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[For a time all is quiet in the little room. Then, from far underground is a sound of distant knocking. It comes nearer till it sounds just under the house. Finally a great stone slab in the floor is pushed up slowly, and from an underground passage that leads from the house into the deep mines, six of the Seven Dwarfs clamber up into sight.
Their names are Blick, Flick, Glick, Snick, Plick, and Whick. They are very small—the tallest hardly above your waist—but they are extremely old, and their beards are long and grey. Each carries a lighted lantern and a pickaxe, and bears a heavy sack over his shoulder. As soon as the last one has climbed into the room they form in line, with Blick, the eldest, at the head.

Blick. Now, brothers, evening roll-call! [He calls his own name.] Blick [And answers.] Here! [Then he calls each of the others by