It was in the middle of winter, and the big flakes of snow were falling thick. The young queen sat working at the open window, the frame of which was made of the finest ebony and as she was matching the flakes turning in the air, she pnoked her finger with her needle, and three tiny of blood fell upon the snow. Then she drops gased thoughfully upon the red drops which spotted e white snow and said, "Would that my little daughter may be as white as that snow,