There was once a rich woman who lived with her two daughters Snow-White and Rose-Red in beautiful New York City. These two children were as good as any normal teenager New Yorker. They loved each other dearly and agreed that they would never separate.
Often the children would run and play in a secluded park near their home. The parks name was Fairytale Park. The children loved it because it was filled with red and white rosebushes, for that is what they were named after.
In the evenings the mother would say, "Go Snow-White and bolt the door." Then the three of them would sit in front of the fireplace and the mother would read the children a story while they braided each others' hair.
One evening when it had been snowing, they heard a knock at the door. Rose-Red drew the bolt and a dog peaked his head in. Then the dog began to speak, "Do not be afraid. I will do you no harm. May I come in and warm myself?"
Then the dog said to Snow-White and Rose-Red, "Will you please clean off my coat?" When the girls had cleaned off his coat, he stretched himself out before the fire. The girls sat next to him and petted him until it was time to go to bed.
After they had fallen asleep, the mother said to the dog, "You can stay here if you want." The dog would trot off over the snow in the morning, but at night he would return and he would play with the girls.
Then one morning, when spring had returned and all was green again, the dog told Snow-White that he must leave and that he could not come back for the whole summer. Snow-White was sad to see him go. But, as he was leaving his fur got caught on the bolt and Snow-White thought that she saw the shimmering of gold underneath his coat.
The next day, the children went to play in the park and as they were walking, they came to a tree laying across the sidewalk. And there was a dwarf with a wrinkled face and a snow white beard. The end of his beard was caught in a split of the tree, and the little man was trying to free himself. He glared at Snow-White and Rose-Red.
"Are you going to pass by without offering to help me?"
"What have you done, little man?" asked Rose-Red.
"I was walking along and this stupid tree fell on my beard!"
The children tried and tried to free the little man but nothing worked. Finally, Snow-White pulled a pair of scissors from her bag and snipped of the end of his beard.
As soon as the little man was free, he snatched up his sack. The children saw that it was filled with treasure and beautiful jewels. He threw it over his shoulder and stomped off grumbling, "Stupid people to cut off a piece of my beautiful beard!"
Sometime later, Snow-White and Rose-Red went to the mall. As they came near a sporting goods store, they saw the same little man hopping about.
"What are you doing?" asked Rose-Red.
"Don't you see that my beard is caught in this fishing pole?" said the dwarf.
Snow-White and Rose-Red tried to untangle the man's beard but they couldn't. So Snow-White took the scissors out of her bag again and snipped off another piece of the man's beard.
The dwarf cried in great rage, "It wasn't enough that you cut my beard once, but now you cut it a second time!"
With these unkind words the dwarf took the bag of precious stones and slipped away.
Not many days later they were walking in the park when they saw a few precious stones on the walkway. The assumed that they had been dropped by the wicked little man. They stopped to look at them because they were so beautiful.
Then the dwarf appeared and said, "Why do you stand there gaping?"
Suddenly there was a loud bark, and the dog came running out from behind the bushes.
The dwarf jumped up, but he could not escape before the dog overtook him. "Spare me, my dear prince dog!" the little man cried out in fear. "I will give you all of my treasures. What have you to fear of a little man like me? There are two wicked girls, take them instead."
But the dog gave him a single bite and the dwarf did not move ever again.
Snow-White and Rose-Red were running away and the dog called after them, "Snow-White! Rose-Red! Do not be afraid! Wait and I will come with you!"
The children recognized the dog's voice and they stopped. To their utter amazement, his coat fell off, and there stood a tall man dressed in fine gold.
"I am a king's son from far away," he said. "Bewitched by that wicked dwarf who stole all of my treasures, to wander in the streets as a dog until his death released me."
In time, Snow-White was married to the prince, and Rose-Red to his brother. Together they shared the gold and treasures that had been collected by the evil little dwarf.
In front of their castle stood two rosebushes, one white and one red, in honor of the girls.