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1There was once a poor widow who lived in a lonely cottage. In front of the cottage was a garden wherein stood two
2rose-trees, one of which bore white and the other red roses. She had two children who were like the two rose-trees, and
3one was called Snow-white, and the other Rose-red. They were as good and happy, as busy and cheerful as ever two
4children in the world were, only Snow-white was more quiet and gentle than Rose-red. Rose-red liked better to run about
5in the meadows and fields seeking flowers and catching butterflies; but Snow-white sat at home with her mother, and
6helped her with her housework, or read to her when there was nothing to do. The two children were so fond of one another
7that they always held each other by the hand when they went out together, and when Snow-white said: 'We will not leave
8each other,' Rose-red answered: 'Never so long as we live,' and their mother would add: 'What one has she must share
9with the other.' They often ran about the forest alone and gathered red berries, and no beasts did them any harm, but
10came close to them trustfully. The little hare would eat a cabbage-leaf out of their hands, the roe grazed by their
11side, the stag leapt merrily by them, and the birds sat still upon the boughs, and sang whatever they knew. No mishap
12overtook them; if they had stayed too late in the forest, and night came on, they laid themselves down near one another
13upon the moss, and slept until morning came, and their mother knew this and did not worry on their account. Once when
14they had spent the night in the wood and the dawn had roused them, they saw a beautiful child in a shining white dress
15sitting near their bed. He got up and looked quite kindly at them, but said nothing and went into the forest. And when
16they looked round they found that they had been sleeping quite close to a precipice, and would certainly have fallen
17into it in the darkness if they had gone only a few paces further. And their mother told them that it must have been the
18angel who watches over good children. Snow-white and Rose-red kept their mother's little cottage so neat that it was a
19pleasure to look inside it. In the summer Rose-red took care of the house, and every morning laid a wreath of flowers by
20her mother's bed before she awoke, in which was a rose from each tree. In the winter Snow-white lit the fire and hung
21the kettle on the hob. The kettle was of brass and shone like gold, so brightly was it polished. In the evening, when
22the snowflakes fell, the mother said: 'Go, Snow-white, and bolt the door,' and then they sat round the hearth, and the
23mother took her spectacles and read aloud out of a large book, and the two girls listened as they sat and spun. And
24close by them lay a lamb upon the floor, and behind them upon a perch sat a white dove with its head hidden beneath its
25wings. One evening, as they were thus sitting comfortably together, someone knocked at the door as if he wished to be
26let in. The mother said: 'Quick, Rose-red, open the door, it must be a traveller who is seeking shelter.' Rose-red went
27and pushed back the bolt, thinking that it was a poor man, but it was not; it was a bear that stretched his broad, black
28head within the door. Rose-red screamed and sprang back, the lamb bleated, the dove fluttered, and Snow-white hid
29herself behind her mother's bed. But the bear began to speak and said: 'Do not be afraid, I will do you no harm! I am
30half-frozen, and only want to warm myself a little beside you.' 'Poor bear,' said the mother, 'lie down by the fire,
31only take care that you do not burn your coat.' Then she cried: 'Snow-white, Rose-red, come out, the bear will do you no
32harm, he means well.' So they both came out, and by-and-by the lamb and dove came nearer, and were not afraid of him.
33The bear said: 'Here, children, knock the snow out of my coat a little'; so they brought the broom and swept the bear's
34hide clean; and he stretched himself by the fire and growled contentedly and comfortably. It was not long before they
35grew quite at home, and played tricks with their clumsy guest. They tugged his hair with their hands, put their feet
36upon his back and rolled him about, or they took a hazel-switch and beat him, and when he growled they laughed. But the
37bear took it all in good part, only when they were too rough he called out: 'Leave me alive, children, Snow-white,
38Rose-red, Will you beat your wooer dead?' When it was bed-time, and the others went to bed, the mother said to the bear:
39'You can lie there by the hearth, and then you will be safe from the cold and the bad weather.' As soon as day dawned
40the two children let him out, and he trotted across the snow into the forest. Henceforth the bear came every evening at
41the same time, laid himself down by the hearth, and let the children amuse themselves with him as much as they liked;
42and they got so used to him that the doors were never fastened until their black friend had arrived. When spring had
43come and all outside was green, the bear said one morning to Snow-white: 'Now I must go away, and cannot come back for
44the whole summer.' 'Where are you going, then, dear bear?' asked Snow-white. 'I must go into the forest and guard my
45treasures from the wicked dwarfs. In the winter, when the earth is frozen hard, they are obliged to stay below and
46cannot work their way through; but now, when the sun has thawed and warmed the earth, they break through it, and come
47out to pry and steal; and what once gets into their hands, and in their caves, does not easily see daylight again.'
48Snow-white was quite sorry at his departure, and as she unbolted the door for him, and the bear was hurrying out, he
49caught against the bolt and a piece of his hairy coat was torn off, and it seemed to Snow-white as if she had seen gold
50shining through it, but she was not sure about it. The bear ran away quickly, and was soon out of sight behind the
51trees. A short time afterwards the mother sent her children into the forest to get firewood. There they found a big tree
52which lay felled on the ground, and close by the trunk something was jumping backwards and forwards in the grass, but
53they could not make out what it was. When they came nearer they saw a dwarf with an old withered face and a snow-white
54beard a yard long. The end of the beard was caught in a crevice of the tree, and the little fellow was jumping about
55like a dog tied to a rope, and did not know what to do. He glared at the girls with his fiery red eyes and cried: 'Why
56do you stand there? Can you not come here and help me?' 'What are you up to, little man?' asked Rose-red. 'You stupid,
57prying goose!' answered the dwarf: 'I was going to split the tree to get a little wood for cooking. The little bit of
58food that we people get is immediately burnt up with heavy logs; we do not swallow so much as you coarse, greedy folk. I
59had just driven the wedge safely in, and everything was going as I wished; but the cursed wedge was too smooth and
60suddenly sprang out, and the tree closed so quickly that I could not pull out my beautiful white beard; so now it is
61tight and I cannot get away, and the silly, sleek, milk-faced things laugh! Ugh! how odious you are!' The children tried
62very hard, but they could not pull the beard out, it was caught too fast. 'I will run and fetch someone,' said Rose-red.
63'You senseless goose!' snarled the dwarf; 'why should you fetch someone? You are already two too many for me; can you
64not think of something better?' 'Don't be impatient,' said Snow-white, 'I will help you,' and she pulled her scissors
65out of her pocket, and cut off the end of the beard.
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