the kettle was of copper and shone like gold, so brightly was it polished. in the evening, when the snowflakes fell, the mother said, "go, snow-white, and bolt the door," and then they sat round the hearth, and the mother took her spectacles and read aloud out of a large book, and the two girls listened as they sat and span. and close by them lay a lamb upon the floor, and behind them upon a perch sat a white dove with its head hidden beneath its wings.