Rose Red and Snow White

Once upon a time there lived a widow with her two daughters.

One daughter was named Snow White and the other was Rose Red.

One night, in the coldest part of winter, there was a knock on the family's door. It was a bear. "Let me in. It is cold out and your home looks warm," the bear said.

The widow and her daughters let the bear come in and lay by the fire. Night after night, the bear returned.

Finally spring came and the bear stopped coming every night. He said he had treasure to protect since the than had softened the ground.

The widow and her daughters said a sad farewell to the bear. Now that the weather was warmer, Rose Red and Snow White spent hours roaming the countryside.

One day, Snow White and Rose Red found a small man with a long beard. His beard was stuck beneath a tree which he had just chopped down. "My beard! My beard!" he called out. "Someone help me!" "Here, this should do the trick," Snow White said. She pulled a pair of scissors out of her day basket and snipped the end of the man's beard, freeing (him) from the tree.

"Oh, my beard! My beard!" the small man cried. "You evil girls, look what you have done to my beautiful beard!" He scooped up a bag full of jingling and jangling treasure and ran off.

The second time the girls met the small, mean man, they found him caught in his own fishing line. After failing to untangle the hook from his beard, Snow White once again got out her scissors and snipped the beard.

"Oh, my beard! My beard!" the small man cried. "You evil girls, look what you have done to my beautiful beard!" He scooped up a bag full of jingling and jangling treasure and ran off.

The third time the girls met the small, mean man, he was being carried off by an eagle. Snow White and Rose Red each grabbed one of the man's legs and pulled him the the eagle's talons.

The man's coat was ripped and torn from the eagle. "You evil girls, look what you have done to my beautiful coat!" He scooped up a bag full of jingling and jangling treasure and ran off.

The fourth time the girls met the little man, his boot was stuck in the rocks of a steep hill. The girls tugged and pulled and finally freed the man from the rocks by pulling his foot out of his boot.

Just then, the bear from the winter ran down the hill and hit the small man in the head with his paw.

The small man fell down dead and, free of the small man's curse, the bear turned in a prince.

The prince invited Snow White, Rose Red, and their mother to live with him at his castle. They lived together happily ever after.