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the wood-cutter asked the children to go grab some wood. Well, if I had happened to be one of those kids, I'd have said "No," but they were good kids, so they obeyed. What someone might think odd, is that the wood-cutter didn't gather the wood, or even cut any wood out in that patch of woods. The wife tied a branch to a tree (Where did she get string?), so that when the wind blew, it sounded like the wood-cutter was cutting wood (Ah.), but the downfall of this plan was that there was no wind on this day.

The kids fell asleep after eating a small part of bread, and when they awoke, it was night time. Hansel said, "We can follow my trail back to the house if we wait for the moonlight to shine." So they did. They arrived at the house and the wife answered the door, and said, "Why have you kept us waiting so long? We were worried about you," the wife said, grimacing. "No you weren't", said Hansel, in what was an unusually calm voice.

That night, the parents had the same conversation, except the insane wife said to lead them deeper into the forest this time. Hansel tried to go out and grab some more pebbles after he heard the conversation and the old geezers (Were they really that old?) went to sleep, but the door was locked. "Don't worry, we'll find a way out of this one.", he said comforting the crying Gretel.

Hansel used his piece of bread to leave a track this time, and when the night arrived, and they went to follow it, it was not there; the birds had been just as hungry as the weird little children. They chose a way, unknowing of where it led, and walked. Three long days passed (Without eating? Drinking? They really are weird), and finally they reached a house. It was a house made of gingerbread; cakes decorated the house and clear sugar was the glass to the windows. "A house of food!", cried Hansel. You may think, "What is a house of food doing in the middle of the forest?" Well, I wouldn't be the one to tell you that, for I have no idea. (Why didn't the birds eat that instead of measly bread?) "You can lick some windows, while I munch on some of the roof.", said Hansel. Another question might be how he reached the roof, but I can answer that one. It was a low hung roof.

Soon, much sooner than they had hoped, a sweet, soft voice sounded, "Nibble, nibble, gnaw, gnaw. Who is nibbling my house raw?" The children, unknowingly creating another odd question of how they said it at the same time, said, "It is nothing but the wind." The children continued eating themselves

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