Snow-White And Rose-RedThis is the story of Snow-White and Rose-Red, and you will find it to be a real charmer. It is not as famous as some of the other Fairytales.
The widow had two daughters one named Snow-White who was quiet and gentle and enjoyed helping her mother. The other named Rose-Red was a little more adventurous and loved to play in the fields chasing butterflies. Snow-White And Rose-Red were very close and held hands whenever they went out. In fact Snow-White said “We will not leave each other”, and Rose-Red answered “Never so long as we live” Their mother would always agree “What one has she must share with the other” The girls were allowed to wander in the woods together, and the animals never hurt them, in fact danced in their midst. Sometimes Snow-White And Rose-Red would even sleep out under a tree in some soft moss, and their mother knew they were safe. After sleeping out one night they woke to see a beautiful child smiling sweetly at them. The child was bathed in a beautiful light. After a moment the child disappeared into the woods. When Snow-White And Rose-Red looked about at where they had slept, they had been dangerously close to a cliff. When they told their mother she said it must have been a Guardian Angel who watches over good children. The girls were very helpful to their mother and spent quiet years living together in harmony. One winter evening while their mother was reading to them from a large book, someone knocked at the door. Rose-Red answered the door, thinking it might be a person needing to warm by the fire. It was not! As she opened the door a giant bear stuck his head in the small cottage. Snow-White And Rose-Red hid in fright, but the bear began to speak and said: “Do not be afraid, I will do you no harm! I am half frozen, and only want to warm myself a little beside you.”
They teased him and played with his hair, and the bear was very patient. They invited the bear to sleep over and let them out into the forest in the morning. For the rest of the winter the bear would visit every night. Snow-White And Rose-Red enjoyed the winter with their new friend. When the spring came the bear told the little family that he must leave and go back to the woods, explaining that he must protect his treasures against the evil thieving dwarves who live in the woods. They were surprised at his words. One day in the woods the girls bumped into a small dwarf with a long white beard. The end of his beard was caught in a crevice of the tree, and the little fellow was jumping about like a dog tied to a rope, and did not know what to do. They stared at him and he glared at the girls with his fiery red eyes and cried: “Why do you stand there? Can you not come here and help me?”
Rose-Red said she would go fetch someone to help. “You senseless goose!” snarled the dwarf: “Why should you fetch someone? You are already two too many for me; can you not think of something better? Snow-White said I will help you, and pulled out a pair of scissors and cut off the end of the beard. As soon as the dwarf was free he grabbed hold of his bag which lay amongst the roots of the tree, and which was full of gold, and lifted it up, grumbling to himself” “Uncouth people, to cut off a piece of my fine beard. Bad luck to you!” and then he swung the bag upon his back, and went off without even once looking at the children. Another day, the girls went fishing and found the little Dwarf with his fine white beard all tangled in the fishing line, and a great big fish almost pulling him into the water. They tried to untangle his beard, and finally brought out the scissors again, cutting him loose. The dwarf picked up another bag, this time full of pearls, complaining that they had cut off more of his beard. Later on their way home in the evening, Snow-White And Rose-Red again came upon the dwarf, and he had poured out his bag of beautiful jewels. They glittered in the evening light. The girls stood there gazing at the beautiful stones. The dwarf yelled at them asking “What are you gaping at?” The girls did not know what to say. Suddenly, they all heard a great black bear come crashing out of the bush, and he approached the dwarf. The dwarf in dread cried: “Dear Mr. Bear, spare me, I will give you all my treasures; look, the beautiful jewels lying there! Grant me my life; what do you want with such a slender little fellow as I? Take these two wicked girls, they are tender morsels for you – eat them!” The bear took no heed of his words, but gave the wicked creature a single blow with his paw, and he did not move again. The girls had run away in fear, but the bear called to them: “Snow-White And Rose-Red, do not be afraid; wait, I will come with you.” Then they recognized his voice and waited, and when he came up to them suddenly his bearskin fell off, and he stood there a handsome man, clothed all in gold. “I am really a prince”, he said, “and was bewitched by that wicked dwarf, who had stolen my treasures; I have had to run about the forest as a savage bear until I was freed by his death. Now he has got his well-deserved punishment. Snow-White married him later, and Rose-Red married his brother, and they divided the great treasure which the dwarf had gathered in his cave. The old mother lived peacefully and happily with her children for many years. She took the two rose-trees with her, and they stood before her window, and every year bore the most beautiful roses, white and red.
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