Woodcutter and wife very poor. Food runs out.
Wife: give children last bread, lose them in forest.
Husband hates the idea but knows they will starve at home.
Hansel collects white stones. Leaves trail back home.
Next time, drops the bread crumbs.
But the birds ate them.
Became very lost.
Found house made of food.
Owner gives them more.
Planned to eat them.
Shut Hansel in stable, made Gretel cook food.
(Four weeks later)
Told Gretel to climb into the oven to see if it is hot.
Gretel acted dumb.
Witch showed her by climbing in. Fell over and burnt to death.
Rejoice. And took her pearls (instead of the white stones)
On way home: cannot cross river.
Duck carries them across, one at a time.
Find their way home. Father is overjoyed. And bad wife is dead.
Happily ever after.
"My tale is done, there runs a mouse, whosoever catches it, may make himself a big, big fur cap out of it!"
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