Then the dwarfs asked her if she would be willing to stop with them and keep house for them and she said that she would be delighted. So they waited till she woke up, and asked her how she had come there, and she told them all that the hunter had said to her about the Queen wanting to slay her. "Somebody is sleeping in my bed, just look how beautiful she is!" "And somebody's been sleeping in my bed!"Īnd the third one called out in a shrill voice, for he was so excited: And when they came in, after they had washed themselves, they went to their beds, and the first of them said: In the evening the owners of the hut, who were three little dwarfs who earned their living by digging coal in the hills, came back to their home. So she tried the third bed, but that was neither too hard nor too soft, but suited her exactly and she fell asleep there. And she went up to the first bed and lay down upon it, but it was so hard that she couldn't rest and then she went up to the second bed and lay down upon that, but that was so soft that she got too hot and couldn't go to sleep. She was so tired that she lifted up the latch and walked in, and there she saw three little beds and three little chairs and three little cupboards all ready for use. Snow White wandered on and on till she got through the forest and came to a mountain hut and knocked at the door, but she got no reply. Then he killed a deer and took back the heart to the Queen, telling her that it was the heart of Snow White. Then the Queen grew terribly jealous of Snow White and thought and thought how she could get rid of her, till at last she went to a hunter and engaged him for a large sum of money to take Snow White out into the forest and there kill her and bring back her heart.īut when the hunter had taken Snow White out into the forest and thought to kill her, she was so beautiful that his heart failed him, and he let her go, telling her she must not, for his sake and for her own, return to the King's palace. And every morning she used to stand before her mirror and say:īut Snow White grew fairer and fairer every year, till at last one day when the Queen in the morning spoke to her mirror and said: So they called her Snow White.īut before Snow White had grown up, her mother, the Queen, died and her father married again, a most beautiful princess who was very vain of her beauty and jealous of all women who might be thought as beautiful as she was. "Ah, what would I give to have a daughter with skin as white as snow and cheeks as red as blood."Īfter a while a little daughter came to her with skin as white as snow and cheeks as red as blood. One winter's afternoon she was sitting by the window sewing when she pricked her finger, and three drops of blood fell on the snow. There was once a queen who had no children, and it grieved her sorely.
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