ONCE upon a time, a king and a queen had a little daughter, who was as white as snow, and with cheeks as red as blood, and with hair as black as ebony, and from this she was named "Snow-White." But her mother died, and about a year afterwards the King married another woman, who was very beautiful, but so proud and haughty that she could not bear anyone to be better-looking than herself. She owned a wonderful mirror, and when she asked it: "Mirror, mirror on the wall,
Who is the most beautiful of us all?" it replied: "The Queen is the most beautiful of the day." Then she was pleased, for she knew that the mirror spoke truly. Little Snow-White, however, grew up, and became prettier and prettier, and when she was seventeen years old she was more beautiful than the Queen herself. When the Queen now asked her mirror: "Mirror, mirror on the wall,
Who is the most beautiful of us all?" it replied: "The Queen was the most beautiful yesterday;
Snow-White is the most beautiful now." This answer so angered the Queen that she became quite yellow with envy. From that hour, her envy and jealousy increased so that she had no rest day or night, and she said to a Huntsman, "Take Snow white away into the forest. You must kill her, and bring me her heart for a token." The Huntsman took the girl away, but when he drew out his knife to kill her, she began to cry,...PRESS PLAY TO LISTEN TO THE TALE