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1There was once a cook named Gretel, who wore shoes with red heels, and when she walked out with them on, she turned
2herself this way and that, was quite happy and thought: 'You certainly are a pretty girl!' And when she came home she
3drank, in her gladness of heart, a draught of wine, and as wine excites a desire to eat, she tasted the best of whatever
4she was cooking until she was satisfied, and said: 'The cook must know what the food is like.' It came to pass that the
5master one day said to her: 'Gretel, there is a guest coming this evening; prepare me two fowls very daintily.' 'I will
6see to it, master,' answered Gretel. She killed two fowls, scalded them, plucked them, put them on the spit, and towards
7evening set them before the fire, that they might roast. The fowls began to turn brown, and were nearly ready, but the
8guest had not yet arrived. Then Gretel called out to her master: 'If the guest does not come, I must take the fowls away
9from the fire, but it will be a sin and a shame if they are not eaten the moment they are at their juiciest.' The master
10said: 'I will run myself, and fetch the guest.' When the master had turned his back, Gretel laid the spit with the fowls
11on one side, and thought: 'Standing so long by the fire there, makes one sweat and thirsty; who knows when they will
12come? Meanwhile, I will run into the cellar, and take a drink.' She ran down, set a jug, said: 'God bless it for you,
13Gretel,' and took a good drink, and thought that wine should flow on, and should not be interrupted, and took yet
14another hearty draught. Then she went and put the fowls down again to the fire, basted them, and drove the spit merrily
15round. But as the roast meat smelt so good, Gretel thought: 'Something might be wrong, it ought to be tasted!' She
16touched it with her finger, and said: 'Ah! how good fowls are! It certainly is a sin and a shame that they are not eaten
17at the right time!' She ran to the window, to see if the master was not coming with his guest, but she saw no one, and
18went back to the fowls and thought: 'One of the wings is burning! I had better take it off and eat it.' So she cut it
19off, ate it, and enjoyed it, and when she had done, she thought: 'The other must go down too, or else master will
20observe that something is missing.' When the two wings were eaten, she went and looked for her master, and did not see
21him. It suddenly occurred to her: 'Who knows? They are perhaps not coming at all, and have turned in somewhere.' Then
22she said: 'Well, Gretel, enjoy yourself, one fowl has been cut into, take another drink, and eat it up entirely; when it
23is eaten you will have some peace, why should God's good gifts be spoilt?' So she ran into the cellar again, took an
24enormous drink and ate up the one chicken in great glee. When one of the chickens was swallowed down, and still her
25master did not come, Gretel looked at the other and said: 'What one is, the other should be likewise, the two go
26together; what's right for the one is right for the other; I think if I were to take another draught it would do me no
27harm.' So she took another hearty drink, and let the second chicken follow the first. While she was making the most of
28it, her master came and cried: 'Hurry up, Gretel, the guest is coming directly after me!' 'Yes, sir, I will soon serve
29up,' answered Gretel. Meantime the master looked to see that the table was properly laid, and took the great knife,
30wherewith he was going to carve the chickens, and sharpened it on the steps. Presently the guest came, and knocked
31politely and courteously at the house-door. Gretel ran, and looked to see who was there, and when she saw the guest, she
32put her finger to her lips and said: 'Hush! hush! go away as quickly as you can, if my master catches you it will be the
33worse for you; he certainly did ask you to supper, but his intention is to cut off your two ears. Just listen how he is
34sharpening the knife for it!' The guest heard the sharpening, and hurried down the steps again as fast as he could.
35Gretel was not idle; she ran screaming to her master, and cried: 'You have invited a fine guest!' 'Why, Gretel? What do
36you mean by that?' 'Yes,' said she, 'he has taken the chickens which I was just going to serve up, off the dish, and has
37run away with them!' 'That's a nice trick!' said her master, and lamented the fine chickens. 'If he had but left me one,
38so that something remained for me to eat.' He called to him to stop, but the guest pretended not to hear. Then he ran
39after him with the knife still in his hand, crying: 'Just one, just one,' meaning that the guest should leave him just
40one chicken, and not take both. The guest, however, thought no otherwise than that he was to give up one of his ears,
41and ran as if fire were burning under him, in order to take them both with him. There was once a very old man, whose
42eyes had become dim, his ears dull of hearing, his knees trembled, and when he sat at table he could hardly hold the
43spoon, and spilt the broth upon the table-cloth or let it run out of his mouth. His son and his son's wife were
44disgusted at this, so the old grandfather at last had to sit in the corner behind the stove, and they gave him his food
45in an earthenware bowl, and not even enough of it. And he used to look towards the table with his eyes full of tears.
46Once, too, his trembling hands could not hold the bowl, and it fell to the ground and broke. The young wife scolded him,
47but he said nothing and only sighed. Then they brought him a wooden bowl for a few half-pence, out of which he had to
48eat. They were once sitting thus when the little grandson of four years old began to gather together some bits of wood
49upon the ground. 'What are you doing there?' asked the father. 'I am making a little trough,' answered the child, 'for
50father and mother to eat out of when I am big.' The man and his wife looked at each other for a while, and presently
51began to cry. Then they took the old grandfather to the table, and henceforth always let him eat with them, and likewise
52said nothing if he did spill a little of anything.
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