The Frog Prince

The Frog Prince created by Brothers Grimm and the story is very nice.

One fine evening a young princess put on her bonnet and clogs, and went out to take a walk by herself in a wood; and when she came to a cool spring of water with a rose in the middle of it, she sat herself down to rest a while. Now she had a golden ball in her hand, which was her favourite plaything; and she was always tossing it up into the air, and catching it again as it fell.

After a time she threw it up so high that she missed catching it as it fell; and the ball bounded away, and rolled along on the ground, until at last it fell down into the spring. The princess looked into the spring after her ball, but it was very deep, so deep that she could not see the bottom of it. She began to cry, and said, 'Alas! if I could only get my ball again, I would give all my fine clothes and jewels, and everything that I have in the world.'

Whilst she was speaking, a frog put its head out of the water, and said, 'Princess, why do you weep so bitterly?'

'Alas!' said she, 'what can you do for me, you nasty frog? My golden ball has fallen into the spring.'

The frog said, 'I do not want your pearls, and jewels, and fine clothes; but if you will love me, and let me live with you and eat from off your golden plate, and sleep on your bed, I will bring you your ball again.'

'What nonsense,' thought the princess, 'this silly frog is talking! He can never even get out of the spring to visit me, though he may be able to get my ball for me, and therefore I will tell him he shall have what he asks.'

So she said to the frog, 'Well, if you will bring me my ball, I will do all you ask.'

Then the frog put his head down, and dived deep under the water; and after a little while he came up again, with the ball in his mouth, and threw it on the edge of the spring.
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As soon as the young princess saw her ball, she ran to pick it up; and she was so overjoyed to have it in her hand again, that she never thought of the frog, but ran home with it as fast as she could.

The frog called after her, 'Stay, princess, and take me with you as you said,'

But she did not stop to hear a word.

The next day, just as the princess had sat down to dinner, she heard a strange noise - tap, tap - plash, plash - as if something was coming up the marble staircase, and soon afterwards there was a gentle knock at the door, and a little voice cried out and said:



'Open the door, my princess dear,
Open the door to thy true love here!
And mind the words that thou and I said
By the fountain cool, in the greenwood shade.'



Then the princess ran to the door and opened it, and there she saw the frog, whom she had quite forgotten. At this sight she was sadly frightened, and shutting the door as fast as she could came back to her seat.

The king, her father, seeing that something had frightened her, asked her what was the matter.

'There is a nasty frog,' said she, 'at the door, that lifted my ball for me out of the spring this morning. I told him that he should live with me here, thinking that he could never get out of the spring; but there he is at the door, and he wants to come in.'

While she was speaking the frog knocked again at the door, and said:



'Open the door, my princess dear,
Open the door to thy true love here!

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And mind the words that thou and I said
By the fountain cool, in the greenwood shade.'



Then the king said to the young princess, 'As you have given your word you must keep it; so go and let him in.'

She did so, and the frog hopped into the room, and then straight on - tap, tap - plash, plash - from the bottom of the room to the top, till he came up close to the table where the princess sat.

'Pray lift me upon chair,' said he to the princess, 'and let me sit next to you.'

As soon as she had done this, the frog said, 'Put your plate nearer to me, that I may eat out of it.'

This she did, and when he had eaten as much as he could, he said, 'Now I am tired; carry me upstairs, and put me into your bed.' And the princess, though very unwilling, took him up in her hand, and put him upon the pillow of her own bed, where he slept all night long.

As soon as it was light the frog jumped up, hopped downstairs, and went out of the house.

'Now, then,' thought the princess, 'at last he is gone, and I shall be troubled with him no more.'

But she was mistaken; for when night came again she heard the same tapping at the door; and the frog came once more, and said:



'Open the door, my princess dear,
Open the door to thy true love here!
And mind the words that thou and I said
By the fountain cool, in the greenwood shade.'



