“ The children did all in their power, but they couldn’t get the beard out; it was wedged in far too firmly. ‘I will run and fetch somebody,’ said Rose-red. ‘Crazy blockheads!’ snapped the dwarf; ‘what’s the good of calling anyone else? you’re already two too many for me. Does nothing better occur to you than that?’ ‘Don’t be so impatient,’ said Snow-white, ‘I’ll see you get help;’ and taking her scissors out of her pocket she cut the end off his beard. ”

“ When spring came, and all outside was green, the bear said one morning to Snow-white: ‘Now I must go away, and not return again the whole summer.’ ‘Where are going to, dear bear?’ asked Snow-white. ‘I must go to the wood and prootect my treasure from the wicked dwarfs. In winter, when the earth is frozen hard, they are obliged to remain underground, for they can’t work their way through ”

“ The two children loved each other so dearly that they always walked about hand-in-hand whenever they went out together, and when Snow-white said: ‘We will never desert each other,’ Rose-red answered: ‘No, not as long as we live;’ and the mother added: ‘Whatever one gets she shall share with the other.’ They often roamed about in the woods gathering berries and no beast offered to hurt them ”

“ Their road led over a heath where huge boulders of rock lay scattered here and there. While trudging along they saw a big bird hovering in the air, circling slowly above them, but always descending lower, till at last it settled on a rock not far from them. ”

“ Snow-white married him, and Rose-red his brother, and they divided the great treasure the dwarf had collected in his cave between them. The old mother lived for many years peacefully with her children ”