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1  'I will take great care,' said Little Red-Cap to her mother, and gave her hand on it.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In LITTLE RED-CAP [LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD]
2  When he had rested himself he set off again, driving his cow towards his mother's village.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In HANS IN LUCK
3  And there was a good fairy too, who was fond of the princess, and helped her mother to watch over her.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE GOOSE-GIRL
4  The gate was then closed, and the girl found herself back in the old world close to her mother's house.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In MOTHER HOLLE
5  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 Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE GOOSE-GIRL
6  Then she went in to her mother and sister, and as she was so richly covered with gold, they gave her a warm welcome.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In MOTHER HOLLE
7  The king's son remained there a short while longer, and he thought of his mother, and wondered if she were still alive.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE PINK
8  The stepdaughter once had a pretty apron, which the other fancied so much that she became envious, and told her mother that she must and would have that apron.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In SWEETHEART ROLAND
9  Then up he got with a light heart, free from all his troubles, and walked on till he reached his mother's house, and told her how very easy the road to good luck was.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In HANS IN LUCK
10  Then the queen her mother, packed up a great many costly things; jewels, and gold, and silver; trinkets, fine dresses, and in short everything that became a royal bride.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In THE GOOSE-GIRL
11  One day her mother said to her: 'Come, Little Red-Cap, here is a piece of cake and a bottle of wine; take them to your grandmother, she is ill and weak, and they will do her good.'
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In LITTLE RED-CAP [LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD]
12  She related to them all that had happened, and when the mother heard how she had come by her great riches, she thought she should like her ugly, lazy daughter to go and try her fortune.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In MOTHER HOLLE
13  The little man crawled about in the hay-loft, and at last found a snug place to finish his night's rest in; so he laid himself down, meaning to sleep till daylight, and then find his way home to his father and mother.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In TOM THUMB
14  Not long afterwards, there was once more great dearth throughout the land, and the children heard their mother saying at night to their father: 'Everything is eaten again, we have one half loaf left, and that is the end.'
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In HANSEL AND GRETEL
15  The mother, however, loved the ugly and lazy one best, because she was her own daughter, and so the other, who was only her stepdaughter, was made to do all the work of the house, and was quite the Cinderella of the family.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In MOTHER HOLLE
16  She could not at first tell why she felt sad, but she became conscious at last of great longing to go home; then she knew she was homesick, although she was a thousand times better off with Mother Holle than with her mother and sister.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In MOTHER HOLLE
17  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.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
ContextHighlight   In FUNDEVOGEL
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