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Enchanted
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When the little Dwarfs came home in the evening they found Snow White lying on the ground, and she neither breathed nor stirred. They lifted her up, and looked round everywhere to see if they could find anything poisonous about. They unlaced her bodice, combed her hair, washed her with water and wine, but all in vain; this time, she was dead and remained dead.
Then they placed her on a bier, and all the seven Dwarfs sat round it, weeping and sobbing for three whole days. At last they made up their minds to bury her, but her cheeks were still rosy; and her face looked just as it did while she was alive; so they said:
"We can't hide her away in the cold black ground."
So they had a coffin made of transparent glass, so that they might still look at her, and they laid her in it, and wrote on the lid in golden letters that she was a royal Princess.
Then they put the coffin on the top of the hill, and one of the Dwarfs always remained beside it and kept watch over it. And the very birds of the air came and bewailed Snow White's death, first an owl, and then a raven, and last of all a little dove.
Snow White lay a long time in the coffin, and she always looked the same, just as if she were fast asleep, and she remained as white as snow, as red as blood, and her hair as black as ebony.
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