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They walked the whole night long, and by break of day came once

more to their father's house. They knocked at the door, and when

the woman opened it and saw that it was Hansel and Gretel, she

said: 'You naughty children, why have you slept so long in the

forest?--we thought you were never coming back at all!' The

father, however, rejoiced, for it had cut him to the heart to

leave them behind alone.