One day when she’s in the kitchen, Gretel has an idea. She calls the witch and asks, “How do you turn on the oven?” Then she pushes the witch into the oven.

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Day after day passed. Gretel was soon tried out, for the witch made her clean and scrub, and cook huge meals for poor Hansel.

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Gretel began to cry, but the wicked witch only laughed at her tears.

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