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 by each plate was a little spoon; there were seven
little knives and forks, and seven little mugs. Against the wall stood
seven little beds side by side, covered with snow-white coverlets.
Little Snow-white was so hungry and thirsty that she ate some fruit
and bread from each plate, and drank a drop of milk out of each mug,
for she did not wish to take all from one only. Then, as she was so
tired, she lay down on one of the little beds, but none of them suited
her; one was too long, another too short; but at last she found the
seventh one was just right, and so she stayed in it, said her prayers,
and went to sleep.
When it was quite dark the owners of the cottage came back; they
were seven dwarfs who dug in the hills for gold. They lit their seven
candles, and as it was now light within the cottage they could see
that some one had been there, for everything was not in the same order
in which they had left it.
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