She ran as long as her feet would carry her and when the evening drew near she came to a little house and she went inside to rest.

Everything there was very small, but as pretty and clean as possible.  There stood the little table ready laid and covered with a white cloth, and seven little plates, and seven knives and forks, and drinking cups.  By the wall stood seven little beds, side by side, covered with clean white quilts.  Snow-White, being very hungry and thirsty, ate from each plate a little porridge and bread, and drank out of each little cup a drop of wine, so as not to finish up one portion alone.  After that she felt so tired that she lay down on one of the beds, but it did not seem to suit her;  one was too long, another too short, but at last the seventh was quite right;  and so she lay down upon it, committed herself to heaven, and fell asleep.

  

 

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