At last , the night falling , they returned desolate to Hamel . But the most unhappy of all was the Town Counsellor , for he lost three little boys and two pretty little girls , and to crown all , the people of Hamel overwhelmed him with reproaches , forgetting that the evening before they had all agreed with him . What had become of all these unfortunate children ? The parents always hoped they were not dead , and that the rat-catcher , who certainly must have come out of the mountain , would have taken them with him to his country . That is why for several years they sent in search of them to different countries , but no one ever came on the trace of the poor little ones . It was not till much later that anything was to be heard of them . About one hundred and fifty years after the event , when there was no longer one left of the fathers , mothers , brothers or sisters of that day , there arrived one evening in Hamel some merchants of Bremen returning from the East , who asked to speak with the citizens . They told that they , in crossing Hungary , had sojourned in a mountainous country called Transylvania , where the inhabitants only spoke German , while all around them nothing was spoken but Hungarian . These people also declared that they came from Germany , but they did not know how they chanced to be in this strange country . ` Now , ' said the merchants of Bremen , ` these Germans can not be other than the descendants of the lost children of Hamel . ' The people of Hamel did not doubt it ; and since that day they regard it as certain that the Transylvanians of Hungary are their country folk , whose ancestors , as children , were brought there by the ratcatcher . There are more difficult things to believe than that . -LRB- 16 -RRB- -LRB- 16 -RRB- Ch . Marelles . THE TRUE HISTORY OF LITTLE GOLDEN HOOD YOU know the tale of poor Little Red Riding-hood , that the Wolf deceived and devoured , with her cake , her little butter can , and her Grandmother ; well , the true story happened quite differently , as we know now . And first of all the little girl was called and is still called Little Golden-hood ; secondly , it was not she , nor the good grand-dame , but the wicked Wolf who was , in the end , caught and devoured . Only listen . The story begins something like the tale . There was once a little peasant girl , pretty and nice as a star in its season . Her real name was Blanchette , but she was more often called Little Golden-hood , on account of a wonderful little cloak with a hood , gold - and fire-coloured , which she always had on .
This little hood was given her by her Grandmother , who was so old that she did not know her age ; it ought XXXXX bring her good luck , for it was made of a ray of sunshine , she said .
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