Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Chapter 13

Snow White opened the door and the woman brought her basket into the cottage. Snow White chose some pretty pink laces for her stays.

The old woman offered to lace up Snow White's corset, properly, with the new laces. Snow White, suspecting nothing, agreed. Then the Queen laced her so tightly that the child could not breathe, and she fell on the floor as if she were dead.

In the evening, when the dwarfs returned home, they were shocked to find their beloved Snow White lying on the floor as if she were dead. They lifted her up tenderly and, when they saw how tightly she was laced, they cut the new laces. Soon she began to breathe again and gradually the color returned to her cheeks.

When the dwarfs heard about the pedlar woman, they were convinced that she must have been Snow White's wicked stepmother.