Then the eyes of the cruel Queen sparkled with glee , and laughing aloud she cried : ` As white as snow , as red as blood , and as black as ebony , this time the Dwarfs wo n't be able to bring you back to life . ' When she got home she asked the mirror : ` Mirror , mirror , hanging there , Who in all the land 's most fair ? ' and this time it replied : ` You are most fair , my Lady Queen , None fairer in the land , I ween . ' Then her jealous heart was at rest -- at least , as much at rest as a jealous heart can ever be . When the little Dwarfs came home in the evening they found Snowdrop lying on the ground , and she neither breathed nor stirred . They lifted her up , and looked round everywhere to see if they could find anything poisonous about . They unlaced her bodice , combed her hair , washed her with water and wine , but all in vain ; the child was dead and remained dead . Then they placed her on a bier , and all the seven Dwarfs sat round it , weeping and sobbing for three whole days . At last they made up their minds to bury her , but she looked as blooming as a living being , and her cheeks were still such a lovely colour , that they said : ` We ca n't hide her away in the black ground . ' So they had a coffin made of transparent glass , and they laid her in it , and wrote on the lid in golden letters that she was a royal Princess . Then they put the coffin on the top of the mountain , and one of the Dwarfs always remained beside it and kept watch over it . And the very birds of the air came and bewailed Snowdrop 's death , first an owl , and then a raven , and last of all a little dove . Snowdrop lay a long time in the coffin , and she always looked the same , just as if she were fast asleep , and she remained as white as snow , as red as blood , and her hair as black as ebony . Now it happened one day that a Prince came to the wood and passed by the Dwarfs ' house . He saw the coffin on the hill , with the beautiful Snowdrop inside it , and when he had read what was written on it in golden letters , he said to the Dwarf : ` Give me the coffin . I 'll give you whatever you like for it . ' But the Dwarf said : ` No ; we would n't part with it for all the gold in the world . ' ` Well , then , ' he replied , ` give it to me , because I ca n't live without Snowdrop . I will cherish and love it as my dearest possession . ' He spoke so sadly that the good Dwarfs had pity on him , and gave him the coffin , and the Prince made his servants bear it away on their shoulders .
Now it XXXXX that as they were going down the hill they stumbled over a bush , and jolted the coffin so violently that the poisonous bit of apple Snowdrop had swallowed fell out of her throat .
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