When the queen got home, she went to her glass, and spoke to it, but to her
surprise it replied in the same words as before.
Then the blood ran cold in her heart with spite and malice to hear that
Snow-White still lived; and she dressed herself up again in a disguise, but
very different from the one she wore before, and took with her a poisoned
comb. When she reached the dwarfs' cottage, she knocked at the door, and
cried, "Fine wares to sell!" but Snow-White said, "I dare not let any one in."
Then the queen said, "Only look at my beautiful combs;" and gave her the
poisoned one. And it looked so pretty that the little girl took it up and put
it into her hair to try it; but the moment it touched her head the poison was
so powerful that she fell down senseless. "There you may lie," said the
queen, and went her way. But by good luck the dwarfs returned very early that
evening; and when they saw Snow-White lying on the ground, they thought what
had happened, and soon found the poisoned comb. And when they took it away,
she recovered, and told them all that had passed; and they warned her once
more not to open the door to any one.