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Date:         Sun, 9 Oct 1994 23:36:55 EDT
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From:         what tink? <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Subject:      EXERCISE:  Hansel and Gretel

You remember the kiddy tale?

Brother and sister, out of the house, into the woods, and wow!

Gingerbread house, bad old witch pretending there are better goodies
inside, and eventually trying to pop the kids into the oven?

(okay, so maybe I've got the wrong kids in the story.  I doubt they're
going to sue me for libel...)

Anyway, a fairly simple story of temptation and greed, intended to
provide a horrible example of what can happen if you (yes YOU!) dare to
go wandering out in the woods trusting weird little witches and other
hobgoblins of the outer forests...

So...

1.  Pick a fairy tale (Hansel and Gretel do spring to mind...)

2.  REVISE... very few kids now need to be warned about getting lost in
the woods or strange hermits and witches living by themselves.  On the
other hand, there are some rather odd trolls and other visitors hanging
around street corners and other locales.  Gingerbread... I'll bet
parents wish that was the worst threat to health that the kids faced.

3.  Write it up!  The Bubblegum Gang meets the Man who Lives in a
Trashcan?  Why not?

and away the tapping fingers write...

tink