At last, the huntsman said, ‘Listen, Snow White. The Queen said that I must kill you. But I can’t do it. Run, Snow White! Run far away into the forest. And do not come back to the castle’ Then the huntsman killed a deer and took its heart. ‘Iwill take this deer’s heart back to the Queen,’ he thought. ‘And I will tell her that Snow White is dead.’

Snow White was alone and lost. She ran through the forest. She ran all day. Now it was late and she was afraid. The forest was full of strange noises. She knew that there were wild animals there, but they did not come near her. At Last, Snow White came out of the forest. She saw a mountain, and at the foot of the mountain she saw a little house.

‘I'll go and knock on the door,’ she thought. ‘Then perhaps a kind person will help me. ‘Hello!’ she called. But there was no answer. It was almost dark now, so she opened the door. Inside, the furniture was very small, and there were seven of everything: seven Little chairs and seven little beds. There were seven little cups on the table, and seven plates of food. ‘Perhaps seven little children live here,’ thought Snow White. ‘But where are they?”

Snow White was very hungry, but she didn’t want to take some-one’s dinner. So she ate a Little from each plate, and she drank a Little from each cup. Then she went upstairs and fell asleep on three of the little beds. The house belonged to seven dwarfs. Every day the dwarfs went to the mountain and looked for gold. That night they finished their work and came home. ‘Someone has eaten from our plates and drunk from our cups,’ said one. ‘Perhaps it was a mouse,’ laughed the others. ‘Come on! Let’s take off our boots and sit down to eat.’ Then the youngest dwarf called from upstairs, ‘Come quickly, everybody. Come and see. There is a young girl asleep on our beds. She is very beautiful’

All the other dwarfs ran upstairs. ‘Yes, she is very beautifull’ they said. ‘Shhh! Don’t wake her. So that night they all slept downstairs by the fire. In the morning, Snow White told them her story. ‘Stay here with us,’ said the dwarfs. ‘The Queen is a very dangerous woman. You can never go back to your castle now. ‘Yes,’ said the oldest dwarf. ‘Stay. Please stay.’ ‘Thank you,’ said Snow White. ‘You are all very kind.’

So Snow White stayed and lived with the seven dwarfs. She cooked and cleaned and washed for them, and they were kind to her. Every morning the dwarfs went to the mountain to look for gold. ‘Be careful, Snow White,’ they said when they left. ‘The Queen is a very dangerous woman. She must not know that you are here. Don’t leave the house and do not open the door to anyone.’ ‘The Queen will never find me,’ said Snow White. ‘She thinks that I am dead.

The Queen did not speak to her magic mirror for along time. But one day, she stood in front of itand asked: Mirror, mirror, on the wall, Who is the most beautiful of all?’ And the mirror answered: ‘You, Queen, are beautiful, it’s true. But there is one more beautiful than you. Snow White's not dead, she’s living still, In a house in the forest over the hill. And although you are beautiful, it’s true, Snow White is more beautiful than you.’ ‘What?’ said the Queen. ‘She’s not dead? I'LL kill the huntsman! And I'll kill Snow White too, when I find her.

Then the Queen dressed as an old woman. She put some ribbons in a basket and Left the castle secretly. ‘Snow White will not know that it’s me,’ she Laughed. She walked quickly through the forest until she came to the Little house at the foot of the mountain. ‘Hello,’ she called. ‘Is anyone in?’ Snow White Looked out of the window. ‘What do you want?’ she asked. ‘Would you like to buy some ribbons, my dear?’ said the old woman.