When evening came, Cinderella wished to leave, and the king's son was anxious to go with her, but she escaped from him so quickly that he could not follow her. The king's son, however, had employed a ruse, and had caused the whole staircase to be smeared with pitch, and there, when she ran down, had the maiden's left slipper remained stuck. The king's son picked it up, and it was small and dainty, and all golden.
Next morning, he went with it to the father, and said to him, no one shall be my wife but she whose foot this golden slipper fits. Then were the sister and brother glad, for they had pretty feet. The sister tried the shoe, but is was far too large, and there was no way to make it fit. So the brother, jakob, then tried as well. He carefully dressed up in drag that fit the style of the shoe, and went with the shoe into his room to try it on, and his mother stood by. But he could not get his big toe into it, and the shoe was too small for him. Then his mother gave him a knife and said, "Cut the toe off, when you are king you will have no more need to go on foot." Jakob cut the toe off, forced the foot into the shoe, swallowed the pain, and went out to the king's son. Then he took him on his his horse as his bride and rode away with him. Even upon discovering that Jakob was truly a young man in drag, the prince still loved him. Unfortunately, the toe became infected and gangrene took hold and jakob died.
Jakob was found dead at 6:15 pm in 34-501.
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