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‘Beware of your step-mother: she is sure to find out where you are. Sobe sure to let no one come in.’ For a long time the Queen, thinking that Snow White was dead, believed herself to be the most beautiful of all. Until one day she remarked to her Mirror: ‘Mirror, mirror on the wail, Who is the fairest one of all?’— for she adored flattery. But whatwas her furyand dismay when the Magic Mirror, which could not lie, answered: ‘Lovely lady, mighty Queen, You’d be the fairest one, I wren: But Snow White lives by the mountain wall With the seven dwarfs in their cottage small — And she is the fairestone ofall!’ Then the Queen knew that she had been cheated by the huntsman. But she was more determined than ever to kill Snow White, and at lastshe set out for thedwarfs’ cottage disguised as an old pedlar woman. Over the seven mountains she went until she came to the dwarfs’ home, and knocked at the door, crying: ‘Pretty things to sell! Very cheap! Very cheap!’ Snow White looked out of the window, and when she saw that it was only an old pedlar woman, she unlocked the door and went out to look at the pretty things in her basket. Very soon she chose some brightly coloured stay-laces, and the old woman said: 131 ‘Gracious child, and you need them, too! Let me lace your bodice properly for you just this once.’ Snow White was eager to learn, and stood ready. But the pedlat laced so quickly and so tighily that Snow Whiie could not breathe, and fell down as if dead. ‘Now I am the most beautiful one of all!’ cried the Queen; and home she went across the seven mountains. But when she stood before the Magic Mirror and asked the usual question, it answered: ‘Over seven mountains where the seven dwarfs dwell Lives Snow White far fairer than words can tell!’ For the dwarfs arrived home soon after the Queen had left; and when they cut the new laces, Snow White breathed again, and soon told her story. ‘The old pedlar woman must have been the wicked Queen in disguise!’ they cried, ‘You must be more careful still, and let no one in when we are not here.’ Snow White had good need of the warning. For not many days later another old woman came over the seven mountains and knocked at the cottage door. At first Snow White would not open the door; but at last she did, though she did not come out but stood there looking at the pretty things in the old woman’s basket. ‘Buy a pretty comb for your hair! Very cheap! Very cheap!’ cried the old woman. And Snow White bought one. But the comb was poisoned; and as soon as it touched her head, Snow White fell to the ground.
‘Now I am the most beautiful one of all!’ cried the Queen, and home she went across the seven mountains. But when the dwarfs found Snow White lying in the doorway likeone dead, they lifted her up and the comb fell out. Then slowly life came back to her, and she could tell them what had happened. ‘It must have been the wicked Queen herself!’ they tried. ‘Now indeed you must never open the door to anyone when we are not here to take care ofyou.’ So when the Queen stood before the Magic Mirror and asked who was the fairest one ofall, it replied: ‘Over seven mountains where the seven dwarfs dwell Lives Snow White—far fairer than words can tell!’ Then the Queen nearly choked with rage and envy. But when she recovered, she set a pot on the fire and brewed a terrible poison. Then she took an apple that was green on one side and rosy on the other, and poisoned it so cunningly that the rosy side was deadly, but the green side remained harmless. With the apple in a basket, she disguised herself as a Gypsy, and went over the seven mountains to the cottage of the seven dwarfs and knocked at the door. Snow White looked out of the window. ‘I cannot tome out to you,’ she said, ‘nor can I ask you in. The seven dwarfs have forbidden it.’ ‘Never mind, deane,’ said the old Gypsy. ‘I shall soon get rid of my apples. There, I will give you one!’ Vt?:. ‘No,’ said Snow White, ‘I dare not take anything.’ ‘Surely you are not afraidof poison?’tried the Gypsy. ‘Well, just to show you, I’ll take a bite nut of the green side of this apple, and leave the rosy side for you.’ When she saw the Gypsy bite the apple and rat it quite happily, Snow White was afraid no longer. She stretched out her hand and took the rest of the applr. But the moment she tasted it, she fell down dead. ‘Nowlam indeed the most beautiful one of a!!!’ cried the Queen triumphantly, and home she went across the seven mountains, straight to her Magic Mirror. ‘Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest one of all?’ she asked. And the Mirror answered: ‘Lovely lady, mighty Queen, You are the fairest one, I wren!’ When the dwarfs came home that evening and found Snow White lying on the ground, they were filled with sorrow. In vain they combed her hair and unlaced her; in vain they looked for some poisonous gift about her; in vain they washed her with water and wine. Little Snow White was dead, and remained so. But she was still so beautiful that they could not bear so bury her. So they made a coffin of glass and wrote her name upon it in golden letters, and that she was -~
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