1 'The better to hear you with, my child,' was the reply.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In LITTLE RED-CAP [LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD] 2 Rapunzel grew into the most beautiful child under the sun.
3 The mouse at once asked what name had been given to the third child.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In CAT AND MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP 4 There were once a man and a woman who had long in vain wished for a child.
5 The king of a great land died, and left his queen to take care of their only child.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE GOOSE-GIRL 6 When a child fell into her power, she killed it, cooked and ate it, and that was a feast day with her.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In HANSEL AND GRETEL 7 This child was a daughter, who was very beautiful; and her mother loved her dearly, and was very kind to her.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE GOOSE-GIRL 8 There was once a forester who went into the forest to hunt, and as he entered it he heard a sound of screaming as if a little child were there.
9 However, the king hoped still to save his dear child altogether from the threatened evil; so he ordered that all the spindles in the kingdom should be bought up and burnt.
10 The wolf ran with the child a little way; the shepherd and his wife screamed out; but Sultan soon overtook him, and carried the poor little thing back to his master and mistress.
11 Then the shepherd patted him on the head, and said, 'Old Sultan has saved our child from the wolf, and therefore he shall live and be well taken care of, and have plenty to eat.'
12 The man in his terror consented to everything, and when the woman was brought to bed, the enchantress appeared at once, gave the child the name of Rapunzel, and took it away with her.
13 Once upon a time there was a dear little girl who was loved by everyone who looked at her, but most of all by her grandmother, and there was nothing that she would not have given to the child.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In LITTLE RED-CAP [LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD] 14 Your master, you know, goes out every morning very early with his wife into the field; and they take their little child with them, and lay it down behind the hedge in the shade while they are at work.
15 What the little fish had foretold soon came to pass; and the queen had a little girl, so very beautiful that the king could not cease looking on it for joy, and said he would hold a great feast and make merry, and show the child to all the land.
16 He followed the sound, and at last came to a high tree, and at the top of this a little child was sitting, for the mother had fallen asleep under the tree with the child, and a bird of prey had seen it in her arms, had flown down, snatched it away, and set it on the high tree.
17 The giant took the trunk on his shoulder, but the tailor seated himself on a branch, and the giant, who could not look round, had to carry away the whole tree, and the little tailor into the bargain: he behind, was quite merry and happy, and whistled the song: 'Three tailors rode forth from the gate,' as if carrying the tree were child's play.
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