"First your foot you tap, tap, tap,
Then your hands you clap, clap, clap;
Right foot first, left foot then,
Round about and back again."

Then, taking the Elder Bush, Gretel waved it above her head as the witch
had done.

Instantly the candy house became a log cabin. Sunflowers and
morning-glories were growing in the front yard, where the witch's cage
and the oven had stood.

Soon voices were heard. The sounds came nearer, and the father and
mother clasped their children in their arms.

Peter and Gertrude lived with the two children in the log cabin in the
forest, for many happy years. And the fairies always took good care of
both Hansel and Gretel.




THE EAGLE AND THE FOX


One morning the fox said to his children, "I will find some eggs for
breakfast."

Then he went to the woods.