episode 3
Now it happened that the king of the land held a feast which was to last seven days, and out of those who came to it his son was to choose a bride for himself, and Cinderella’s three sisters were asked to come.
So they called Cinderella, and said,
“Now, comb our hair, brush our shoes, and tie our sashes for us, for we are going to dance at the king’s feast.”
Then she did as she was told, but when all was done she could not help crying, for she thought to herself, she would have liked to go to the dance too, and at last she begged her mother very hard to let her go,
“You! Cinderella?”
Said she;
“You who have nothing to wear, no clothes at all, and who cannot even dance-you want to go to the ball?”
And when she kept on begging, to get rid of her, she said at last,
“I will throw this basinful of peas into the ash heap, and if you have picked them all out in two hours you shall go to the feast too.”
Then she threw the peas into the ashes; but the little maiden ran out at the back door into the garden, and cried out-
“Hither, thither, through the sky, turtle-doves and linnets fly!”
“Blackbird, thrush, and chaffinch gay, hither, thither, haste away!”
“One and all, come, help me quick! Haste ye, haste ye,-pick, pick, pick!”
