Silk folds up so small the witch won't see it. "Bring me a ball of silk each time you come. “But I will be back tomorrow.” Rapunzel threw her braid out the window, and the prince climbed down. At last, Rapunzel said he must go - the witch may come back at any time! “Very well,” said the prince. He told her about puppies and puddles, strawberries and secrets.
He told Rapunzel about flowers and festivals, games and gardens. “But the world is not as bad as she says!” said the prince. She told him that since the world was such a very bad place, she must always stay in the tower room. “It may be the only thing I like, since I must stay here in this same old tower, day after day, my whole life long.” Rapunzel told the prince about the witch. You have a beautiful voice! And I love it when the birds sing with you, too.” “Since I have heard you sing songs from up here day after day. “I feel as if I know you,” said the prince. She had never seen a person up close before other than the witch, and never a man! “Who are you?” she said in fear. You can be sure that Rapunzel was very surprised to see the prince climb into her window.
In a voice that sounded as much like the witch as he could, he called out, “Rapunzel, Rapunzel! Let down your hair!” In a moment, the same long blond braid came out of the window. The witch climbed back down the tower wall. Thanks to Hanshal, Age 6 Karnataka, IndiaĪfter a bit, the braid was thrown from the window again. Once the stairs were gone, when it was time for the witch to visit her in the tower, she would call from outside, “Rapunzel, Rapunzel! Let down your hair!” Now there was no way for Rapunzel to escape!īy then, Rapunzel’s hair had grown very, very long. With her power, she made all the stairs in the tower fall down. I will run down the stairs and outside, no matter what you say!” On her 12 th birthday, Rapunzel said to the witch, “I do not care what you say anymore! I am so tired of staying here alone all the time! When you are gone, I will chip away at the door. The world is much worse than you think! You will stay in this tower forever, Rapunzel. "But is it really so bad out there? Sometimes I hear people laughing down below," Rapunzel would say sometimes.Īt such times the witch would yell, "How many times do I have to repeat myself? Don't listen to anything you see or hear out there. That was why she could not leave the tower.Īs she grew up, many times Rapunzel said to the witch, “There is nothing here for me to do! Why must I stay in this tower all the time?”Īnd the witch shouted back, “I already told you so many times! The world is a very bad place. She told the girl that the world was a very bad place. “I…uh…am getting lettuce for my wife,” said the carpenter.Īll the witch could do was keep the child locked in the room at the very top of the tower. His wife ate up the lettuce right away.īut eating the lettuce only made her want more! If she could not have more lettuce, she said, there was nothing she would eat at all! So the next night, the carpenter climbed back over the garden wall. With more quiet steps, he went back over the garden wall. With very quiet steps, he took one green head of lettuce. What could the carpenter do? Late that night, he climbed over the garden wall. “If I cannot have that lettuce,” said the wife, “I will not eat anything at all! I will die!"
“You know as well as I do that the garden belongs to the witch, who lives next door.” How fresh-looking were those big green heads of lettuce! “It is just what I need to eat!” said the wife to her husband. One day the wife was looking down at the garden from her window. Such fine fresh rows of plants and flowers there were! But no one dared to go over the garden wall to see them up close. From the second floor window of their small house, the wife could see into the garden next door.
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