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THE SNOW-QUEEN
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sitting on a large pearl as round as a spinning wheel. All the ladies-in-waiting were standing round, each with their attendants, and the lords-in-waiting with their attendants. The nearer they stood to the door the prouder they were.'

black and white illustration of a girl in a puffy-sleeved dress and a crown sitting on a giant pearl under an ornate canopy on a dais holding a puffy-feathered fan behind her head. She is looking at a boy in a plain tunic and patched leggings with a bag slung over his shoulder. The room is full of other fancily dressed people. On the dais between the girl and the boy is a large crow.
'HE HAD NOT COME TO WOO' HE SAID.


'It must have been dreadful!' said little Gerda. 'And Kay did win the princess?'

'I heard from my tame sweetheart that he was merry and quick-witted; he had not come to woo, he said, but to listen to the princess's wisdom. And the end of it was that they fell in love with each other.'

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