episode 2
But this queen died: and the king soon married another wife who was very beautiful, but so proud that she could surpass her.
She had a magical looking-grass, to which she used to go and gaze upon herself in it, and say-
“Tell me glass, tell me true! Of all the ladies in the land, Who is fairest? Tell me who?”
And the glass answered,
“Thou, Queen, thou are fairest in the land.”
But Snow White grew more and more beautiful and when she was thirteen years old, she was as bright as the day, and fairer than the queen herself.
Then the glass one day, answered queen, when she went to consult it as usual-
“Thou, Queen, may’st fair and beauteous be. But Snow White is lovelier far than thee?”
When the queen heard this she turned pale with rage and envy; and calling to one of her servants said,
“Then the servant led the little girl away! But his heart melted when she begged him to spare her life,
And she said,
“I will not hurt thee, thou pretty child.”
So he left her there alone; and though he thought it most likely that the wild beasts great weight were taken off his heart when he had made up his mind not to kill her, but leave her to her fate.
