They lifted her up, and, as they saw that she was laced too tightly,
they cut the laces; then she began to breathe a little, and after a
while came to life again. When the dwarfs heard what had happened
they said:
"The old peddler-woman was no one else than the wicked Queen; take
care and let no one come in when we are not with you."
But the wicked woman, when she was at home again, went in front of the
Glass and asked:
"Looking-glass, Looking-glass, on the wall,
Who in this land is the fairest of all?"
And it answered as before:
"O Queen, thou art fairest of all I see,
But over the hills, where the seven dwarfs dwell,
Snow-white is still alive and well,
And no one else is so fair as she."
When she heard that, all her blood rushed to her heart with fear, for
she saw plainly that little Snow-white was again alive.
"But now," she said, "I will think of something that shall put an end
to you," and so she made a comb that was full of poison. Then she took
the shape of another old woman. So she went over the seven hills to
the seven dwarfs, knocked at the door, and cried, "Good things to
sell, cheap, cheap!" Little Snow-white looked out and said:
"Go away; I cannot let any one come in.
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