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By a great forest dwelt a poor woodcutter with his wife and his two children. The
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boy was called Hansel and the girl Gretel.
He had little to bite and to break, and once when great scarcity fell on the land, he
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could no longer procure daily bread.
When he thought over this by night in his bed, and lay in his anxiety, he groaned
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and said to his wife, "What will we become?”
"I'll tell you what. Early tomorrow morning we will take the children into the forest
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to where it is the thickest," answered the woman.
There we will light a fire for them, and give each of them one piece of bread, and
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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. "I will not do
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that," said the man.