Classic stories for children, Brothers Grimm

Classic stories for children, Brothers Grimm.

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There were once a man and a woman who had long in vain wished for a child. At length the woman hoped that God was about to grant her desire. These people had a little window at the back of their house from which a splendid garden could be seen, which was full of the most beautiful flowers and herbs. It was, however, surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared to go into it because it belonged to an enchantress, who had great power and was dreaded by all the world. One day the woman was standing by this window and looking down into the garden, when she saw a bed which was planted with the most beautiful rampion (rapunzel), and it looked so fresh and green that she longed for it, she quite pined away, and began to look pale and miserable.




HANSEL AND GRETEL.
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 break, and once when great 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 bread, and 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.’ ‘O, you fool!’ said she, ‘then we must all four die of hunger, you may as well plane the planks for our coffins,’ and she left him no peace until he consented. ‘But I feel very sorry for the poor children, all the same,’ said the man.

The two children had also not been able to sleep for hunger, and had heard what their stepmother had said to their father. Gretel wept bitter tears, and said to Hansel: ‘Now all is over with us.’ ‘Be quiet, Gretel,’ said Hansel, ‘do not distress yourself, I will soon find a way to help us.’ And when the old folks had fallen asleep, he got up, put on his little coat, opened the door below, and crept outside. The moon shone brightly, and the white pebbles which lay in front of the house glittered like real silver pennies. Hansel stooped and stuffed the little pocket of his coat with as many as he could get in. Then he went back and said to Gretel: ‘Be comforted, dear little sister, and sleep in peace, God will not forsake us,’ and he lay down again in his bed. When day dawned, but before the sun had risen, the woman came and awoke the two children, saying: ‘Get up, you sluggards! we are going into the forest to fetch wood.’ She gave each a little piece of bread, and said: ‘There is something for your dinner, but do not eat it up before then, for you will get nothing else.’ Gretel took the bread under her apron, as Hansel had the pebbles in his pocket. Then they all set out together on the way to the forest. When they had walked a short time, Hansel stood still and peeped back at the house, and did so again and again. His father said: ‘Hansel, what are you looking at there and staying behind for? Pay attention, and do not forget how to use your legs.’ ‘Ah, father,’ said Hansel, ‘I am looking at my little white cat, which is sitting up on the roof, and wants to say goodbye to me.’ The wife said: ‘Fool, that is not your little cat, that is the morning sun which is shining on the chimneys.’ Hansel, however, had not been looking back at the cat, but had been constantly throwing one of the white pebble-stones out of his pocket on the road.

Contents.
RAPUNZEL.
SNOW WHITE.
HANSEL AND GRETEL.
LITTLE RED-CAP [LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD].
THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER.
RUMPELSTILTSKIN.
SLEEPING BEAUTY.
THE BREMEN TOWN MUSICIANS.
THE GOLDEN BIRD.
HANS IN LUCK.
JORINDA AND JORINDEL.
THE TRAVELLING MUSICIANS.
OLD SULTAN.
THE STRAW, THE COAL, AND THE BEAN.
BRIAR ROSE.
THE DOG AND THE SPARROW.
THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES.
THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE.
THE WILLOW-WREN AND THE BEAR.
THE FROG-PRINCE.
CAT AND MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP.
THE GOOSE-GIRL.
THE ADVENTURES OF CHANTICLEER AND PARTLET.
FUNDEVOGEL.
THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR.
THE MOUSE, THE BIRD, AND THE SAUSAGE.
MOTHER HOLLE.
THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM.
TOM THUMB.
CLEVER GRETEL.
THE OLD MAN AND HIS GRANDSON.
THE LITTLE PEASANT.
FREDERICK AND CATHERINE.
SWEETHEART ROLAND.
SNOWDROP.
THE PINK.
CLEVER ELSIE.
THE MISER IN THE BUSH.
ASHPUTTEL.
THE WHITE SNAKE.
THE WOLF AND THE SEVEN LITTLE KIDS.
THE QUEEN BEE.
THE JUNIPER-TREE.
THE TURNIP.
CLEVER HANS.
THE THREE LANGUAGES.
THE FOX AND THE CAT.
THE FOUR CLEVER BROTHERS.
LILY AND THE LION.
THE FOX AND THE HORSE.
THE BLUE LIGHT.
THE RAVEN.
THE GOLDEN GOOSE.
THE WATER OF LIFE.
THE TWELVE HUNTSMEN.
THE KING OF THE GOLDEN MOUNTAIN.
DOCTOR KNOWALL.
THE SEVEN RAVENS.
THE WEDDING OF MRS FOX.
THE SALAD.
THE STORY OF THE YOUTH WHO WENT FORTH TO LEARN WHAT FEAR WAS.
KING GRISLY-BEARD.
IRON HANS.
CAT-SKIN.
SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED.



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