And when the princess opened the door the frog came in, and slept upon her pillow as before, till the morning broke. And the third night he did the same. But when the princess awoke on the following morning she was astonished to see, instead of the frog, a handsome prince, gazing on her with the most beautiful eyes she had ever seen and standing at the head of her bed.
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He told her that he had been enchanted by a spiteful fairy, who had changed him into a frog; and that he had been fated so to abide till some princess should take him out of the spring, and let him eat from her plate, and sleep upon her bed for three nights.

'You,' said the prince, 'have broken his cruel charm, and now I have nothing to wish for but that you should go with me into my father's kingdom, where I will marry you, and love you as long as you live.'

The young princess, you may be sure, was not long in saying 'Yes' to all this; and as they spoke a brightly coloured coach drove up, with eight beautiful horses, decked with plumes of feathers and a golden harness; and behind the coach rode the prince's servant, faithful Heinrich, who had bewailed the misfortunes of his dear master during his enchantment so long and so bitterly, that his heart had well-nigh burst.

They then took leave of the king, and got into the coach with eight horses, and all set out, full of joy and merriment, for the prince's kingdom, which they reached safely; and there they lived happily a great many years.
that all the story about The Frog Prince

Kisah Jack dan pohon kacang

Kisah Jack dan Pohon Kacang adalah sebuah cerita yang sangat menarik untuk dinikmati, karena ini merupakan sebuah cerita yang sangat bagus hingga sangat terkenal hingga ke seluruh dunia. Beginilah cerita Jack dan Pohon Kacang tersebut.

Dahulu, ada seorang ibu dan anak muda yang tinggal di sebuah desa. Anak muda tersebut bernama Jack. Kehidupan mereka tergolong miskin. Harta mereka yang ada hanya seekor sapi, yang lama kelamaan produksi susunya semakin berkurang. Menyadari hal itu, sang ibu pun berencana menjual sapi yang mereka miliki, kemudian uangnya akan dipergunakan untuk membeli gandum.

Rencananya, gandum tersebut akan ditanam di ladang dekat rumah mereka. Keesokan harinya, Jack membawa sapi miliknya ke pasar. Di tengah jalan menuju ke pasar, Jack bertemu dengan seorang kakek. Sang kakek menegurnya, "Hai Jack, maukah engkau menukar sapimu dengan kacang ajaib ini?". "Apa, menukar sebutir kacang dengan sapiku?" kata Jack terkejut. "Jangan menghina, ya! Ini adalah kacang ajaib. Jika kau menanamnya dan membiarkannya semalam, maka pagi harinya kacang ini akan tumbuh sampai ke langit, kata kakek itu menjelaskan. "Jika begitu baiklah," jawab Jack.
Sesampainya di rumah, Ibu Jack sangat terkejut dan marah. "Benar-benar bodoh kau! Bagaimana mungkin kita hidup hanya dengan sebutir biji kacang?" Saking marahnya, sang Ibu melempar biji kacang tersebut keluar jendela. Tapi apa yang terjadi keesokan harinya? Ternyata ada pohon raksasa yang tumbuh sampai mencapai langit. "Wah, ternyata benar apa yang dikatakan oleh kakek itu, gumam Jack". Lalu dengan hatihati ia langsung memanjat pohon raksasa itu. "Aduh, mengapa tidak sampai juga ke ujung pohon ya?" kata Jack dalam hati. Tidak berapa lama kemudian, Jack melihat ke bawah. Ia melihat rumah-rumah menjadi sangat kecil. Akhirnya Jack sampai ke awan. Di sana ia bisa melihat sebuah istana raksasa yang mengerikan. "Aku haus dan lapar, mungkin di istana itu aku menemukan makanan," gumam Jack.

Sesampainya di depan pintu istana, ia mengetuknya dengan keras. "Kriek..." pintu yang besar itu terbuka. Ketika ia menengadah, muncul seorang wanita yang besar. "Ada apa nak?", kata wanita itu. "Selamat pagi, saya haus dan lapar, bolehkah saya minta sedikit makanan?" Wah, kau anak yang sopan sekali. Masuklah! Makan di dalam saja, ya!" kata wanita itu ramah. Ketika sedang makan, tiba-tiba terdengar suara langkah kaki yang keras, Duk Duk! Ternyata suami wanita itu yang datang. Ia adalah Raksasa Pemakan Manusia. Dengan cepat wanita itu berkata pada Jack. "Nak, cepatlah sembunyi! Suamiku datang." "Huaaa!. Aku pulang. Cepat siapkan makan!" teriak raksasa itu. Jack menahan nafas di dalam tungku.

