 A peasant had remarried, and he and his new wife quarreled, and she abused her stepdaughter Elsa.One day, the children were gathering strawberries when a boy realized they were in the Tontlawald; the rest ran off, but Elsa did not think the woods could be worse than her stepmother.She met a little black dog with a silver collar, and a maiden dressed in silk who asked her to stay and be her friend.