When Snow White raised her head and looked up, she saw a tiny little cottage nestled further back in the woods.
"Oh! A little cottage. Maybe I can find shelter there," she exclaimed loudly to no one in particular (which for some strange reason everyone does in fairy tales). She walked over to the house and knocked on the door.
"Hello. Anybody home?"
Hearing no answer, she tried to open the door, but it was locked.
"Hmmm," she thought to herself. "There must be another way inside."
So, ignoring the law against breaking and entering, Snow White grabbed a large rock and smashed one of the windows, climbing through and entering the kitchen.
"Oh!" she remarked. "How cute. Everything is so tiny. Why look at the seven little chairs and the small table. There must be seven children who live here, or seven midgets or dwarfs."
Snow White walked some more around the house and said, "But my, everything is so dusty and dirty." So, she picked up the phone and called the Royal Castle Cleaning Services, who soon came by and cleaned the cottage from top to bottom.
"Oh, I'm so sleepy," she yawned, and she headed upstairs to the bedroom. In the bedroom, were seven tiny twin beds. "Oh, how cute," she remarked.
At the foot of each bed, had the names of the owners carved on to them. Snow White read them aloud, "Gabby, Sniffy, Jumpy, Crabby, Tubby, Deafy, and Dummy. My what funny names for children, or midgets, or dwarfs."
She let a long yawn, and then fell fast asleep, sprawled out on three of the seven tiny beds.
But actually, children, midgets, or dwarfs didn't really live in that tiny cottage, but instead, seven little elves. The elves worked all day in the forest at the toll gate, collecting money from people traveling in carriages coming through the highway interchange from the enchanted forest to the kingdom. The little elves were Gabby, the leader of the group who always constantly talked; Crabby, who was always, well, crabby; Tubby, who always constantly are; Jumpy, who was a bundle of nerves and jumped at sudden and loud noises; Deafy, who was hard of hearing and always carried a large hearing horn with him; Sniffy, who never stopped sneezing and sniffling; and Dummy, who was completely dumb and stupid.
The seven elves soon started home, but when they reached their cottage, they stood still in their tracks.
"Look!" yelled Gabby. "The lights are on! The chimney's smoking!"
"Oh, no!" cried Jumpy. "There's burglars in our house! What we'll do! WHAT WE'LL DO!"
"Ah, shut up, you dunderhead!" shouted Crabby, as he walloped Jumpy to calm him down.
"What's that? Burgers? I would love some burgers," yelled Deafy.
"Me too," chimed in Tubby.
"Not burgers, you idiot!" screamed Crabby at Deafy. "Burglars!"
"What are we going to do?" Jumpy asked Gabby.
"Well one of us will have to go inside and flush 'em out," said Gabby. "But who?"
The elves then all turned around to face Dummy, who was just smiling with a completely stupid look on his face.
"Here you go, Dummy," said Gabby handing him a club. "Now go inside and flush the burglar out of the house."
Dummy shook his head.
"Alright, tell you what. We'll head inside with you, and we'll be right behind you if you need us," Gabby told him.
Dummy reluctantly nodded his head, and then all seven elves crept silently into their house. Hearing loud snoring from upstairs, Gabby whispered, "It's up in the bedroom. Go on up."
He pushed Dummy up the stairs, and then Dummy tiptoed quietly up to the bedroom. He peered through the doorway and saw Snow White covered under the sheets on the bed, snoring loudly. He then leaped on the bed and started to try hitting the princess. Hearing all the noise upstairs, the other elves soon hurried up and rushed to help Dummy, and soon they were all beating up on Snow White.
"Help! Help!" she cried from being under attack by the elves. She then sat up and started throwing the tiny men off her.
"Why, it's a girl," sniffled Sniffy.
"Why, you're not children, midgets, or dwarfs. You're elves!" Snow White said in astonishment.
"Well, we know who we are, but who are you, and what's the big idea breaking into our house?" snapped Crabby.
"Now, now, let's not be so harsh with her," said Gabby.
"Why, I'm Snow White, the princess," she said.
"The princess!" exclaimed the elves in surprise.
"I don't care if she's the Queen of England!" shouted Crabby. "She can't stay here. She's probably ain't nothing but a no good hussy!"
"Oh, please let me stay," pleaded Snow White.
She then told them her whole story. All the elves agreed to let her stay, all except of course, Crabby.
"I don't care about your sob story," Crabby shouted. "Ya can't stay here! I say we should kick her out into the street on her can and let Queen Grimhilde get her, for all I care. She can't go around breaking into other people's homes."
But, Gabby, Tubby, Jumpy, Deafy, Sniffy, and Dummy all ignored Crabby and let Snow White stay. She cooked dinner for them, and they sang and danced joyfully for the rest of the night.
Note: The names I pickedfor the elves were actually some names on a list of about fifty others that Walt Disney actually considered for the dwarfs. In some drafts Jumpy and Deafy were actually planned to be names for the dwarfs in the movie, but eventually Jumpy became Dopey, and Deafy was dropped in favor of Sneezy.