Raksasa itu tiba-tiba mencium bau manusia. Lalu ia mengintip ke dalam tungku. Cepat-cepat istrinya berkata,"Itu bau manusia yang kita bakar kemarin. Sudahlah tenang saja. Ini makanannya sudah siap." Setelah makan, raksasa mengeluarkan pundi-pundi yang berisi uang emas curiannya, sambil meminum minuman keras. Lalu ia mulai menghitung Tak berapa lama ia mabuk dan akhirnya tertidur. Melihat hal itu, Jack segera keluar dari persembunyiannya. Sebelum pulang, ia mengambil uang emas hasil curian si raksasa itu sambil berjalan mengendapendap. Jack terus menuruni pohon kacang dan akhirnya sampai di rumah. "Ibu! lihatlah emas ini. Mulai sekarang kita jadi orang kaya." "Tak mungkin kau mendapat uang sebanyak ini dengan mudah. Apa yang kamu lakukan?" Lalu Jack menceritakan semua kejadian pada ibunya. "Kau terlalu berani Jack! Bagaimana jika raksasa itu datang untuk mengambilnya kembali," kata ibunya dengan kuatir. Semenjak mendapatkan uang emas, tiap harinya Jack hanya bersantai-santai saja dengan uang curiannya.

Tidak berapa lama, uang hasil curiannya pun habis. Jack kembali memanjat pohon kacang, untuk menuju ke istana. "Eh kau datang lagi. Ada apa?" kata istri raksasa itu. "Selamat siang Bu. Karena saya belum makan dari pagi, perutku jadi lapar sekali." Ibu yang baik itu diam saja, tapi ia tetap memberi Jack makan siang. Tiba-tiba. Duk Duk Duk! Terdengar suara langkah kaki raksasa. Seperti dulu, Jack kembali bersembunyi di tungku. Setelah masuk ke rumahnya, raksasa itu makan dengan lahapnya. Setelah itu ia meletakkan ayam hasil curiannya ke atas meja sambil berkata, "Ayam, keluarkan telur emasmu." Lalu ayam itu berkokok, "kukuruyuuk.," ia mengeluarkan sebutir telur emas. Raksasa merasa puas, ia minum sake sampai akhirnya tertidur. "Telur emas? Wah hebat!" pikir Jack. Diam-diam ia menangkap ayam itu dan cepat-cepat lari pulang ke rumah. Dengan ayam petelur emasnya, Jack kembali bersantai-santai saja. "Daripaada kau mencuri, lebih baik bekerja di ladang saja", kata Ibu Jack. Karena tiap hari ayam itu mengeluarkan telur lebih dari seharusnya, ayam itupun mati.

Jack kembali lagi ke istana raksasa itu. Dan lagi-lagi ia bersembunyi di tungku, ketika raksasa laki-laki pulang sambil membawa harpa. Sambil minum sake, raksasa berkata," Hai harpa, mainkan sebuah melodi yang indah." Keajaiban pun terjadi, harpa itu memainkan sendiri sebuah melodi indah. Lagu itu membuat sang raksasa tertidur. Jack mempunyai niat mencuri harpa itu. Ia pun mengulurkan tangannya, tapi "Tuan, ada pencuri!" tiba-tiba harpa itu berteriak. Raksasa itu pun terbangun. Ia segera mengejar Jack yang berlari sambil membawa harpa milik raksasa itu. Raksasa terus mengejar, menuruni pohon kacang.

Ketika hampir sampai di bawah, Jack berteriak dengan suara kera. "Ibuu!. Ambilkan kapak dari gudang! cepat! cepat! Betapa terkejutnya sang Ibu melihat sosok raksasa yang datang mengejar Jack, ia gemetar karena amat takut. Begitu turun dari pohon, Jack segera menebang pohon kacang itu dengan kapaknya. Dengan suara yang keras, pohon kacang rubuh. Raksasa itu pun jatuh ke tanah, dan mati. Ibu sangat lega melihat Jack selamat. Sambil mengangis ia berkata : "Jack, jangan lagi kau melakukan hal yang menyeramkan seperti ini. Betapapun miskinnya kita bekerjalah dengan sungguh-sungguh.

