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Title: The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Grimm, Jacob, 1785-1863 Grimm, Wilhelm, 1786-1859 Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939, ill
Subjects: Fairy tales Folklore -- Germany
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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stopped and lookedback at the cottage, and he did the same thing again and again. His Father said : Hansel, what are you stopping to lookback at ? Take care, and put your best foot foremost. O Father ! said Hansel, I am looking at my whitecat, it is sitting on the roof, wanting to say good-bye to me. Little fool ! thats no cat, its the morning sun shiningon the chimney. But Hansel had not been looking at the cat, he had beendropping a pebble on to the ground each time he stopped.When they reached the middle of the forest, their Father said: Now, children, pick up some wood, I want to make a fireto warm you. Hansel and Grethel gathered the twigs together and soonmade a huge pile. Then the pile was lighted, and when itblazed up, the Woman said : Now lie down by the fire andrest yourselves while we go and cut wood; when we havefinished we will come back to fetch you. Hansel and Grethel sat by the fire, and when dinner-timecame they each ate their little bit of bread, and they thought 99
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Hansel picked up the glittering white pebbles and filled bis pockets with them. HANSEL AND GRETHEL their Father was quite near because they could hear the soundof an axe. It was no axe, however, but a branch which theMan had tied to a dead tree, and which blew backwards andforwards against it. They sat there such a long time thatthey got tired, their eyes began to close, and they were soonfast asleep. When they woke it was dark night. Grethel began tocry : How shall we ever get out of the wood ! But Hansel comforted her, and said : Wait a little till themoon rises, then we Avill soon find our way. When the full moon rose, Hansel took his little sistershand, and they walked on, guided by the pebbles, whichglittered like newly-coined money. They walked the wholenight, and at daybreak they found themselves back at theirFathers cottage. They knocked at the door, and when the Woman openedit and saw Hansel and Grethel, she said : You bad children,why did you sleep so long in the wood ? We t

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