“And now Snow-white lay a long, long time in the coffin, and she did not change, but looked as if she were asleep ; for she was as white as snow, as red as blood, and her hair was as black as ebonj'-. It happened, however, that a king's son came into the forest, and went to the dwarfs' house to spend the night. He saw the coffin on the mountain, and the beautiful Snow- white within it, and read what was written upon it in golden letters.”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 53 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan