title: Seriously, Snow White Was SO Forgetful!: The Story of Snow White as Told by the Dwarves (The Other Side of the Story)
author:  Nancy Loewen 
description: Nancy Loewen has published many books for kids. Shes a two-time Minnesota Book Award finalist (Four to the Pole and The LAST Day of Kindergarten) and the recipient of a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers (Writers Toolbox series). She holds an MFA from Hamline University in St. Paul. Nancy has two children and lives near Minneapolis. To learn more, visit www. nancyloewen.com.
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  The Relenting of Sarnidac  
    
  
  
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  # The Relenting of Sarnidac
  
  
  ### by Lord Dunsany
  
  
  
  
  
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  The lame boy Sarnidac tended sheep on a hill to the southward of the city.
  Sarnidac was a dwarf and greatly derided in the city. For the women said:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "It is very funny that Sarnidac is a dwarf," and they would point their
  fingers at him saying: -- "This is Sarnidac, he is a dwarf; also he is very
  lame."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Once the doors of all the temples in the world swung open to the morning, and
  Sarnidac with his sheep upon the hill saw strange figures going down the white
  road, always southwards. All the morning he saw the dust rising above the
  strange figures and always they went southwards right as far as the rim of the
  Nydoon hills where the white road could be seen no more. And the figures
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