"Good heaven." said the girl. "Strawberries don't grow in the winter. The ground is frozen, and furthermore the snow has covered everything. And why am I to go out in this paper dress? It is so cold outside that one's breath freezes. The wind will blow through the dress, and the thorns will tear it from my body Recruitment agency hk."
　　"Will you contradict me?" said the stepmother. "Be on your way, and do not let me see you again until you have the basketful of strawberries." Then she gave her a little piece of hard bread and said, "You can eat from this all day," while thinking, "You will freeze and starve to death out there, and I shall never see you again."
　　The girl obeyed and put on the paper dress and went out with the basket. There was nothing but snow far and wide, and not a green blade was to be seen. After coming into the woods she saw a small house. Three little dwarfs peeped out. She greeted them and gently knocked on the door .
　　They shouted, "Come in," and she down on the bench by the stove to warm herself and eat her breakfast.
　　The dwarfs said, "Give us some of it, too."
　　"Gladly," she said, and broke her piece of bread in two, giving them half."
　　They asked, "What are you doing here in the woods in the wintertime and in your thin dress."
　　"Oh," she answered, "I am supposed to gather a basketful of strawberries, and am not allowed to go home until I have them."
　　When she had eaten her bread they gave her a broom and said, "Sweep away the snow next to the back door ."