Hansel and Gretel's Escape

But Hansel comforted her, saying, “Wait a little while longer,

until the moon rises, and then we can easily find the way home.”

And when the full moon got up Hansel took his little sister by the hand,

and followed the way where the flint stones shone like silver, and showed them

the road. They walked on the whole night through, and at the break

of day they came to their father’s house. They knocked at the door,

and when the wife opened it and saw it was Hansel and Gretel she said,

“You naughty children, why did you sleep so long in the wood? We thought you were