Hansel And Grethel Alternate Ending

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On a brisk December morning there skipped two young children throughout the woods, covered in frost as white as milk. Their names were Hansel and Grethel. “Hansel,” Grethel had said,
“You must keep to the path dear brother, as not to find thyself in a predicament.” Hansel was not happy about this, as he had found a very tempting gold 5-pound piece resting on a rock.
He said to Grethel, “Fear not, dear sister. I shall only have to reach as far as my arm will go.”
As Hansel reached for the piece, his arm was grasped by a man who said, “Come, child, for I shall be eating you in time.”
When Grethel heard this, she attempted to run away, however, she was stopped by a second man and also captured. Screaming, they were both dragged into the wine cellar of an abandoned, decrepit old house, to be locked in for 7 days with no food and little water.
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Have you got any of the cookies and bread we brought with us?” “No Hansel, I haven’t. The men took them as they dragged me down here,” she said. Fumbling around like a dope a bumbling greyhound staggered into the cellar from an open hole on the top.
“May I ask, what is a mutt doing down here, sister?”, Hansel said. Not long after the question, the dog began to snarl. The mutt could sense someone coming. As sudden as the snarling, the basement door burst open with a shower of golden light. The light was soon blotted out by 3 figures in black. These people held machetes and hatchets in their hands, and had bows on their

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