asked the Governor . ` Oh , I am asking you what you have done with the night-gown and sheet that you got to wipe the blood off yourself with , ' said she . ` Good heavens ! ' said the Governor , ` has he actually got the better of me again ? ' When day came the Master Thief came too , and wanted to have the Governor 's daughter as had been promised , and the Governor dared do no otherwise than give her to him , and much money besides , for he feared that if he did not the Master Thief might steal the very eyes out of his head , and that he himself would be ill spoken of by all men . The Master Thief lived well and happily from that time forth , and whether he ever stole any more or not I can not tell you , but if he did it was but for pastime . -LRB- 5 -RRB- From P. C. Asbjornsen . BROTHER AND SISTER BROTHER took sister by the hand and said : ` Look here ; we have n't had one single happy hour since our mother died . That stepmother of ours beats us regularly every day , and if we dare go near her she kicks us away . We never get anything but hard dry crusts to eat -- why , the dog under the table is better off than we are . She does throw him a good morsel or two now and then . Oh dear ! if our own dear mother only knew all about it ! Come along , and let us go forth into the wide world together . ' So off they started through fields and meadows , over hedges and ditches , and walked the whole day long , and when it rained sister said : ` Heaven and our hearts are weeping together . ' Towards evening they came to a large forest , and were so tired out with hunger and their long walk , as well as all their trouble , that they crept into a hollow tree and soon fell fast asleep . Next morning , when they woke up , the sun was already high in the heavens and was shining down bright and warm into the tree . Then said brother : ` I 'm so thirsty , sister ; if I did but know where to find a little stream , I 'd go and have a drink . I do believe I hear one . ' He jumped up , took sister by the hand , and they set off to hunt for the brook .
Now their cruel stepmother was XXXXX reality a witch , and she knew perfectly well that the two children had run away .
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