So they let her stay, and she was a clever little thing. The dwarfs said, "Do you think you could be our little housekeeper, to make the beds, cook the dinner, and wash and sew and knit for us, and keep everything neat and clean and orderly? If you can, then you shall stay here with us, and nobody shall hurt you." Then she told them all that had happened. "But did you come to our house?" asked one. But they spoke kindly to her, till she lost all fear, and they asked her name. In the morning, when Snow White awoke, and saw all the dwarfs, she was terribly frightened. "Oh, what a beautiful little child!" they said to each other, and were so delighted that they would not awaken her, but left her to sleep. He called the others, who came quickly, and cried out in wonder as they saw the sleeping child. Then the eldest looked at his bed, and saw Snow White lying there fast asleep. First they lighted seven little lamps, and as soon as the room was full of light they saw that some one had been there, for everything did not stand in the order in which they had left it. They were seven little dwarfs, who dug and searched in the mountains for minerals. When it was dark the masters of the house came home. One was too long, another too short so she tried them all till she came to the seventh, and that was so comfortable that she laid herself down, and was soon fast asleep. After this, feeling very tired, she thought she would lie down and rest on one of the beds, but she found it difficult to choose one. She ate a few vegetables and a little bread from each plate, and drank a little drop of wine from each cup. On it were arranged seven little plates, seven little spoons, seven little knives and forks, and seven mugs. In the middle of the room stood a small table, ready for supper. It was a tiny little house, but everything in it was so clean and neat. So she went up to it, and found the door open and no one at home. She ran on as long as she could, and towards evening she saw a pretty little house. At last she began to run over the sharp stones and through the thorns, and though the wild beasts sprang out before her, they did her no harm. To satisfy the queen, he took part of the inside of a young fawn, which the wicked woman thought was poor little Snow White, and was overjoyed to think she was dead.īut the poor little child, when she found herself alone in the wood, and saw nothing but trees and leaves, was frightened. Snow White thanked him so sweetly, and was out of sight in a few moments. She looked so innocent and beautiful as she knelt, that the hunter's heart was moved with compassion: "Run away, then, thou poor child," he cried "I cannot harm thee." So the hunter took the child into the woods but when he took out his hunting-knife to kill Snow White, she fell on her knees and wept, and said, "Ah, dear hunter, leave me my life I will run away into the wild wood, and never, never come home any more." Never let her appear before my eyes again." And this jealousy grew every day, like a disease, till she had no rest day or night.Īt last she sent for a hunter, who lived near a forest, and said to him, "Hunter, take the child out into the woods, and if you bring me some proof that she is dead, I will reward you. Then the queen turned green with jealousy. So the proud woman went to her magic mirror, and asked:Ī thousand times more beautiful than thee." People began to say that she would be more lovely even than the queen herself. ![]() Years went by, and as Snow White grew up, she became ever more beautiful. Then she would go away quite happy, for she knew the magic mirror could speak only the truth. "Mirror, mirror on the wall, Am I most beautiful of all?" She owned a wonderful mirror, and when she stood before it to look at herself she would say: She was so proud and vain that she could not endure anyone as beautiful as she. When Snow White was a year old, the king took another wife. ![]() Very soon after this the queen had a little daughter who was very fair, had rosy cheeks, and hair as black as ebony and they gave her the name of Snow White. The red spots looked so beautiful in the white snow that the queen thought to herself: "Oh, if I only had a little child, I should like it to be as fair as snow, as rosy as the red blood, and with hair and eyes as black as ebony." Her knitting-needle was black, and as she worked and the snow glittered, she pricked her finger, and three drops of blood fell into the snow. One winter, when the snowflakes fell from the sky like feathers, a queen sat at a window.
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