Long, long ago, in the winter-time, when the snowflakes were falling like little white feathers from the sky, a beautiful Queen sat beside her window, which was framed in black ebony, and stitched. As she worked, she looked sometimes at the falling snow, and so it happened that she pricked her finger with her needle, so that three drops of blood fell upon the snow. How pretty the red blood looked upon the dazzling white! The Queen said to herself as she saw it, "Ah me! If only I had a dear little child as white as the snow, as rosy as the blood, and with hair as black as the ebony window-frame."

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Soon afterwards a little daughter came to her, who was white as snow, rosy as the blood, and whose hair was as black as ebony--so she was called "Little Snow-White."
But alas! When the little one came, the good Queen dies.

A year passed away, and the King took another wife. She was very beautiful, but so proud and haughty that she could not bear to be surpassed in beauty by anyone.She possessed a wonderful mirror which could answer her when she stood before it and said-
"Mirror, mirror upon the wall, Who is the fairest of all?"
The mirror answered-
"Thou, O Queen, art the fairest of all,"
and the Queen was contented, because she knew the mirror could speak nothing but the truth.

But as time passed on, Little Snow-White grew more and more beautiful, until when she was seven years old, she was as lovely as the bright day, and still more lovely than the Queen herself, so that when the lady one day asked her mirror-

"Mirror, mirror upon the wall, Who is the fairest fair of all?"
it answered-
"O Lady Queen, though fair ye be, Snow-White is fairer far to see."

At this the queeen took fright and tured yellow and green with envy. From now on whenever she saw Snowwhite, her heart turned over inside her, she hated the girl so.And envy and pride took root like weeds in her heart grew higher and higher, giving her no peace by day or night. So she sent for a huntman and said:
" Take that child out into the forest, I'm sick of the sight of her. Your are to kill her and bring me her lungs and liver as proof.' The huntsman obeyed and took Snowwhite with him, but when he had drawn his hunting-knife and was about to thrust it into her innocent heartshe began to cry and said:
'Oh, dear huntsman, let me live' I will run away into the wild forest and never come home again.'

And because she was so beautiful the huntsman took pity on her and said:
' Run away then, you poor child.'
The wild beasts will soon have eaten you, he thought,and yet it was as if a stone had been rolled from his heart because he did not have to kill her. And when a young boar happened to come to bounding up he slaughtered it, cut out its lungs and livers and took them to the queen as the proof she wanted. ( The cook was ordered to stew them in salt, and the wicked woman devoured them, thinking she had eaten the liver and lungs of Snowwhite. )

And now the poor child was utterly alone in the huge forest, and so terrified that she gazed at every leaf on the trees, trying to think what to do to save herself. Then she began to run, and she ran over the sharp stones and through the thorns, and the wild animals bounded past her but did not harm her. She ran on as far as her feet would carry her, until was nearly everning: then she saw a little cottage and went into it to rest. Inside the cottage everything was tiny, but more dainty and neat than you can imagine. There stood a little table with a white tablecloth and seven little plates, every plate with its little spoon, and seven little knives and forks and cups as well. In a tow along the wall stood seven little beds all made up with sheets as white as snow.

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Because she was so hungry and thirsty, Snowwhite ate a little of the vegetables and bread from each plate and drank a sip of wine from each of the cups; for she didn't want to take the whole of anyone's supper. Then, beacause she was so tired, she lay down on one of the little beds --- but none of them fitted her: one was too long, the nest too short, till finally the seventh was the right size. So in it she stayed, and said her prayers and went to sleep.

When it had got quite dark, the owerns of the little house came home: they were the seven dwarfs who worked in the hills, hacking and digging out precious metal.

They lit their seven lamps, and as soon as there was light in the cottage they saw that someone had been there, because not everything was exactly as they had left it.
The first said:"Who's been sitting on my chair?"
The second said:' Who's been eating from my plate?'
The third said:' Who's taken some of my bread?'
The fourth said:' Who's eaten some of my vegetables?'
The fifth said:'Who's been poking with my fork?"
The sixth said:' Who's been cutting with my knife?'
The seventh said:'Who's been dringking out of my cup?'
Then the first of them looked round and saw that there was a little hollow on his bed, and he said:'Who's stepped on my bed?' The others camerunning up and exclaimed :' Someone's been in mine too.'But when the seventh looked at his bed he saw Snowwhite lying there asleep.And he called the others, who came running up and cried out in amazement; thery fetched their seven little lamps and shone them on Snowwhite. "Oh goodness me! Oh goodness me!' they cried. 'What a lovely girl!'

And they were so delighted that they didn't wake her, but let her go on sleeping in the little bed. But the seventh dwarf slept with his
companions, one hour with each of them, and so the night passed.

When it was morning Snowwhite woke up, and when she saw the seven dwarfs she was scared. But they spoke to her knidly and asked her what her name was. " I am called Snowwhite,' she replied. ' How did you get into our house?' asked the dwarfs. So she told them how her stepmother had tried to have her killed, but that the huntsman had spared her life, and then she had wandered all day till finally she found their cottage.

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The dwarfs said:' If you will keep house for us, and do the cooking and the beds and the washing and the sewing and the knitting, and keep everything neat and tidy, you can stay with us and you shan't want for anything.'
' Yes,' said Snowwhite, ' I'd like that very much.'
So she stayed with them, and looked after their cottage. In the morning thery went into the hills and dug for ore and gold, in the evening they came back and their supper had to be ready. The young girl was by herself all day, and the kind dwarfs warned her and said:'Beware of your stepmother, she will soon find out you are here; don't on any account let anyone in.'

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Originally posted by 水妖 at 2005/6/24 03:41 PM:
continued.

I like to continue the good

Plus six hours

真是经典啊

久违了

呵呵
经典，这个故事也间接害死了一个伟大的科学家

I like Snowwhite and seven dwarves ..

只知道前面的
long long ago 其他的都看不懂了

pretty princess

好棒啊!!!!

:\ ， 这个还有阅读权限的管制，我看不了