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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