One morning, Hansel and Gretel's mother said to the children, "Today you'll both go to town to take a message for me." "But be careful,"she warned them, "and don't leave the road, you could get lost.
There was once a King and Queen who were childless. They prayed that they might have a family and, at last, their prayers were answered and the Queen gave birth to a a very beautiful daughter.
There was once a miller who was very poor. He had three sons. The elder sons were lazy, but the youngest was hard-working. When the miller died, there were only his mill, his donkey and his cat to leave to his sons. The eldest son took the mill, the second son took the donkey and the youngest son had only the cat, which he had saved from being drowned by his brothers.