Dengan bersyukur kepada Tuhan, pasti kita berdua akan hidup dengan baik." "Maafkan saya Ibu, mulai sekarang saya akan bekerja dengan sungguhsungguh, kata Jack pada Ibunya." Sejak saat itu, Jack bekerja dengan rajin setiap harinya. Di sebelahnya, harpa memainkan melodi-melodi indah yang menambah semangat kerja Jack. Cerita tentang harpa ajaib telah menyebar ke seluruh pelosok negeri.

Pada suatu hari, seorang putri cantik datang mengunjungi Jack. Tidak seperti biasanya, harpa memainkan sebuah melodi indah yang membuat sang Putri terpeso na. Lalu harpa bernyanyi : "Kalau Putri dan Jack menikah, akan berbahagia." Mendengar lagu itu, pipi sang Putri memerah. Akhirnya Jack menikah dengan Putri yang cantik tersebut berkat bantuan harpanya. Sejak saat itu Jack menjadi seorang raja yang suka menolong orang-orang yang kesusahan.
demikianlah Kisah Jack dan Pohon Kacang, semoga bermanfaat.

The Princess and the Pea

The Princess and the Pea is a very nica story, this time we are going to hear about this story, the story is like this.

Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess; but she would have to be a real princess. He travelled all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. There were princesses enough, but it was difficult to find out whether they were real ones. There was always something about them that was not as it should be. So he came home again and was sad, for he would have liked very much to have a real princess.



One evening a terrible storm came on; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly a knocking was heard at the city gate, and the old king went to open it.



It was a princess standing out there in front of the gate. But, good gracious! what a sight the rain and the wind had made her look. The water ran down from her hair and clothes; it ran down into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels. And yet she said that she was a real princess.



Well, we'll soon find that out, thought the old queen. But she said nothing, went into the bed-room, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and laid a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty eider-down beds on top of the mattresses.



On this the princess had to lie all night. In the morning she was asked how she had slept.



"Oh, very badly!" said she. "I have scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard, so that I am black and blue all over my body. It's horrible!"



Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had felt the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty eider-down beds.



Nobody but a real princess could be as sensitive as that.



So the prince took her for his wife, for now he knew that he had a real princess; and the pea was put in the museum, where it may still be seen, if no one has stolen it.

The Peasant in Heaven

The Peasant in Heaven is nica story about a peasant.

Once upon a time a poor pious peasant died, and arrived before the gate of heaven. At the same time a very rich, rich lord came there who also wanted to get into heaven.

Then saint peter came with the key, and opened the door, and let the great man in, but apparently did not see the peasant, and shut the door again.



And now the peasant outside heard how the great man was received in heaven with all kinds of rejoicing, and how they were making music, and singing within.

At length all became quiet again, and saint peter came and opened the gate of heaven, and let the peasant in.

The peasant, however, expected that they would make music and sing when he went in also, but all remained quite quiet. He was received with great affection, it is true, and the angels came to meet him, but no one sang.



Then the peasant asked saint peter how it was that they did not sing for him as they had done when the rich man went in, and said that it seemed to him that there in heaven things were done with just as much partiality as on earth.

Then said saint peter, by no means, you are just as dear to us as anyone else, and will enjoy every heavenly delight that the rich man enjoys, but poor fellows like you come to heaven every day, but a rich man like this does not come more than once in a hundred years.
that the very nice story baout the peasent in the heaven.

The Gingerbread Man

The Gingerbread Man is very nice story this is the story.

