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Good evening, children.

It's Granny MacDuff, ready with a story.

So make yourselves comfy, and I'll begin. Once upon a time, near the edge of a great forest, lived a woodcutter and his wife with their two children, a boy named Hansel and a girl named Gretel.

Although the children called the woman mother, she was in fact not their mother, but their stepmother.

The family was very poor and often did not have enough to eat.

One night, after Hansel and Grattle had gone to bed, the woodcutter and his wife talked about their troubles.

The woodcutter sighed and said, What will become of us?

We do not have enough for ourselves, let alone our poor children.

Husband, I know what must be done, said his wife.

Tomorrow at dawn we will take the children into the forest to where the trees are thickest.

We will light a fire and give each one a piece of bread.

Then we will leave them to go do our work,

and we shall not return. They will not be able to find their way home, and we shall be free of them.

No, wife, I will not do that, said the man. I could never leave my children alone in the forest

for beasts to come and tear apart. Oh, you are a fool. If you refuse,

then you should begin to prepare four coffins, for we shall all four certainly starve to death.

The woman gave her husband no peace all night until he consented to her plan, but warned her,

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