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Updated: May 31, 2025
The little thing was much too small to be entrusted with the care of sheep, and her life had been made wretched by fear of the great dogs which were never absent from the flocks, and by the dark rumors of wolves which the shepherds were forever repeating. Grettel expressed her opinion of the case without reserve.
He seemed to be listening intently, and also with a certain faint, dawning hope. At the very same time Everychild lifted his head also and listened, but as he did so he clasped his hands with dread. And also Prince Arthur and Cinderella and Hansel and Grettel and the other children lifted their heads and listened.
Will o'Dreams led them; and there followed Hansel and Grettel, Little Bo-Peep and Little Boy Blue, Prince Arthur and Tom Hubbard, the children of the Old Woman who lived in a shoe, and last of all the little black dog. Only Cinderella, with a certain strange quiet upon her, remained in her place, while the Masked Lady and Mr. Literal stood regarding her.
He had not even seen Hansel and Grettel! Everychild looked after the retreating Mr. Literal until he remembered suddenly that he had asked Hansel and Grettel to go along with him. Then he heard Grettel say in a really eager voice: "A quest of Truth! That sounds very interesting to me!"
It was then that Everychild stepped forward. "I know you," he said, trying to seem really friendly. "You are Hansel and Grettel. Your parents lost you in the woods to be rid of you because there wasn't enough to eat at home." Hansel and Grettel looked at each other with round eyes. "It is true," they replied in unison. "But to think it should have got about already! Who are you?"
As he drew near Hansel said: "Hello! Have they been trying to lose you too?" It was then that Everychild recognized the strange youth as Jack the Giant Killer; and at the same time he heard Grettel whispering: "How handsome he is!" Jack the Giant Killer replied smilingly to Hansel: "Lose me? Not at all! It's plain you don't know who I am." He touched his breast lightly with his forefinger.
And the genie made a salaam which delighted Grettel particularly, and then he began to pluck things out of the air just as the magician in the theater does: a small stove from which a blue flame arose; a sauce-pan; a nice table covered with a white cloth; plates and knives and forks everything. He placed a white cap on his head and held the sauce-pan over the blue flame.
It was Grettel who replied to Jack. "Dear me!" she exclaimed incredulously, "How shall you do it?" "I haven't thought of a way yet," was the response. "It takes wit, you know. I'll think of a way before long. Don't speak so loud." The giant had come quite close to them by this time. "Good morning," he said pleasantly.
Then Hansel said to Everychild: "I don't mind going with you. Only, you'll have to let Grettel go along too and you can't go very far with a girl without something happening." "Of course, she'd go along," said Everychild. "As for something happening, it might be something nice more likely than not." At this Grettel clasped her hands in ecstacy. "What a nice boy!" she exclaimed.
I've always wanted to do whatever I pleased in my best dress, and I'm not going to miss the chance now!" Hansel looked knowingly at Everychild, and jerked his head toward Grettel. "Females!" he said. "That's why you have to sit on them. They're like kites. Once you let them go they're over in the next field standing on their heads." But Everychild thought he should rather talk to Grettel.
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