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“WE CANNOT LAY HER IN THE DARK EARTH” SAID THE DWARFS AND SO THEY HAD A TRANSPARENT GLASS COFFIN MADE SO THAT SHE COULD BE SEEN FROM EVERY SIDE / LAID HER IN IT AND WROTE ON IT HER NAME AND THAT SHE WAS A KINGS DAUGHTER THEN THEY CARRIED THE COFFIN INTO THE WOOD AND SOME OF THEM / ALWAYS WATCHED HER AND THE BIRDS ALSO CAME AND BEWAILED SNOWDROP FIRST AN OWL THEN A RAVEN AND LASTLI A DOVE / SO SNOWDROP LAY A LONG TIME IN HER COFFIN LOOKINGS AS THOUGH SHE WERE ASLEEP. [-] Grimm.”
by Marianne Stokes, c. 1880-1890

“WE CANNOT LAY HER IN THE DARK EARTH” SAID THE DWARFS AND SO THEY HAD A TRANSPARENT GLASS COFFIN MADE SO THAT SHE COULD BE SEEN FROM EVERY SIDE / LAID HER IN IT AND WROTE ON IT HER NAME AND THAT SHE WAS A KINGS DAUGHTER THEN THEY CARRIED THE COFFIN INTO THE WOOD AND SOME OF THEM / ALWAYS WATCHED HER AND THE BIRDS ALSO CAME AND BEWAILED SNOWDROP FIRST AN OWL THEN A RAVEN AND LASTLI A DOVE / SO SNOWDROP LAY A LONG TIME IN HER COFFIN LOOKINGS AS THOUGH SHE WERE ASLEEP. [-] Grimm.”

by Marianne Stokes, c. 1880-1890

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