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Clever Gretel

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The cook Gretel eats the meal of her master and his guest, but gets away with it by her cleverness.

Der Froschkönig oder der eiserne Heinrich
Katze und Maus in Gesellschaft
Marienkind
Von einem, der auszog, das Fürchten zu lernen
Der Wolf und die sieben jungen Geißlein
Der treue Johannes
Der gute Handel
Der wunderliche Spielmann
Die zwölf Brüder
Das Lumpengesindel
Brüderchen und Schwesterchen
Rapunzel
Die drei Männlein im Walde
Die drei Spinnerinnen
Hänsel und Gretel
Die drei Schlangenblätter
Die weiße Schlange
Strohhalm, Kohle und Bohne
Von dem Fischer und seiner Frau
Das tapfere Schneiderlein
Aschenputtel
Das Rätsel
Von dem Mäuschen, Vögelchen und der Bratwurst
Frau Holle
Die sieben Raben
Rotkäppchen
Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten
Der singende Knochen
Der Teufel mit den drei goldenen Haaren
Läuschen und Flöhchen
Das Mädchen ohne Hände
Der gescheite Hans
Die drei Sprachen
Die kluge Else
Der Schneider im Himmel
Tischchen deck dich, Goldesel und Knüppel aus dem Sack
Daumesdick
Die Hochzeit der Frau Füchsin
Die Wichtelmänner
Der Räuberbräutigam
Herr Korbes
Der Herr Gevatter
Frau Trude
Der Gevatter Tod
Daumerlings Wanderschaft
Fitchers Vogel
Von dem Machandelboom
Der alte Sultan
Die sechs Schwäne
Dornröschen
Fundevogel
König Drosselbart
Schneewittchen
Der Ranzen, das Hütlein und das Hörnlein
Rumpelstilzchen
Der liebste Roland
Der goldene Vogel
Der Hund und der Sperling
Der Frieder und das Katherlieschen
Die zwei Brüder
Das Bürle
Die Bienenkönigin
Die drei Federn
Die goldene Gans
Allerleirauh
Häsichenbraut
Die zwölf Jäger
Von dem Sommer- und Wintergarten
Jorinde und Joringel
Die drei Glückskinder
Sechse kommen durch die ganze Welt
Der Wolf und der Mensch
Der Wolf und der Fuchs
Der Fuchs und die Frau Gevatterin
Der Fuchs und die Katze
Die Nelke
Das kluge Gretel
Der alte Großvater und der Enkel
Die Wassernixe
Von dem Tode des Hühnchens
Bruder Lustig
Der Spielhansl
Hans im Glück
Hans heiratet
Die Goldkinder
Der Fuchs und die Gänse
Der Arme und der Reiche
Das singende, springende Löweneckerchen
Die Gänsemagd
Der junge Riese
Das Erdmännchen
Der König vom goldenen Berg
Die Rabe
Die kluge Bauerntochter
Der alte Hildebrand
Die drei Vögelchen
Das Wasser des Lebens
Doktor Allwissend
Der Geist im Glas
Des Teufels rußiger Bruder
Der Bärenhäuter
Der Zaunkönig und der Bär
Der süße Brei
Die klugen Leute
Märchen von der Unke
Der arme Müllerbursch und das Kätzchen
Die beiden Wanderer
Hans mein Igel
Das Totenhemdchen
Der Jude im Dorn
Der gelernte Jäger
Der Dreschflegel vom Himmel
Die beiden Königskinder
Vom klugen Schneiderlein
Die klare Sonne bringts an den Tag
Das blaue Licht
Das eigensinnige Kind
Die drei Feldscherer
Die sieben Schwaben
Die drei Handwerksburschen
Der Königssohn, der sich vor nichts fürchtet
Der Krautesel
Die Alte im Wald
Die drei Brüder
Der Teufel und seine Großmutter
Ferdinand getreu und Ferdinand ungetreu
Der Eisenofen
Die faule Spinnerin
Die vier kunstreichen Brüder
Einäuglein, Zweiäuglein und Dreiäuglein
Die schöne Katrinelje und Pif Paf Poltrie
Der Fuchs und das Pferd
Die zertanzten Schuhe
Die sechs Diener
Die weiße und die schwarze Braut
Der Eisenhans
Die drei schwarzen Prinzessinnen
Knoist und seine drei Söhne
Das Mädchen von Brakel
Das Hausgesinde
Das Lämmchen und Fischchen
Simeliberg
Auf Reisen gehen
Das Eselein
Der undankbare Sohn
Die Rübe
Das junggeglühte Männlein
Des Herrn und des Teufels Getier
Der Hahnenbalken
Die alte Bettelfrau
Die drei Faulen
Das Hirtenbüblein
Die Sterntaler
Der gestohlene Heller
Die Brautschau
Die Schlickerlinge
Der Sperling und seine vier Kinder
Das Märchen vom Schlaraffenland
Das Dietmarsische Lügenmärchen
Rätselmärchen
Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot
Der kluge Knecht
Der gläserne Sarg
Der faule Heinz
Der Vogel Greif
Der starke Hans
Das Bürle im Himmel
Die hagere Liese
Das Waldhaus
Lieb und Leid teilen
Der Zaunkönig
Die Scholle
Rohrdommel und Wiedehopf
Die Eule
Der Mond
Die Lebenszeit
Die Boten des Todes
Meister Pfriem
Die Gänsehirtin am Brunnen
Die ungleichen Kinder Evas
Die Nixe im Teich
Die Geschenke des kleinen Volkes
Der Riese und der Schneider
Der Nagel
Der arme Junge im Grab
Die wahre Braut
Der Hase und der Igel
Spindel, Weberschiffchen und Nadel
Der Bauer und der Teufel
Die Brosamen auf dem Tisch
Das Meerhäschen
Der Meisterdieb
Der Trommler
Die Kornähre
Der Grabhügel
Oll Rinkrank
Die Kristallkugel
Jungfrau Maleen
Die Stiefel von Büffelleder
Der goldene Schlüssel

