The Mother Snow (8 完)

The Mother Snow (8 完)

Mother Snow was soon tired of this.
" You must go away, " she said.

The lazy girl was glad.
She was sure that now she would have the shower of gold.

Mother Snow led her, too, to the great doorway.

While she was standing beneath it, a big cauldron of black pitch was emptied over her.
" That is your reward for your work, lazy girl, " said the old woman, as she shut the door.

So the silly selfish girl went home, covered with sticky pitch, from head to toe.

As soon as the cock standing by the well saw her, he crowed:
" Cock-a-doodle-doo !
  Your dirty girl has come home, too ! "

The pitch stuck hard to the poor girl.
The stepmother scrubbed and scrubbed and scrubbed her daughter, but it never came off.

Then the stepdaughter scrubbed her sister and all at once the dirty pitch came off.
The Stepmother thanked the good girl and the families lived together happily ever after.

(8/8 完)