She led her into her chamber, and said to her, “Run into the garden, my child, and fetch me a pumpkin.”
Cinderella went at once to pick the finest she could find, although she could not imagine how this pumpkin could help her to go to the ball. [[31]]
Her godmother scooped out the inside, leaving nothing but the rind; then she struck it with her wand, and the pumpkin immediately became a beautiful gilded coach.
She then went to look into the mouse trap, where she found six mice, all alive. She told Cinderella to lift the door of the trap, and as each mouse passed out the godmother gave it a little tap with her wand and it was turned into a fine horse. The six made a splendid team of six horses of a fine dapple-gray mouse color.
While she was wondering what she should do for a coachman, Cinderella said, “I will run and see if there is not a rat in the rat trap; we will turn him into a coachman.”
“You are right,” said her godmother; “go and look.”
Cinderella brought the trap to her, and in it there were three huge rats. The fairy chose the one which had the largest beard, and, touching him with her wand, turned him into an imposing coachman with the finest mustache and whiskers ever seen. [[32]]
Then she said to Cinderella, “Go into the garden and you will find six lizards behind the watering pot; bring them to me.”
She had no sooner done this than her godmother changed them into six footmen, who jumped up at once behind the coach in their laced liveries, and held on as if they had done nothing else all their lives.
The fairy then said to Cinderella, “Well, here is something in which to go to the ball; are you not pleased with it?”