SNOW-WHITE

AND ROSE-RED
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There was once a poor widow who lived in a lonely cottage. In front of the cottage
was a garden wherein stood two rose-trees, one of which bore white and the other red
roses. She had two children who were like the two rose-trees, and one was called
Snow White, and the other Rose Red. They were as good and happy, as busy and
cheerful as ever two children in the world were, only Snow White was more quiet and
gentle than Rose Red. Rose Red liked better to run about in the meadows and fields
seeking flowers and catching butterflies; but Snow White sat at home with her mother,
and helped her with her housework, or read to her when there was nothing to do.

The two children were so fond of one another that they always held each other by the
hand when they went out together, and when Snow White said: 'We will not leave
each other,' Rose Red answered: 'Never so long as we live,' and their mother would
add: 'What one has she must share with the other.'

They often ran about the forest alone and gathered red berries, and no beasts did them
any harm, but came close to them trustfully. The little hare would eat a cabbage-leaf
out of their hands, the roe grazed by their side, the stag leapt merrily by them, and the
birds sat still upon the boughs, and sang whatever they knew.

No mishap overtook them; if they had stayed too late in the forest, and night came on,
they laid themselves down near one another upon the moss, and slept until morning
came, and their mother knew this and did not worry on their account.

Once when they had spent the night in the wood and the dawn had roused them, they
saw a beautiful child in a shining white dress sitting near their bed. He got up and
looked quite kindly at them, but said nothing and went into the forest. And when they
looked round they found that they had been sleeping quite close to a precipice, and
would certainly have fallen into it in the darkness if they had gone only a few paces
further. And their mother told them that it must have been the angel who watches over
good children.

Snow White and Rose Red kept their mother's little cottage so neat that it was a
pleasure to look inside it. In the summer Rose Red took care of the house, and every
morning laid a wreath of flowers by her mother's bed before she awoke, in which was
a rose from each tree. In the winter Snow White lit the fire and hung the kettle on the

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hob. The kettle was of brass and shone like gold, so brightly was it polished. In the
evening, when the snowflakes fell, the mother said: 'Go, Snow White, and bolt the
door,' and then they sat round the hearth, and the mother took her spectacles and read
aloud out of a large book, and the two girls listened as they sat and spun. And close by
them lay a lamb upon the floor, and behind them upon a perch sat a white dove with
its head hidden beneath its wings.

One evening, as they were thus sitting comfortably together, someone knocked at the
door as if he wished to be let in. The mother said: 'Quick, Rose Red, open the door, it
must be a traveller who is seeking shelter.' Rose Red went and pushed back the bolt,
thinking that it was a poor man, but it was not; it was a bear that stretched his broad,
black head within the door.

Rose Red screamed and sprang back, the lamb bleated, the dove fluttered, and Snow
White hid herself 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 half-frozen, and only want to warm myself a
little beside you.'

'Poor bear,' said the mother, 'lie down by the fire, only take care that you do not burn
your coat.' Then she cried: 'Snow White,
Henceforth the bear came
Rose Red, come out, the bear will do you no
every evening at the same time,
harm, he means well.' So they both came out,
laid himself down by the
and by-and-by the lamb and dove came nearer,
hearth, and let the children
and were not afraid of him. The bear said:
amuse themselves with him as
'Here, children, knock the snow out of my
much as they liked; and they
coat a little'; so they brought the broom and
got so used to him that the
swept the bear's hide clean; and he stretched
doors were never fastened until
himself by the fire and growled contentedly
their black friend had arrived.
and comfortably. It was not long before they
grew quite at home, and played tricks with their
clumsy guest. They tugged his hair with their hands, put their feet upon his back and
rolled him about, or they took a hazel-switch and beat him, and when he growled they
laughed. But the bear took it all in good part, only when they were too rough he called

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out: 'Leave me alive, children, Snow White, Rose Red, will you beat your wooer
dead?'

When it was bed-time, and the others went to bed, the mother said to the bear: '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 the two children let him out, and he trotted across
the snow into the forest.

