儿童故事 白雪公主 英语 有声

Each day the dwarfs went out to work, seeking gold and silver, while Snow White did the chores at the cottage. Each day the dwarfs became even more fond of the maiden, and each began to think of her as if she were his own daughter. Before they left for work each day they warned her, ‘The queen may yet find out where you are, so keep the door locked and let no one in.’

The queen, thinking Snow White was dead, had not used her magic looking glass in some months. But one day she went to her glass and repeated the familiar refrain:

‘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, art the fairest in all this land:
But over the hills, in the greenwood shade,
Where the seven dwarfs their dwelling have made,
There Snow White is hiding her head; and she
Is lovelier still, O queen! than thee.’

Then the queen was very angry; for she knew that the glass always spoke the truth. With vengeance in her heart she called for the servant who had betrayed her, but he had fled into hiding realizing he was in danger. Shaking with rage, the evil queen said ‘Snow White shall die, I will make sure of it myself.’ So she went into her chamber, and made an elaborate plan. She prepared a poisoned apple: the outside looked very rosy and tempting, but whoever tasted it was sure to die. Then she dressed herself up as a peasant’s wife, and traveled over the hills to the dwarfs’ cottage, and knocked at the door.