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Then he looked down, and saw that the blood streamed so much from

the shoe, that her white stockings were quite red. So he turned

his horse and brought her also back again. 'This is not the true

bride,' said he to the father; 'have you no other daughters?'

'No,' said he; 'there is only a little dirty Ashputtel here, the

child of my first wife; I am sure she cannot be the bride.' The

prince told him to send her. But the mother said, 'No, no, she is

much too dirty; she will not dare to show herself.' However, the

prince would have her come; and she first washed her face and

hands, and then went in and curtsied to him, and he reached her

the golden slipper. Then she took her clumsy shoe off her left

foot, and put on the golden slipper; and it fitted her as if it

had been made for her.