Rose-red

Rose-red screamed aloud and sprang back in terror, the lamb began to bleat, the dove flapped its wings, and

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Shortly after this Snow-white and Rose-red went out to get a dish of fish.

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“Rose-red, open the door quickly; it must be some traveler seeking shelter.”

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Rose-red loved to run about the fields and meadows, and to pick flowers and catch butterflies; but Snow-white sat at home with her mother and helped her in the household, or read aloud to her when there was no work to do.

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In summer Rose-red looked after the house, and every morning before her mother awoke she placed a bunch of flowers before the bed, from each tree a rose.

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“What were you doing, little man?” asked Rose-red.

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She had two children, who were just like the two rose trees; one was called Snow-white and the other Rose-red, and they were the sweetest and best children in the world, always diligent and always cheerful; but Snow-white was quieter and more gentle than Rose-red.

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“We will never desert each other,” Rose-red answered:

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Rose-red hastened to unbar the door, and thought she saw a poor man standing in the darkness outside; but it was no such thing, only a bear, who poked his thick black head through the door.

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Snow-white married him, and Rose-red his brother, and they divided the great treasure the dwarf had collected in his cave between them.

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