a young daugh-ter, but of unparalleled goodness and sweetness oftemper, which she took from her mother, who wasthe best creature in the world. No sooner were the ceremonies of the weddingover but the step-mother began to show herself inher colors. She could not bear the good qualities ofthis pretty girl ; and the less, because they made herown daughters appear the more odious. She employed her in the meanest work of thehouse; she scoured the dishes, tables, and cleanedmadams room and the rooms of misses, her daugh-ters ; she lay up in a sorry garret, upon a wretchedstraw bed, while her sisters

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