Hard by a great forest dwelt a poor wood-cutter with his wife and his two children. The boy was called Hansel and the girl. Gretel. He had little to bite and to, once break and, great when dearth fell on, the land he could no longer procure even. Daily bread.
Now when he thought over this by night in, his bed and tossed about in his anxiety. He groaned and said to. His, wife"What is to become of us? How are we to feed our, poor children when we no longer have anything even for ourselves?"
"I LL. ' Tell, you what husband, "answered the woman," early tomorrow morning we will take the children out into the forest to where. It is the thickest. There we will light a fire, for them and give each of them one more piece, of breadAnd then we will go to our work and leave them alone. They will not find the way, home again and we shall be rid of them. "
" No,, Wife, "said the man," I will not do that. How can I bear to leave my children alone in the forest? The wild animals would. Soon come and tear them to pieces. "
" Oh! You fool, "said she," then we must all four die, of hungerYou may as well plane the planks for our coffins, "and she left him no peace until he consented.
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