LITTLE SNOW WHITE.

Ore upon a time a Queen sat by the window with an
ebony frame in her hand, doing some fine embroidery.
It was snowing, and she pricked her
finger, and as the drops of blood fell
on the snow, she thought to herself,
“Oh, if I could only have a child
as white as snow, as red as blood,
and as black as this ebony frame!”
Not long afterwards a daughter was
' born to her whose skin was snow
. white, whose lips were blood red,
and whose hair was black as night,
-She was named Snow White; and
‘when the child was born the mother
died.
In about a year the King married
i again, and his wife was very beautiful,
)} but very vain. Every day her mirror
THE eee sAIp so, told her that she was the loveliest

    
    

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