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They are perhaps not coming at all, and have turned in

somewhere.' Then she said: 'Well, Gretel, enjoy yourself, one

fowl has been cut into, take another drink, and eat it up

entirely; when it is eaten you will have some peace, why should

God's good gifts be spoilt?' So she ran into the cellar again,

took an enormous drink and ate up the one chicken in great glee.

When one of the chickens was swallowed down, and still her master

did not come, Gretel looked at the other and said: 'What one is,

the other should be likewise, the two go together; 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 harm.' So she took another

hearty drink, and let the second chicken follow the first.