Household Tales, by Brothers Grimm  Sweetheart Roland  There was
once on a time a woman who was a real witch and had two
daughters, one ugly and wicked, and this one she loved because
she was her own daughter, and one beautiful and good, and this
one she hated, because she was her step-daughter. The step-
daughter once had a pretty apron, which the other fancied so
much that she became envious, and told her mother that she must
and would have that apron. “Be quiet, my child,” said the old
woman, “and thou shalt have it. Thy step-sister has long
deserved death, to-night when she is asleep I will come and cut
her head off. Only be careful that thou art at the far-side of
the bed, and push her well to the front.” It would have been all
over with the poor girl if she had not just then been standing
in a corner, and heard everything. All day long she dared not go
out of doors, and when bed-time had come, the witch’s daughter
got into bed first, so as to lie at the far side, but when she
was asleep, the other pushed