Once upon a time, an old woman and her husband lived alone in a little old house. The couple had no children, and being lonely, the woman decided to make a boy of gingerbread. She carefully mixed the batter, rolled out the dough, and cut out out a very nice gingerbread man. She added sugar icing for his hair, mouth, and clothes, and she used candy chips for buttons and eyes. What a fine looking gingerbread man he was! The old woman put him in the oven to bake. After he was fully done, she slowly opened the oven door. Up jumped the gingerbread man, and he ran out the door saying,

"Run, run, as fast as you can!
You can't catch me!
I'm the Gingerbread Man!"
The old woman and the old man ran after him, but they could not catch him.
And so the Gingerbread Man ran and ran. While he running, he met a cow.
"Moo," said the cow. "You look very fine! Fine enough to eat!" And the cow started to chase to little man.
But the Gingerbread Man ran faster, saying,
"I ran away from an old woman,
I ran away from an old man,
And I can run away from you!
I can!"

And he laughed,
"Run, run, as fast as you can!
You can't catch me!
I'm the Gingerbread Man!"
The cow ran after the Gingerbread Man, but she could not catch him.

The Gingerbread Man kept running, and soon he met a horse.
"Neigh," said the horse, "You look mighty tasty. I think that I would like to eat you."
"But you can't!" said the Gingerbread Man.
"I ran away from an old woman,
I ran away from an old man,
I ran away from a cow,
And I can run away from you!
I can!"

And so he ran singing,
"Run, run, as fast as you can!
You can't catch me!
I'm the Gingerbread Man!"
The horse ran after the Gingerbread Man, but he could not catch him.
The Gingerbread Man ran and ran, laughing and singing. While he ran, he met a chicken.
"Cackle, cackle," said the chicken, "You look fine enough to peck for dinner. I'm going to eat you, Mr. Gingerbread Man."
But the Gingerbread Man just laughed.
"I ran away from an old woman,
I ran away from an old man,
I ran away from a cow,
I ran away from a horse,
And I can run away from you!
I can!"

And so he ran singing,
"Run, run, as fast as you can!
You can't catch me!
I'm the Gingerbread Man!"
The chicken ran after the Gingerbread Man, but she could not catch him.

The Gingerbread Man was proud that he could run so fast.
"Nobody can catch me," he thought. So he kept on running until he met a fox.
He just had to tell the fox how he ran faster than all the others.
"Mr. Fox," he said,
"As tasty as I appear to be,
I cannot let you catch and eat me.
I ran away from an old woman,
I ran away from an old man,
I ran away from a cow,
I ran away from a horse,
I ran away from a chicken,
And I can run away from you!
I can!"
But Mr. Fox did not seem to care.

"Why would I want to bother you?" asked Mr. Fox. "You don't even look that tasty. No, young man, I don't want to eat you at all."
The Gingerbread Man was so relieved.

"Well, indeed, Mr. Fox," said the Gingerbread Man. "If you don't mind, I think I'll take a little rest here." And the Gingerbread Man stopped running and stood still.
And right when he stood still. Snap! went Mr. Fox's jaws right into the Gingerbread Man until he was gone.
"He was very tasty after all," thought the fox.

The Grasshopper and the Ants

The Grasshopper and the Ants is a very interesting story that tells about the laziness so that,, you don't ever to be lazy in doing anything. the stoty is like this.

In a field one summer's day a grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing to its heart's content. A group of ants walked by, grunting as they struggled to carry plump kernels of corn.

"Where are you going with those heavy things?" asked the grasshopper.

Without stopping, the first ant replied, "To our ant hill. This is the third kernel I've delivered today."

"Why not come and sing with me," teased the grasshopper, "instead of working so hard?"
"We are helping to store food for the winter," said the ant, "and think you should do the same."

"Winter is far away and it is a glorious day to play," sang the grasshopper.

But the ants went on their way and continued their hard work.

The weather soon turned cold. All the food lying in the field was covered with a thick white blanket of snow that even the grasshopper could not dig through. Soon the grasshopper found itself dying of hunger.

He staggered to the ants' hill and saw them handing out corn from the stores they had collected in the summer. He begged them for something to eat.

"What!" cried the ants in surprise, "haven't you stored anything away for the winter? What in the world were you doing all last summer?"

"I didn't have time to store any food," complained the grasshopper; "I was so busy playing music that before I knew it the summer was gone."

