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e HT 119 {HH | KA * SNOW-WHITE T was the middle of winter, and the snow-flakes were falling like feathers from the sky, and a queen sat at her window working, and her embroideryframe was of ebony. And as she worked, gazing at times out on the snow, she pricked her finger, and there fell from it three drops of blood on the snow. And when she saw how bnght and red it looked, she said to herself, “Oh that I had a wood of the embroidery frame! ” Not very long after she had a daughter, with a skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony, and she was named Snow-white. And when she was born the After a year had gone by the king took another wife, a magic looking-glass, and she used to stand before it, and "c Looking-glass upon the wall, Who is fairest of us all?” And the looking-glass would answer, cc You are fairest of them all," And she was contented, for she knew that the lookingglass spoke the truth. :
