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There were two children, a boy and a
girl, named Hansel and Grethel. The family had very little of anything to
provide for their children. The wife wanted to take the children to the forest,
light them a fire, and give them each a piece of bread, then head back to work
and leave them alone. The children would not be able to find their way back
home.
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The father could not bring himself to do
that to his own children, and the mother became upset with him, saying "Then
we must all four die of hunger; thou mayest as well plane the planks for our
coffins."
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The children overheard their step-mother
because they had not been able to sleep due to hunger. The next morning their
step-mother woke them up to go fetch wood in the forest. Hansel kept looking
back at the house to help keep track of the path to the house from the forest,
which he was throwing white pebble-stones out of his pockets that he picked up
from the night before.
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Their father asked for them to bundle up
wood to build a fire, so they would not be cold. The children did as they were
told and their father lit the brushwood then asked them to lay down to rest
while the father and step mother went to “cut more wood.” The children fell
fast asleep and when they awoke, it was dark outside.
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Grethel was worried about how they were
going to get back home, but Hansel took her by the hand and followed the
pebbles back.
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