The ants shook their heads in disgust, turned their backs on the grasshopper and went on with their work.

HIstory Of Snow White

HIstory Of Snow White is one of most popular story in the world. This is the atory.

Once upon a time, long, long ago a king and queen ruled over a distant land. The queen was kind and lovely and all the people of the realm adored her. The only sadness in the queen's life was that she wished for a child but did not have one.

One winter day, the queen was doing needle work while gazing out her ebony window at the new fallen snow. A bird flew by the window startling the queen and she pricked her finger. A single drop of blood fell on the snow outside her window. As she looked at the blood on the snow she said to herself, "Oh, how I wish that I had a daughter that had skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony."

Soon after that, the kind queen got her wish when she gave birth to a baby girl who had skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony. They named the baby princess Snow White, but sadly, the queen died after giving birth to Snow White.
Soon after, the king married a new woman who was beautiful, but as well proud and cruel. She had studied dark magic and owned a magic mirror, of which she would daily ask,

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?.

Each time this question was asked, the mirror would give the same answer, "Thou, O Queen, art the fairest of all." This pleased the queen greatly as she knew that her magical mirror could speak nothing but the truth.

One morning when the queen asked, "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?" she was shocked when it answered:

You, my queen, are fair; it is true.
But Snow White is even fairer than you.

The Queen flew into a jealous rage and ordered her huntsman to take Snow White into the woods to be killed. She demanded that the huntsman return with Snow White's heart as proof.

The poor huntsman took Snow White into the forest, but found himself unable to kill the girl. Instead, he let her go, and brought the queen the heart of a wild boar.

Snow White was now all alone in the great forest, and she did not know what to do. The trees seemed to whisper to each other, scaring Snow White who began to run. She ran over sharp stones and through thorns. She ran as far as her feet could carry her, and just as evening was about to fall she saw a little house and went inside in order to rest.

Inside the house everything was small but tidy. There was a little table with a tidy, white tablecloth and seven little plates. Against the wall there were seven little beds, all in a row and covered with quilts.

Because she was so hungry Snow White ate a few vegetables and a little bread from each little plate and from each cup she drank a bit of milk. Afterward, because she was so tired, she lay down on one of the little beds and fell fast asleep.

After dark, the owners of the house returned home. They were the seven dwarves who mined for gold in the mountains. As soon as they arrived home, they saw that someone had been there -- for not everything was in the same order as they had left it.

The first one said, "Who has been sitting in my chair?"

The second one, "Who has been eating from my plate?"

The third one, "Who has been eating my bread?"

The fourth one, "Who has been eating my vegetables?"

The fifth one, "Who has been eating with my fork?"

The sixth one, "Who has been drinking from my cup?"

But the seventh one, looking at his bed, found Snow White lying there asleep. The seven dwarves all came running up, and they cried out with amazement. They fetched their seven candles and shone the light on Snow White.

"Oh good heaven! " they cried. "This child is beautiful!"

They were so happy that they did not wake her up, but let her continue to sleep in the bed. The next morning Snow White woke up, and when she saw the seven dwarves she was frightened. But they were friendly and asked, "What is your name?"

"My name is Snow White," she answered.

"How did you find your way to our house?" the dwarves asked further.

Then she told them that her stepmother had tried to kill her, that the huntsman had spared her life, and that she had run the entire day through the forest, finally stumbling upon their house.

The dwarves spoke with each other for awhile and then said, "If you will keep house for us, and cook, make beds, wash, sew, and knit, and keep everything clean and orderly, then you can stay with us, and you shall have everything that you want."

"Yes," said Snow White, "with all my heart." For Snow White greatly enjoyed keeping a tidy home.

So Snow White lived happily with the dwarves. Every morning they went into the mountains looking for gold, and in the evening when they came back home Snow White had their meal ready and their house tidy. During the day the girl was alone, except for the small animals of the forest that she often played with.

Now the queen, believing that she had eaten Snow White's heart, could only think that she was again the first and the most beautiful woman of all. She stepped before her mirror and said:

Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Who in this land is fairest of all?

