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I . Three Drops of Blood It is winter . It is very cold . Snow falls from the sky like white feathers . The fields , the roads and the trees are all white . In a land far away there is a castle . A king and a queen live in the castle . The queen is young , kind and very pretty . One day , the queen sits at a window . The window is open . Its frame is made of ebony . Ebony is a very black wood . The queen is sewing . From time to time , she looks at the snow . It falls slowly and quietly . Then the queen pricks her finger with the needle . “ Oh ! ” she says . Three drops of blood fall from her finger . They fall onto the snow outside the window . They are three small red drops . The queen looks at the drops . The red on the white is very pretty . And next to it is the black of the window . The queen thinks for a moment . Then she says quietly : “ I want a little girl like this . As white as snow , as red as blood , and as black as the wood of this window . ” Time passes . And one day , the queen has a baby girl . The baby is just what her mother wanted . Her skin is as white as snow . Her cheeks are as red as blood . And her hair is as black as ebony . The queen looks at her little girl and smiles . “ White as snow , ” she says . “ Your name is Snow White . ” But the queen does not live long . Soon after the baby is born , she dies . The king cries and cries . And little Snow White has no mother now . A year later , the king takes a new wife . Now she is the queen . The new queen is very beautiful . But she is also very proud . She thinks only about her face . She does not want to see a woman more beautiful than her . The queen has a magic mirror . The mirror can talk . And it always tells the truth . Every morning , the queen stands in front of the mirror . She looks at her face for a long time . Then she asks : “ Mirror , mirror on the wall , who is the most beautiful of all ? ” And the mirror always answers : “ You , my queen . You are the most beautiful in the land . ” Then the queen smiles . She is happy , because the mirror never lies . II . The Huntsman The years go by . Snow White grows . Every day she is prettier . And she is kind and happy too . When she is seven years old , she is as lovely as the day . Now she is more beautiful than the queen . Everyone in the castle loves the little princess . Only the queen does not love her . One morning , the queen goes to her mirror , as always . She looks at her face and asks : “ Mirror , mirror on the wall , who is the most beautiful of all ? ” But this time the mirror says something new :
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