We arrived back home to find Snow White in a deep sleep. She was lying inside on the kitchen floor so her animal friends couldn’t help her. Beside her was a basket of fruit with a note supposedly from a farmer’s wife thanking us for being good neighbors. At the bottom another note to us told us that only true love could wake Snow White. In her hand she had half an apple with a bite out of it. The other half of the apple with a bite out of it was in the basket. It was an old trick. The Queen pretended to be no stranger but a neighbor who knew us well. She offered Snow White an apple. When she refused the Queen cut the apple in half and took a bite to prove it was safe. Then Snow White took a bite out of the poisoned half and fell into a deep sleep. Nothing we tried would wake her so we pondered about what to do. We decided we would put her in a glass box so we could see her when she awakened.
Of course the other dwarves thought their love for her would wake her but several days passed, then weeks but still she dozed on. Shorty said it was my fault. I never liked her he said and I wanted to drive her away. They all believed if I would leave the house she would have only love around her. I went and lived in a tent in the woods and waited. Hal said if she would just wake up she could cook one of her delicious meals. Don said he had a hole in the knees of his work pants and if she hadn’t been so careless she could mend them. Bill said that the box is like a piece of furniture that has to be dusted but has no useful purpose. He suggested that we could put a blanket over it and set things on it. All of us rejoiced that we didn’t have to take Saturday night baths.