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cheeks. They had a glass coffin made for her, and
laid her inside, so that she could be seen easily.
They wrote her name and her ancestry on it in
gold letters, and one of them always stayed at
home and kept watch over her.
Snow-White lay there in the coffin a long, long
time, and she did not decay. She was still as white
as snow and as red as blood, and if she had been
able to open her eyes, they still would have been
as black as ebony wood. She lay there as if she
were asleep.
One day a young prince came to the dwarfs'
house and wanted shelter for the night. When he
came into their parlor and saw Snow-White lying
there in a glass coffin, illuminated so beautifully
by seven little candles, he could not get enough
of her beauty. He read the golden inscription and
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