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in the keyhole! I want white bread and good
cheese." Indeed, if she really was hungry, she
should have contented herself with brown bread
and onions, because they did not bring anything
else. Then the Mammone Cat said, "Let's go, girl.
We are going to give you too a garment and all
the other baubles. Climb up the stairway, but be
careful, because it is made of crystal." The ugly
sister gave it no thought and mounted clumsily up
the steps with her wooden shoes; and so she
smashed up the stairway from top to bottom.
When she got to the drawing room, the fairies
asked her, "Would you like a brocade cloth with
golden pendants, or a fustian cloth with brass
pendants?” She insolently asked for the best things,
but she really ought to have taken the worse,
because they did not give her anything else.

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