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The child meets a dwarf in an empty house in the forest. She is initially startled by his appearance but sees that he has a kind smile. They sit down to share a meal, as the dwarf insists there is enough food for both. The child wonders where the other dwarfs are, expecting there to be seven like in the story of Snow White. The dwarf explains that he is the only dwarf and finds the child's mistaken belief that there would be more amusing, as she resembles Snow White in her assumptions.

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The child meets a dwarf in an empty house in the forest. She is initially startled by his appearance but sees that he has a kind smile. They sit down to share a meal, as the dwarf insists there is enough food for both. The child wonders where the other dwarfs are, expecting there to be seven like in the story of Snow White. The dwarf explains that he is the only dwarf and finds the child's mistaken belief that there would be more amusing, as she resembles Snow White in her assumptions.

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Snow WhiteSnow-White

The child’s song broke off in a little scream, for things are sometimes

startling, even when you have been expecting them; but the scream bubbled into a

laugh. “Ah! I . . . – I mean I’m laughing because you look so funny. I took some bread Commented [AS1]: Em dash

and milk, because I was hungry.” She stopped abruptly, feeling that sob somewhere

about her again. The dwarf advanced toward her, and she held on to the back of the

chair,; but he held out his hand and smiled.

“How do you do?” he said. “I am very glad to see you, pray sit down again

and finish your supper.”

“It’s your supper,” said the child, who was honest. “I didn’t mean to steal it; I

don’t know, perhaps there isn’t enough for both of us.” She had a way of leaving out

words in her sentences that sometimes confused people, but the dwarf seemed to

understand.

“There’s plenty for both!” he said. “Come! I’ll sit down here, and you shall

give me some milk. I am hungry, too. Have some honey!” He nodded at her, and

smiled again; he had the most delightful smile the child had ever seen. Somebody

once said you could warm yourself at it it as at a fire. The child took a piece of bread

and looked at him over it as she nibbled. He was not a tiny dwarf, not one of the kind

that getsget into flowers, and fightsfight with grassbladesgrass-blades, and that sort

of thing. No, indeed! He was just a little man; why, he was taller than she was,

though not so very much taller. He had brown hair and a soft brown beard; his eyes

were brown, too, and full of light. All brown and gray, for his dress was gray and soft,

“kind of humplety velvet,” the child said to herself, though it was really only
corduroy. He seemed all of a piece with the house, and the gray rock behind it. Now

he looked at her, and smiled again.

“You look as if you were wondering something very much,” he said. “Have

some more milk! What are you wondering?”

“Partly, I was wondering where the rest of you was!” said the child.

“The rest of me?” said the man. “There isn’t anymore any more of me. This is

all there is. Don’t you think it’s enough?” He smiled still, but this time it was only his

mouth, and his eyes looked dark, as if something hurt him.

“I mean the others,” the child explained. “The rest of the seven. I guess it’s

six, perhaps. There was seven of ‘em ‘em where Snow WhiteSnow-white came to,

you know.”

“Seven what?” asked the man.

“Dwarfs!” said the child.

“Oh!” said the man.

He was silent for a moment, as if he were thinking; then he laughed, and the

child laughed, too. “Isn’t it funny?” she said. “What are you laughing at?”

“Yes, it is funny!” said the man. “Why, you are just like Snow WhiteSnow-

white, aren’t you? Bbut there aren’t any more dwarfs. I’m the only one there is

here.”

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