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a King’s daughter. They put the coffin on the mountain,
and one of them a!ways remained by it to watch over
Snow White, who lay there as if asleep, but still as
white as snow, as red as blood and as black as ebony.
After many days there came a Prince riding through
the forest, and when night approached he sought
shelter with the seven dwarfs. Next morning he saw the
glass coffin with beautiful Snow White in it, and read
what was written on it in letters of gold.
‘Let me take the coffin,’ said the Prince, ‘and I will
give you for it whatever you may ask.’
‘We will not part with it for all the gold in the world,’
answered the dwarfs.
‘Then give it me as a gift,’ begged the Prince, ‘for
I cannot live without seeing Snow White.’
And he spoke in such a way that the kindly dwarfs
took pity on him and gave him whathe asked.
As the Prince’s servants were carrying the coffin down
the mountain side they stumbled over a stone, and the
lerk shook the piece of poisoned apple out of Snow
‘White’s throat.
Before long she sat up, lifted the lid of the coffin,
and said: ‘Where am I?’
Full of joy, the Prince said: ‘Beautiful Snow White,
you are with me, and I love you more than anything
inthe world. Socome with me to my father’s palace, and
you shall be my wife.’
Then he told her all the story, and Snow White felt
that she could love no one but the Prince who had fallen
in love with her so strangely. So she said goodbye to
the kind dwarfs, thanking them fur all their care and
faithfulness, and set out for the palace of the King.
There she married the Prince with great show and
splendour, and a!! the Kings and Queens from the
lands round about were bidden to the wedding feast.
Among them was Snow White’s wicked step-mother;
and when she had put on her richest and most beautiful
clothes, she stood before the Magic Mirror and said:
‘Mirror, Mirror on the wall,
Who is the fairest one of all?’
And the Magic Mirror, which could not lie, answered:
‘You are fairest here, I ween—
But fairer far is the young Queen!’
Then the wicked woman shrieked with rage and envy,
and vowed she would not go to the wedding feast. But
she could not keep away, she must see the young Queen
who was fairer than she—and so she set out for the
palace. And when she came into the ballroom and saw
that the young Queen was none other than Snow
White, she choked with fury and jealousy, and was dead
before night.
But Snow White and the Prince soon became King
and Queen of both countries, and they lived happily
ever afterwards.