Page 5 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

nce upon a time in mid winter, when the
snowflakes were falling like feathers
from heaven, a beautiful queen sat
sewing at her window, which had a
frame of black ebony wood. As she
sewed, she looked up at the snow and
pricked her finger with her needle.
Three drops of blood fell into the snow.
The red on the white looked so
beautiful, that she thought, "If only I had
a child as white as snow, as red as blood,
and as black as this frame." Soon after-
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