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.

“You said I was the one who didn’t love her,” I told them, “but each of you has something you didn’t like about her. To wake her will take someone who knows all her ways and still loves her. That’s true love.”

Not long after that Prince Karl who had courted Snow White came to the door.