Henceforth the bear came every evening at the same time, laid himself down by the
hearth, and let the children amuse themselves with him as much as they liked; and
they got so used to him that the doors were never fastened until their black friend had
arrived.

When spring had come and all outside was green, the bear said one morning to Snow
White: 'Now I must go away, and cannot come back for the whole summer.' 'Where
are you going, then, dear bear?' asked Snow White. 'I must go into the forest and
guard my treasures from the wicked dwarfs. In the winter, when the earth is frozen
hard, they are obliged to stay below and cannot work their way through; but now,
when the sun has thawed and warmed the earth, they break through it, and come out to
pry and steal; and what once gets into their hands, and in their caves, does not easily
see daylight again.'

Snow White was quite sorry at his departure, and as she unbolted the door for him,
and the bear was hurrying out, he caught 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 shining through it,
but she was not sure about it. The bear ran away quickly, and was soon out of sight
behind the trees.

A short time afterwards the mother sent her children into the forest to get firewood.
There they found a big tree which lay felled on the ground, and close by the trunk
something was jumping backwards and forwards in the grass, but they could not make
out what it was. When they came nearer they saw a dwarf with an old withered face
and a snow-white beard a yard long. The end of the beard was caught in a crevice of
the tree, and the little fellow was jumping about like a dog tied to a rope, and did not
know what to do.

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He glared at the girls with his fiery red eyes and cried: 'Why do you stand there? Can
you not come here and help me?' 'What are you up to, little man?' asked Rose Red.
'You stupid, prying goose!' answered the dwarf: 'I was going to split the tree to get a
little wood for cooking. The little bit of food that we people get is immediately burnt
up with heavy logs; we do not swallow so much as you coarse, greedy folk. I had just
driven the wedge safely in, and everything was going as I wished; but the cursed
wedge was too smooth and suddenly sprang out, and the tree closed so quickly that I
could not pull out my beautiful white beard; so now it is tight and I cannot get away,
and the silly, sleek, milk-faced things laugh! Ugh! How odious you are!'

The children tried very hard,

but they could not pull the
beard out, it was caught too
fast. 'I will run Henceforth the bear came every evening at and fetch
the same time, laid himself down by the
someone,' said Rose Red.
hearth, and let the children amuse
'You senseless themselves with him as much as they liked; goose!' snarled
and they got so used to him that the doors
the dwarf; 'why should
were never fastened until their black friend
you fetch had arrived. someone? You
are already two too many for
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me; can you not think of
something better?' 'Don't
be impatient,' said Snow
White, 'I will help you,' and she pulled her scissors out of her pocket, and cut off the
end of the beard.

Henceforth the bear came every evening at the same time, laid himself down by the
hearth, and let the children amuse themselves with him as much as they liked; and
they got so used to him that the doors were never fastened until their black friend had
arrived.

Some time afterwards Snow White and Rose Red went to catch a dish of fish. As they
came near the brook they saw something like a large grasshopper jumping towards the
water, as if it were going to leap in. They ran to it and found it was the dwarf. 'Where

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are you going?' said Rose Red; 'you surely don't want to go

[Sidebar Title] into the water?' 'I am not such a fool!' cried the dwarf; 'don't
you see that the accursed fish wants to pull me in?' The little
The children, full of man had been sitting there fishing, and unluckily the wind had
pity, at once took
tight hold of the tangled up his beard with the fishing-line; a moment later a big
little man, and fish made a bite and the feeble creature had not strength to pull
pulled against the
eagle so long that at it out; the fish kept the upper hand and pulled the dwarf
last he let his booty towards him. He held on to all the reeds and rushes, but it was
go. As soon as the
dwarf had of little good, for he was forced to follow the movements of the
recovered from his fish, and was in urgent danger of being dragged into the water.
first fright he cried
with his shrill The girls came just in time; they held him fast and tried to free
voice: 'Could you
not have done it his beard from the line, but all in vain, beard and line were
more carefully! entangled fast together. There was nothing to do but to bring
You dragged at my
brown coat so that out the scissors and cut the beard, whereby a small part of it
it is all torn and full was lost. When the dwarf saw that he screamed out: 'Is that
of holes, you
clumsy creatures!' civil, you toadstool, to disfigure a man's face? Was it not
Then he took up a enough to clip off the end of my beard? Now you have cut off
sack full of
precious stones, the best part of it. I cannot let myself be seen by my people. I
and slipped away wish you had been made to run the soles off your shoes!' Then
again under the
rock into his hole. he took out a sack of pearls which lay in the rushes, and
The girls, who by without another word he dragged it away and disappeared
this time were used
to his ingratitude, behind a stone.
went on their way
and did their It happened that soon afterwards the mother sent the two
business in town. children to the town to buy needles and thread, and laces and
ribbons. The road led them across a heath upon which huge
pieces of rock lay strewn about. There they noticed a large bird
hovering in the air, flying slowly round and round above them;
it sank lower and lower, and at last settled near a rock not far
away. Immediately they heard a loud, piteous cry. They ran up