There was a cook, her name was Gretel, who wore shoes with red heels, and when she went out in them, she turned to and fro, was quite cheerful, and thought 'you are a beautiful girl. And when she came home, she drank a sip of wine out of happiness, and because wine also makes you want to eat, she tried the best she had cooked until she was full, and said, "The cook must know how food tastes.

It happened that the master once said to her, 'Gretel, a guest is coming tonight, prepare two chickens for me,' 'I'll do it, master,' Grethel answered. Now Grethel stabbed the chickens, scalded them, plucked them, put them on the spit, and brought them, as evening approached, to the fire, so that they should roast. The chickens were beginning to turn brown and gahr, but the guest had not yet arrived. Then Gretel called to the master, 'If the guest does not come, I must put the chickens from the fire, but it is a pity and a shame if they are not eaten soon, when they are best in juice. Said the lord, 'I will run and fetch the guest myself. When the master had turned his back, Gretel put the spit with the chickens aside and thought, 'standing there by the fire for so long makes you sweat and thirsty, who knows when they will come! She ran down, put on a jug, said 'God bless you, Grethel,' and took a good draught. The wine hangs on each other,' he continued, 'and is not good to break off,' and took another serious draught. Now he went and put the chickens back over the fire, spread them with butter and drove the spit around merrily.

But because the roast smelled so good, Grethel thought 'something could be missing, it must be tried!' licked with her finger and said 'ei, what are the chickens so good! it is a sin and a shame that one does not eat them immediately! He ran to the window to see if the master with the guest was not yet coming, but no one saw him: he went back to the chickens, thought "one wing is burning, it's better I eat it away. So he cut it off and ate it, and it tasted good to him: and when he was done with it, he thought 'the other one must come down too, otherwise the master will notice that something is missing'. When the two wings were eaten, he went again and looked for the master, but did not see him. Who knows,' it occurred to him, 'they might not be coming at all, and have gone somewhere. Then he said, "Hey, Grethel, be in good spirits, the one thing that has been attacked, have another fresh drink, and eat it up completely, when it is all over, you will have peace: why should the good gift of God perish? So he ran down to the cellar once more, made an honorable drink, and ate the one chicken with all joy. When the one chicken was down, and the master still did not come, Grethel looked at the other, and said 'where the one is, there must also be the other, the two belong together: what is right for the one is right for the other; I think if I take another drink, it should not hurt me. So he took another hearty drink, and let the second chicken run to the other again.
As the meal was in its best state, the master came along and called out, 'Hurry up, Grethel, the guest will be along in a minute.' 'Yes, sir, I'll get it ready,' Grethel answered. Meanwhile, the master saw if the table was well set, took the large knife with which he wanted to cut the chickens, and sharpened it in the hallway. Then the guest came and knocked politely on the front door. Gretel ran and looked to see who was there, and when she saw the guest, she held her finger to her mouth and said, "Quiet! Quiet! Make haste that you come away again, if my master catches you, you will be unhappy; he has invited you to dinner, but he has nothing else in mind than to cut off both your ears.

Just listen how he sharpens the knife.' The guest heard the sharpening and hurried what he could down the stairs again. Grethel was not lazy, ran screaming to the master and shouted 'you have invited a beautiful guest!' 'Why, Gretel, what do you mean by that?' 'Yes,' she said, 'he has taken both chickens, which I was about to serve, from the dish and ran away with them. That is a fine way!' said the master, and he was sorry for the beautiful chickens, 'if he had at least left me the one, so that I would have had something to eat. He called after him to stay, but the guest pretended not to hear. Then he ran after him, the knife still in his hand, and shouted 'only one! only one!' and meant that the guest should leave him only one chicken, and not take both of them: but the guest meant nothing else than that he should give away one of his ears, and ran as if fire were burning under him, so that he might bring them both home.

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