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Come, take these two wicked girls, they are tender morsels for

you, fat as young quails; for mercy's sake eat them!' The bear

took no heed of his words, but gave the wicked creature a single

blow with his paw, and he did not move again.

The girls had run away, but the bear called to them: 'Snow-white

and Rose-red, do not be afraid; wait, I will come with you.' Then

they recognized his voice and waited, and when he came up to them

suddenly his bearskin fell off, and he stood there a handsome

man, clothed all in gold. 'I am a king's son,' he said, 'and I

was bewitched by that wicked dwarf, who had stolen my treasures;

I have had to run about the forest as a savage bear until I was

freed by his death. Now he has got his well-deserved punishment.