Drizzle and Hurricane. Fantasy - A Nerd's Guide to Reading. Grimm Brothers. Ugly and idle one, because she was her own daughter; and the other, who was a step-daughter, was obliged to do all the work, and be the Cinderella of the house. Every day the poor girl had to sit by a well, in the highway, and spin and spin till her fingers bled. Now it happened that one day the shuttle was marked with her blood, so she dipped it in the well, to wash the mark off; but it dropped out of her hand and fell to the bottom. She began to weep, and ran to her step-mother and told of the mishap. But she scolded her sharply, and was so merciless as to say, "Since you have let the shuttle fall in, you must fetch it out again. " So the girl went back to the well, and did not know what to do; and in the sorrow of her heart she jumped into the well to get the shuttle.
She lost her senses; and when she awoke and came to herself again, she was in a lovely meadow where the sun was shining and many thousands of flowers were growing. "Cock-a-doodle-doo! "Cock-a-doodle-doo! Whichbook | A new way of choosing what to read next - StumbleUpon. - StumbleUpon. Alice in Wonderland Fandango Bucks.