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Updated: May 21, 2025
And she remained there for days and days without changing the slightest, looking oh, so beautiful under the glass case. Now a great prince of the neighbouring country happened to be hunting near the hill of the dwarfs and called at their hut to get a glass of water. And when he came in he found nobody there but Snowwhite lying in her crystal coffer.
So when Snowwhite came to the window the Queen said: "Oh, what beautiful black hair; you ought to have a comb to bind it up;" and she showed her the comb that she had brought with her. But Snowwhite said: "I have no money and cannot afford to buy so fine a comb." Then the Queen said: "That is no matter; perhaps you have something golden that you can give me in exchange."
to which the mirror replied, without any change: "Queen, Queen, on thy throne, Snowwhite's the fairest thou must own." And the Queen recognized that once again her plans had failed, and Snowwhite was still alive. So she dressed herself once more and took with her a poisoned apple, which was so arranged that only one half of it was poisoned and the rest of it was left as before.
That evening the dwarfs came home and found Snowwhite lying on the ground as if dead, but soon discovered the poisoned ribbon and untied it; and almost as soon as this was done Snowwhite revived again. Next morning the Queen went once more to the mirror on the wall, and called out: "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, Who is the fairest of us all?"
The Taj Mahal stands, as I have already told you, at the bottom of a lovely garden surrounded by groves of cypress trees, on the bank of the River Jumna, opposite the great fortress of Agra, where, from the windows of his palace, the king could always see the snowwhite domes and minarets which cover the ashes of his Arab wife.
And when the Queen got to the hut of the dwarfs she tried to open the door, but Snowwhite called out: "You can't come in!" "Then I'll come to the window," said the Queen. "Ah, you are the old lady that came twice before; you have not brought me good luck, each time something has befallen me."
When we cleared the harbour it was fine and serene, but about noon it came on to blow violently from the northeast. All this while we were coasting it along about pistol shot from the white coral beach, with the clear light green swell on our right hand, and beyond it the dark and stormy waters of the blue rolling ocean; and the snowwhite roaring surf on our left.
And the Queen knew that Snowwhite had not been slain. So she sent for the hunter and made him confess that he had let Snowwhite go; and she made him search about beyond the forest, till at last he brought back word to her that Snowwhite was dwelling in a little hut on the hill with some coal-miners.
It was a well-grown maiden that he saw, moving round, snowwhite arms; and he could have sworn that she had only thin, childish arms, for she had thrown them round his neck many a time when she had ridden up and down the garden on his back, calling him her fine horse. How long ago was that? Ten years! She was now seventeen!
And the mirror always used to reply: "Queen, Queen, on thy throne, The greatest beauty is thine own." But Snowwhite grew fairer and fairer every year, till at last one day when the Queen in the morning spoke to her mirror and said: "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, Who is the fairest of us all?" the mirror replied: "Queen, Queen, on thy throne, Snowwhite's the fairest thou must own."
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