Narration.
THE DWARF FISHING.
One pleasant summer day Snow-white and Rose-red went down to the river. As they sat on the bank they saw something which they thought was a big grasshopper jumping about. They went closer, to see what it could be, and then they saw it was the dwarf.
“What are you doing?” asked Rose-red; “are you trying to jump into the water?” “Do you take me for a fool?” cried the dwarf. “Don’t you see that this fish is trying to drag me into the river?”
Sure enough, the children saw that the dwarf was in trouble again. He was fishing, and the wind had blown his long beard about so that it had become tangled in the fish line. A large fish was caught upon the hook, and it was pulling as hard as it could to get away.
The dwarf held on by one hand to the rushes on the river bank, while with the other hand he tried to untangle his beard from the line. But the fish was stronger than the dwarf, and if the sisters had not held on to him with all their might he would surely have been dragged into the water and drowned.
They tried hard to free him, but could not. Snow-white had to take out her little scissors again, and this time she had to cut off a long piece of the dwarf’s beard. The dwarf was saved, but he was in a great rage because his beard was cut. He jumped about and scolded the children until he was tired.
Then he lifted up a bag of pearls, which he had hidden among the rushes. Throwing it over his shoulder, he went off.
Suggestions.