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and saw with horror that the eagle had seized their old
[Sidebar Title] acquaintance the dwarf, and was going to carry him off.

The children, full of pity, at once took tight hold of the

The girls had run
away, but the bear little man, and pulled against the eagle so long that at last
called to them: 'Snow he let his booty go. As soon as the dwarf had recovered
White and Rose Red,
do not be afraid; wait, from his first fright he cried with his shrill voice: 'Could
I will come with you.' you not have done it more carefully! You dragged at my
Then they recognized
his voice and waited, brown coat so that it is all torn and full of holes, you
and when he came up clumsy creatures!' Then he took up a sack full of precious
to them suddenly his
bearskin fell off, and stones, and slipped away again under the rock into his
he stood there a hole. The girls, who by this time were used to his
handsome man,
clothed all in gold. 'I ingratitude, went on their way and did their business in
am a king's son,' he town.
said, 'and I was
bewitched by that As they crossed the heath again on their way home they
wicked dwarf, who
had stolen my surprised the dwarf, who had emptied out his bag of
treasures; I have had to precious stones in a clean spot, and had not thought that
run about the forest as
a savage bear until I anyone would come there so late. The evening sun shone
was freed by his death. upon the brilliant stones; they glittered and sparkled with
Now he has got his
well-deserved all colours so beautifully that the children stood still and
punishment. stared at them. 'Why do you stand gaping there?' cried the
Snow White was
married to him, and dwarf, and his ashen-grey face became copper-red with
Rose Red to his rage. He was still cursing when a loud growling was heard,
brother, and they
divided between them and a black bear came trotting towards them out of the
the great treasure forest. The dwarf sprang up in a fright, but he could not
which the dwarf had
gathered together in reach his cave, for the bear was already close. Then in the
his cave. The old dread of his heart he cried: 'Dear Mr Bear, spare me, I will
mother lived
peacefully and happily give you all my treasures; look, the beautiful jewels lying
with her children for there! Grant me my life; what do you want with such a
many years. She took
the two rose-trees with slender little fellow as I? You would not feel me between
her, and they stood your teeth. Come, take these two wicked girls, they are
before her window,
and every year bore
the most beautiful
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tender morsels for you, fat as young quails; for mercy's
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The Brothers Grimm, Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm
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content, just click here and start
typing.] the German state of Hesse. Throughout their lives they
remained close friends, and both studied law at
Marburg University. Jacob was a pioneer in the study of
German philology, and although Wilhelm's work was
hampered by poor health the brothers collaborated in
the creation of a German dictionary, not completed
until a century after their deaths. But they were best
(and universally) known for the collection of over two
hundred folk tales they made from oral sources and
published in two volumes of 'Nursery and Household
Tales' in 1812 and 1814. Although their intention was to
preserve such material as part of German cultural and
literary history, and their collection was first published
with scholarly notes and no illustration, the tales soon
came into the possession of young readers. This was in
part due to Edgar Taylor, who made the first English
translation in 1823, selecting about fifty stories 'with the
amusement of some young friends principally in view.'
They have been an essential ingredient of children's
reading ever since.

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