Identifier: householdstories00grim (find matches)
Title: Household stories from the collection of the Bros. Grimm
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Grimm, Jacob, 1785-1863 Grimm, Wilhelm, 1786-1859 Crane, Lucy, 1842-1882 Crane, Walter, 1845-1915
Subjects: Fairy tales
Publisher: London : Macmillan & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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pped out ofher hand and fell in. Then she began to cry, and ran toher step-mother, and told her of her misfortune ; and her step-mother scolded her without mercy, and said in her rage, As you have let the spindle fall in, you must go andfetch it out again ! Then the girl went back again to the well, not knowingwhat to do, and in the despair of her heart she jumped downinto the well the same way the spindle had gone. After thatshe knew nothing; and when she came to herself she was ina beautiful meadow, and the sun was shining on the flowersthat grew round her. And she walked on through themeadow until she came to a bakers oven that was full ofbread; and the bread called out to her, Oh, take me out, take me out, or I shall burn; I ambaked enough already ! Then she drew near, and with the bakers peel she tookout all the loaves one after the other. And she went farther TO- DO,«N DIN THE • oe_$r»AiR HEART * SHE *J\JFV1PED*DOWN IIS.TOTHE WE LL THE 5Arvi£ • WAY *1H C - SPINDLE HAD •
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To face page 128 MOTHER HULDA. 129 on till she came to a tree weighed down with apples, and itcalled out to her, Oh, shake me, shake me, we apples are all of us ripe ! Then she shook the tree until the apples fell like rain, andshe shook until there were no more to fall; and when she hadgathered them together in a heap, she went on farther. Atlast she came to a little house, and an old woman was peepingout of it, but she had such great teeth that the girl was terrifiedand about to run away, only the old woman called her back. What are you afraid of, my dear child ? Come and livewith me, and if you do the house-work well and orderly, thingsshall go well with you. You must take great pains to make mybed well, and shake it up thoroughly, so that the feathers flyabout, and then in the world it snows, for I am MotherHulda.* As the old woman spoke so kindly, the girl took courage,consented, and went to her work. She did everything to theold womans satisfaction, and shook the bed with such a

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