A Modern Cinderella; Or, The Little Old Shoe, and Other Stories

by Louisa May Alcott

A Modern Cinderella

or The Little Old Shoe
And Other Stories

by

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

CONTENTS

[A MODERN CINDERELLA: OR, THE LITTLE OLD SHOE]
[DEBBY'S DEBUT]
[BROTHERS]
[NELLY'S HOSPITAL]

A MODERN CINDERELLA
OR,
THE LITTLE OLD SHOE

HOW IT WAS LOST

Among green New England hills stood an ancient house, many-gabled, mossy-roofed, and quaintly built, but picturesque and pleasant to the eye; for a brook ran babbling through the orchard that encompassed it about, a garden-plat stretched upward to the whispering birches on the slope, and patriarchal elms stood sentinel upon the lawn, as they had stood almost a century ago, when the Revolution rolled that way and found them young.