Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Chapter 1

Once upon a time, on a cold winter's day, as the snowflakes were falling softly and swiftly, a Queen sat sewing by her window. As she looked out, the snow scene was framed, like a picture, by the black ebony of the window frame.

As she sewed, the Queen pricked her finger and three drops of blood fell upon her sewing. The red of the blood, against the white of the snow, framed by the black wood of the window frame, looked so beautiful that she tought, "Oh how I wish I could have a child as white as snow, as red as blood and as black as ebony!"

Now it happened that some time afterwards the Queen did have a baby daughter whose skin was as white as snow, whose cheeks were bright red and whose hair was as black as ebony. The Queen called her little girl Snow White.