dear me , where am I ? ' she cried . The Prince answered joyfully , ` You are with me , ' and he told her all that had happened , adding , ' I love you better than anyone in the whole wide world . Will you come with me to my father 's palace and be my wife ? ' Snowdrop consented , and went with him , and the marriage was celebrated with great pomp and splendour . Now Snowdrop 's wicked step-mother was one of the guests invited to the wedding feast . When she had dressed herself very gorgeously for the occasion , she went to the mirror , and said : ` Mirror , mirror , hanging there , Who in all the land 's most fair ? ' and the mirror answered : ` My Lady Queen , you are fair , 't is true , But Snowdrop is fairer far than you . ' When the wicked woman heard these words she uttered a curse , and was beside herself with rage and mortification . At first she did n't want to go to the wedding at all , but at the same time she felt she would never be happy till she had seen the young Queen . As she entered Snowdrop recognised her , and nearly fainted with fear ; but red-hot iron shoes had been prepared for the wicked old Queen , and she was made to get into them and dance till she fell down dead . -LRB- 29 -RRB- -LRB- 29 -RRB- Grimm . THE GOLDEN GOOSE THERE was once a man who had three sons . The youngest of them was called Dullhead , and was sneered and jeered at and snubbed on every possible opportunity . One day it happened that the eldest son wished to go into the forest to cut wood , and before he started his mother gave him a fine rich cake and a bottle of wine , so that he might be sure not to suffer from hunger or thirst . When he reached the forest he met a little old grey man who wished him ` Good-morning , ' and said : ` Do give me a piece of that cake you have got in your pocket , and let me have a draught of your wine -- I am so hungry and thirsty . ' But this clever son replied : ` If I give you my cake and wine I shall have none left for myself ; you just go your own way ; ' and he left the little man standing there and went further on into the forest . There he began to cut down a tree , but before long he made a false stroke with his axe , and cut his own arm so badly that he was obliged to go home and have it bound up . Then the second son went to the forest , and his mother gave him a good cake and a bottle of wine as she had to his elder brother . He too met the little old grey man , who begged him for a morsel of cake and a draught of wine .
But the XXXXX son spoke most sensibly too , and said : ` Whatever I give to you I deprive myself of .
Good-morning Grimm Prince Queen Snowdrop day first left second step-mother