`` What were you doing , little man ? '' asked Rose-red . `` You stupid , inquisitive goose ! '' replied the dwarf ; `` I wanted to split the tree , in order to get little chips of wood for our kitchen fire ; those thick logs that serve to make fires for coarse , greedy people like yourselves quite burn up all the little food we need . I had successfully driven in the wedge , and all was going well , but the cursed wood was so slippery that it suddenly sprang out , and the tree closed up so rapidly that I had no time to take my beautiful white beard out , so here I am stuck fast , and I ca n't get away ; and you silly , smooth-faced , milk-and-water girls just stand and laugh ! Ugh ! what wretches you are ! '' The children did all in their power , but they could n't get the beard out ; it was wedged in far too firmly . `` I will run and fetch somebody , '' said Rose-red . `` Crazy blockheads ! '' snapped the dwarf ; `` what 's the good of calling anyone else ? You 're already two too many for me . Does nothing better occur to you than that ? '' `` Do n't be so impatient , '' said Snow-white , `` I 'll see you get help , '' and taking her scissors out of her pocket she cut off the end of his beard . As soon as the dwarf felt himself free he seized a bag full of gold which was hidden among the roots of the tree , lifted it up , and muttered aloud : `` Curse these rude wretches , cutting off a piece of my splendid beard ! '' With these words he swung the bag over his back , and disappeared without as much as looking at the children again . Shortly after this Snow-white and Rose-red went out to get a dish of fish . As they approached the stream they saw something which looked like an enormous grasshopper springing toward the water as if it were going to jump in . They ran forward and recognized their old friend the dwarf . `` Where are you going to ? ''
asked XXXXX ; `` you 're surely not going to jump into the water ? ''
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