HANSEL AND GRETEL

Once upon a time a poorman woodcutter lived in a tiny in the forest with his two children, their Hansel and Gretel with His wife and the children's stepmother, was often mean to the children and was forever go out fine the woodcutter."There is not enough food in the house for us all. There are too many mouths to feed! We must get fine money to takecare the children. And she kept on trying to persuade her husband to live his children in the forest."Take them go from home, from far so that they can`t never find their way back! Maybe someone will find them and give them a home." The sad him husband woodcutter ,didn't know what to do. One evening, Hansel had heard his parents' conversation talk and he comforted Gretel."Don't worry! If they leave us in the forest, we'll find the way home," said gretel. And run out of the house and filled some in pockets with little white bread, then went back to bed and sleep.All night long, the woodcutter's wife cruel on and on at her husband till, at dawn, he say leave Hansel and Gretel away into the forest. But as they went into the path of the trees, Hansel dropped a little white pebble which they take from yesterday night. there and there on the mossy green ground. At a end, the two children found they really were alone: the woodcutter, who had found enough courage to desert them, mumbled an excuse and was gone.Night come but the woodcutter did not return home. Gretel began to cry.Hansel also felt scared but he tried to hide his feelings and comfort his sister."Don't cry, trust me! I swear I'll take you home even if Father doesn't come back for us!" Luckily the moon was full that night and Hansel waited till it through the trees."Now give me your hand!" he said. "We'll get home safely, you'll see!" The tiny white pebbles and in the moonlight, and the children found their way home. They t through a half-open window, without wakeup their parents. hansel and gretel was very Cold, tired but thankful god to be home again, they go into bed.the Next day, when their stepmother saw that Hansel and Gretel had returned, she went into a room. she anger in front of the children, she locked her bedroom door, she upsad to is husband for failing to carry out her orders. The weak woodcutter protested, torn as he was between shame and fear of cruel with wife. The wicked stepmother kept Hansel and Gretel under lock and key all day with nothing for food but a little of water and some hard bread. All night, husband and wife quarreled, and when dawn came, the woodcutter let the children out into the forest.Hansel, however, had not eaten his bread, and as he walked through the trees, he left a throw of crumbs behind him to mark the way home. But the little boy had forgotten about the hungry birds that lived in the forest. When they saw him, they along behind and in no time at all, had eaten all the crumbs. Again, with a excuse, the woodcutter left his two children in the forest alone."I've left a throw bread, like last time!" Hansel whispered to Gretel, please donot made noisy. But when night fell, they saw to their way home, that all the crumbs bread had gone and eat by a angry bird."I'm frightened!" Gretel cried . "I'm cold and hungry and I want to go home!""Don't be afraid. I'm here to look after you!" Hansel tried to his sister, but he try to when he frightening shadows and evil eyes around them in the darkness. All night the two children together for warmth at the foot of a large tree.When dawn broke, they started to wander about the forest, seeking a path, but all hope soon faded. They were well and truly lost. On they walked home but they try to walked, untill suddenly they came upon a strnage witch home in the middle of a clearing."This is chocolate!" gasped Hansel as he broke a lump of plaster from the wall."And this is icing!" exclaimed Gretel, putting another piece of wall in her mouth. it was fantic but delighted, the children began to eat pieces of candy broken off the home witch."Isn't this delicious?" said Gretel, with her mouth full. She had never tasted anything so nice."We'll stay here," Hansel a bit of nougat. They were just about to try a piece of the biscuit door when it quietly door open."Well, well!" said an old woman look witch. "And haven't you children a sweet tooth?""Come in! Come in, you've nothing to fear! and scared" went on the old woman said.Unluckily for Hansel and Gretel, however, the sugar candy cottage belonged to an old witch. It was her caught for catching unwary victims. The two children had come to a really bad place."You're nothing but skin and bones!" said the witch, locking Hansel into a cage. I shall fatten you up and eat you!""You can do the housework," she told Gretel crying, "then I'll make a meal of you too!" As luck would have it, the witch had very bad eyesight, and when Gretel took a butter on her glasses, she could see even less."Let me feel your finger!" said the witch to Hansel every day to check if he was getting any fatter. Now, Gretel had brought her brother a chicken bone, and when the witch went to touch his finger, Hansel held out the bone."You're still much too thin!" she complained. When will you become plump and fatter?"One day the witch grew tired of waiting."Light the oven," she told Gretel. "We're going to have a tasty roasted boy today!" A little later, hungry and impatient, she went on: "Run and see if the oven is hot enough." Gretel returned, wh "I can't tell if it is hot enough or not." Angrily, the witch screamed at the little girl: "Useless child! All right, I'll see for myself." But when the witch went down to peer inside the oven and check the heat, Gretel gave her a one push and bang the oven door shut. The witch had come to a fit and proper end. Gretel runway to set her brother free and they made sure that the oven door was tightly shut behind the witch. Inend, just to be on the safe side, they fastened it firmly with a large padlock. Then they stayed for several days to eat some more of the house, untill they eat amongst the witch's belongings, a huge chocolate egg. Inside lay a casket of gold coins."The witch is now burnt to a oven," said Hansel, "so we'll take this with us for home." They took a filled large basket with food and go off into the forest to search for the way home. This time, they was luck with them, and on the second day, they saw their father come out from the house towards them and give the big kiss. they stay happliy"Your stepmother has died. you welCome home with me now, my dear children!" The two children hugged the woodcutter."Promise you'll never ever scold us again," said Gretel, throwing her arms round her father's neck. Hansel opened the casket."Look, Father! We're rich now! You'll never have to chop wood again!"And they all lived happily together ever after.