1 As soon as day dawned the two children let him out, and he trotted across the snow into the forest.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED 2 A month passed, and the snow had all disappeared; then another month went by, and all the earth was green.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE JUNIPER-TREE 3 On one side the finest flowers were in full bloom, and on the other everything looked dreary and buried in the snow.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In LILY AND THE LION 4 He now had a little daughter born to him; the child of his first wife was a boy, who was as red as blood and as white as snow.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE JUNIPER-TREE 5 One winter's day the wife stood under the tree to peel some apples, and as she was peeling them, she cut her finger, and the blood fell on the snow.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE JUNIPER-TREE 6 It was the middle of winter, when the broad flakes of snow were falling around, that the queen of a country many thousand miles off sat working at her window.
7 The frame of the window was made of fine black ebony, and as she sat looking out upon the snow, she pricked her finger, and three drops of blood fell upon it.
8 And thus Snowdrop lay for a long, long time, and still only looked as though she was asleep; for she was even now as white as snow, and as red as blood, and as black as ebony.
9 And the snow fell and spread a beautiful white covering over the grave; but by the time the spring came, and the sun had melted it away again, her father had married another wife.
10 Then she felt comforted and happy again, and before another month had passed she had a little child, and when she saw that it was as white as snow and as red as blood, her joy was so great that she died.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE JUNIPER-TREE 11 'Ah,' sighed the woman heavily, 'if I had but a child, as red as blood and as white as snow,' and as she spoke the words, her heart grew light within her, and it seemed to her that her wish was granted, and she returned to the house feeling glad and comforted.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE JUNIPER-TREE 12 And when the time came for him to go home, he had bought pearls and jewels for the two eldest, but he had sought everywhere in vain for the rose; and when he went into any garden and asked for such a thing, the people laughed at him, and asked him whether he thought roses grew in snow.
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