`` 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 Rose-red ; `` you 're surely not going to jump into the water ? '' `` I 'm not such a fool , '' screamed the dwarf . `` Do n't you see that cursed fish is trying to drag me in ? '' The little man had been sitting on the bank fishing , when unfortunately the wind had entangled his beard in the line ; and when immediately afterward a big fish bit , the feeble little creature had no strength to pull it out ; the fish had the upper fin , and dragged the dwarf toward him . He clung on with all his might to every rush and blade of grass , but it did n't help him much ; he had to follow every movement of the fish , and was in great danger of being drawn into the water . The girls came up just at the right moment , held him firm , and did all they could to disentangle his beard from the line ; but in vain , beard and line were in a hopeless muddle . Nothing remained but to produce the scissors and cut the beard , by which a small part of it was sacrificed . When the dwarf perceived what they were about he yelled to them : `` Do you call that manners , you toad-stools ! to disfigure a fellow 's face ?
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