1 The boy was called Hansel and the girl Gretel.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In HANSEL AND GRETEL 2 Thereupon she led the girl by the hand up to a broad gateway.
3 Now, then, Gretel,' she cried to the girl, 'stir yourself, and bring some water.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In HANSEL AND GRETEL 4 But the girl did not care for the man as a girl ought to care for her betrothed husband.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM 5 The girl looked up and saw that the voice came from a bird hanging in a cage on the wall.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM 6 The old woman spoke so kindly, that the girl summoned up courage and agreed to enter into her service.
7 The gate was then closed, and the girl found herself back in the old world close to her mother's house.
8 The girl passed on, going from room to room of the house, but they were all empty, and still she saw no one.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM 9 The girl went back to the well not knowing what to do, and at last in her distress she jumped into the water after the spindle.
10 And soon came a gale of wind, and carried away Curdken's hat, and away went Curdken after it, while the girl went on combing and curling her hair.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContextHighlight In THE GOOSE-GIRL 11 The gate was opened, and as the girl passed through, a shower of gold fell upon her, and the gold clung to her, so that she was covered with it from head to foot.
12 Thus he roamed about in misery for some years, and at length came to the desert where Rapunzel, with the twins to which she had given birth, a boy and a girl, lived in wretchedness.
13 Now it chanced one day that some blood fell on to the spindle, and as the girl stopped over the well to wash it off, the spindle suddenly sprang out of her hand and fell into the well.
14 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] 15 So she made the sister go and sit by the well and spin, and the girl pricked her finger and thrust her hand into a thorn-bush, so that she might drop some blood on to the spindle; then she threw it into the well, and jumped in herself.
16 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.
17 When Sunday came, and it was time for the girl to start, a feeling of dread came over her which she could not explain, and that she might be able to find her path again, she filled her pockets with peas and lentils to sprinkle on the ground as she went along.
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