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^''Little snowdrop. r^NCE

upon a time

at 'the

window of

window were sweet-scente

at the Peepiijg in

Quedn.

'

roses,

gazed

'

and crimson. pure white, at them,

'*

hair as black as

my beautiful

how I should

my

after,

had a

little

whitieyand

said the Queen, as sh

love to have a daughter wil

itble,

and a

the Quedw's wish

baby

whose hair given her was ccitl Maek, skin lily

girl

Oh,

face red

'^"<^

^^^' ^y

roses."

Not long for she

ebony

F.'^lace sat

a grand

was granted,

'

WtPafft'^TVllWfTm

Little

Snowarop degs/or mercy.

^m Snowdroi) escapes thn

ng

iuaiTU

autiiiil,

nkind

but

and

'lore

^'MiiTon an-i the

me

tell

triu*.

am

mirror answered every '

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!><';n!ty,

i

not oi imr the iau

dayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;

Queen most

fair, is

ih.- r;n>'^f

of nur-

^ui Uuecn was made happy for many gvtw up exquisitely lovely, much more lovely than lepmother, and when one day tliti Queen asl<c(l her mirror - me,

j)

'

qu;?stion, the mirror replied Fair,

but Snowdrop's beauty

*

(he Queen was dreadfully jealous

and told him Hi-

to

to take

Snowdrop

huntsman took poor '

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,..ci.. '

^1-^^

5^^^

little

-

'^^

-

i

;

she called a huntsman

into the forest and

Snowdrop but she

'-^nsented to let her car the Pabicc aeain.

go 1

kill

bei:

her

So liard

if

he;

ijs.ils^

i^ff^willowSanrniai!*"^^

Snowdrop

cats the

}nen s shipper.

^m

The

little

men

return-%

little

arop

frighten

edwh

feuni fnrr^t

ran on and on

S.he:

Qockeci .Hi

the dooj uu> nu?J^iu>

she ibund a

m^^re

aiui

in,;

:at

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cU-ii'

taljle

on whic-

Laiii?^,

-e

and seven^ bowls of food, seven knives mid forks

of

.from

little

:r:

1

'

aud

la-iv,

hen

she

found

d lav

;

belonged

t<i

IV)oH

seven

we?

th(>b^.

went

down on

Snowdrop was verv hungry so

ail, ;;l^ut:; the:

How^ of

scv'enth -

wine.

upsUiir>

beds,

an*;-

oflc of

them

Now

this

litti^

seven' tmv

men

seventh

tr'ass

of wine

work.

\vith

iVv-

i

her

fjiiiLK

ihai they did

iiair

aiiu

not wake he

he had told her story, they asked or

them

as they

i^;:

ir

shr

were

erv-^laH todobo.

Queen wcu;

mirror and asked the

;

usual question, iii:

i

and the

that Snowdriof) ul

iriirror

was the most

60iiurc,

then

knew that

told

she

the rj^

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The

little

men find Snowdrop

lor^

he Queen /^ disguise, t

visits

rl

Snowdrop.

asleep.

lovely ribbons and laces which she

comb

her hair for her.

Queen used was poisoned, and girl's

head, poor

\x^''c

dreadfully

comb and

to sell.

and thought the old

hnriTicd with the things

^w,wi .^he offered tu

had

Snowdrop was

woman

very kind

But the comb the

directly she touched the

little

Snowdrop fell down dead. The little men sorry when they came home, but they found

little

and then Snowdrop sat up quite well again.

They knew the old woman must be the wicked jueen and told Snowdrop to be more careful. the

When laughtef

still

Queen found from her mirror that her lived, she poisoned an appky on one side

.uui^.<md:^''''^

but shu

Snowmop nd

bit it

Oh,

They put

out,

the

nu then went

s,"

it

pulled

Ceil

in ''

another disguise to see her. ^''"

uic

?

-^^^iv

steponly,

She showed

^at a ::paw::to:show;;yi;3U;

the

how good

it

pan which was not poisoned, and then

thought the other half must be as good as it looked, No sooner had she doneso than she fell down dead.

how

the

little

men

cried

when they came home

!

the body in a glass coffin, and one always stayed

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:%

The Prince arrives

in the forest.

r 1.^

One

little

man

always kept watch.

fc

away from work to take care of it Une day a Prince caniâ&#x201A;Ź by, and he said that he would give anyttifng to have such a lovelY maiden

to take about with him,

men would not give consented.

As they moved little

her

if

up

she were dead.

at first,

but at

last

The they

the <^{fii,t33ey stumbled over a

and the shaking caxised the pji<^!ce of apple Snowdrops mouth, and she sat lijp/; quite wtil.

stone,

to fall out of

So then

the

Prince married her, and the iittle But ^^en jumped lor joy. the wicked Queen was so angry th^^ she smashed the mirro-

and

cut' herself

was never

-^^

so badly, that she

beautiful

any more.

Gnu-^ C. Fhyd.

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