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 in reality a witch , and she knew perfectly well that the two children had run away . She had crept secretly after them , and had cast her spells over all the streams in the forest . Presently the children found a little brook dancing and glittering over the stones , and brother was eager to drink of it , but as it rushed past sister heard it murmuring : ` Who drinks of me will be a tiger ! who drinks of me will be a tiger ! ' So she cried out , ` Oh ! dear brother , pray do n't drink , or you 'll be turned into a wild beast and tear me to pieces . ' Brother was dreadfully thirsty , but he did not drink . ` Very well , ' said he , ` I 'll wait till we come to the next spring . '
When they came XXXXX the second brook , sister heard it repeating too : ` Who drinks of me will be a wolf I who drinks of me will be a wolf ! '
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