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ihn heraus und brummte vor sich hin: „Ungehobeltes Volk, schneidet mir
ein Stück von meinem stolzen Barte ab! Lohn’s euch der Kuckuck!“ Damit
schwang er seinen Sack auf den Rücken und ging fort, ohne die Kinder nur
noch einmal anzusehen.
The children tried very hard, but they could not pull the beard out,
it was caught too fast.
‘I will run and get someone else’, said Rose-Red.
‘You senseless goose!’ snarled the dwarf. ‘Who would go and get
more people? Already there are two too many. Can’t you think of
something better?’
‘Don’t be so impatient’, said Snow-White. ‘I will try to think’, and
she pulled her scissors out of her pocket, and cut off the end of the
beard. Immediately the dwarf felt that he was free he seized a sack
full of gold that was hidden amongst the tree’s roots, and, lifting
it up and grumbled to himself ‘Uncouth people, to cut off a bit of
my beautiful beard, of which I am so proud! I leave the cuckoos to
pay you for what you did.’ Saying this, he swung the sack across
his shoulder, and went off, without even casting a glance at the
children.
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