But Snow-white was growing up, and grew more and more beautiful; and when she was seven years old she was as beautiful as the day, and more beautiful than the Queen herself. And once when the Queen asked her looking-glass⁠—

“Looking-glass, Looking-glass, on the wall,

Who in this land is the fairest of all?”

“Looking-glass, Looking-glass, on the wall, Who in this land is the fairest of all?”

it answered⁠—