Snow white story for kids
Once upon a time in the middle of winter, when the flakes of
snow were falling like feathers from the sky, a queen sat at a window sewing,
and the frame of the window was made of black ebony. And whilst she was sewing and looking out of
the window at the snow, she pricked her finger with the needle, and three drops
of blood fell upon the snow. And the red
looked pretty upon the white snow, and she thought to herself, would that I had
a child as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as the wood of the
window-frame.
Soon after that she had a little daughter, who was as white
as snow, and as red as blood, and her hair was as black as ebony, and she was
therefore called little snow-white. And
when the child was born, the queen died. After a year had passed the king took
to himself another wife. She was a beautiful woman, but proud and haughty, and
she could not bear that anyone else could surpass her in beauty. She had a wonderful looking-glass, and when
she stood in front of it and looked at herself in it, and said, looking-glass, looking-glass, on the wall,
who in this land is the fairest of all.
And as she was so beautiful the huntsman had pity on her and
said, run away, then, you poor child.
The wild beasts will soon have devoured you, thought he, and yet it
seemed as if a stone had been rolled from his heart since it was no longer
needful for him to kill her. And as a
young bear just then came running by he stabbed it, and cut out its lung and
liver and took them to the queen as proof that the child was dead. The cook had to salt them, and the wicked
queen ate them, and thought she had eaten the lung and liver of snow-white.
She ran as long as her feet would go until it was almost
evening, then she saw a little cottage and went into it to rest herself. Everything
in the cottage was small, but neater and cleaner than can be told. There was a table on which was a white cover,
and seven little plates, and on each plate a little spoon, moreover, there were
seven little knives and forks, and seven little mugs .Against the wall stood
seven little beds side by side, and covered with snow-white counterpanes.
When it was morning little snow-white awoke, and was
frightened when she saw the seven dwarfs.
But they were friendly and asked her what her name was. My name is snow-white, she answered. How you
have come to our house, said the dwarfs.
Then she told them that her step-mother had wished to have her killed,
but that the huntsman had spared her life, and that she had run for the whole
day, until at last she had found their dwelling.