It answered:

You, my queen, are fair; it is true.
But Snow White, beyond the mountains
With the seven dwarves,
Is still a thousand times fairer than you.

This startled the queen, for she knew that the mirror did not lie, and she realized that the huntsman had deceived her and that Snow White was still alive. Then she thought, and thought again, how she could rid herself of Snow White -- for as long as long as she was not the most beautiful woman in the entire land her jealousy would give her no rest.

At last she thought of something. She went into her most secret room -- no one else was allowed inside -- and she made a poisoned apple. From the outside it was beautiful, and anyone who saw it would want it. But anyone who might eat a little piece of it would died. Coloring her face, she disguised herself as an old peddler woman, so that no one would recognize her, traveled to the dwarves house and knocked on the door.

Snow White put her head out of the window, and said, "I must not let anyone in; the seven dwarves have forbidden me to do so."

"That is all right with me," answered the peddler woman. "I'll easily get rid of my apples. Here, I'll give you one of them."

"No," said Snow White, "I cannot accept anything from strangers."

"Are you afraid of poison?" asked the old woman. "Look, I'll cut the apple in two. You eat half and I shall eat half."

Now the apple had been so artfully made that only the one half was poisoned. Snow White longed for the beautiful apple, and when she saw that the peddler woman was eating part of it she could no longer resist, and she stuck her hand out and took the poisoned half. She barely had a bite in her mouth when she fell to the ground dead.

The queen looked at her with an evil stare, laughed loudly, and said, "White as snow, red as blood, black as ebony wood! The dwarves shall never awaken you."

Back at home she asked her mirror:

Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Who in this land is fairest of all?

It finally answered:

You, my queen, are fairest of all.

Then her cruel and jealous heart was at rest, as well as a cruel and jealous heart can be at rest.

When the dwarves came home that evening they found Snow White lying on the ground. She was not breathing at all. She was dead. They lifted her up and looked at her longingly. They talked to her, shook her and wept over her. But nothing helped. The dear child was dead, and she remained dead. They laid her on a bed of straw, and all seven sat next to her and mourned for her and cried for three days. They were going to bury her, but she still looked as fresh as a living person, and still had her beautiful red cheeks.

They said, "We cannot bury her in the black earth," and they had a transparent glass coffin made, so she could be seen from all sides. They laid her inside, and with golden letters wrote on it her name, and that she was a princess. Then they put the coffin outside on a mountain, and one of them always stayed with it and watched over her. The animals too came and mourned for Snow White, first an owl, then a raven, and finally a dove.

Now it came to pass that a prince entered these woods and happened onto the dwarves' house, where he sought shelter for the night . He saw the coffin on the mountain with beautiful Snow White in it, and he read what was written on it with golden letters.

Then he said to the dwarves, "Let me have the coffin. I will give you anything you want for it."

But the dwarves answered, "We will not sell it for all the gold in the world."

Then he said, "Then give it to me, for I cannot live without being able to see Snow White. I will honor her and respect her as my most cherished one."

As he thus spoke, the good dwarves felt pity for him and gave him the coffin. The prince had his servants carry it away on their shoulders. But then it happened that one of them stumbled on some brush, and this dislodged from Snow White's throat the piece of poisoned apple that she had bitten off. Not long afterward she opened her eyes, lifted the lid from her coffin, sat up, and was alive again.

"Good heavens, where am I?" she cried out.

The prince said joyfully, "You are with me." He told her what had happened, and then said, "I love you more than anything else in the world. Come with me to my father's castle. You shall become my wife." Snow White loved him, and she went with him. Their wedding was planned with great splendor and majesty.

Snow White's wicked step-mother was invited to the feast, and when she had arrayed herself in her most beautiful garments, she stood before her mirror, and said:

Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Who in this land is fairest of all?

The mirror answered:

You, my queen, are fair; it is true.
But the young queen is a thousand times fairer than you.

Not knowing that this new queen was indeed her stepdaughter, she arrived at the wedding, and her heart filled with the deepest of dread when she realized the truth - the evil queen was banished from the land forever and the prince and Snow White lived happily ever after.