![]() ![]() ![]() The man, who loved her dearly, thought to himself, `Come! Rather than let your wife die you shall fetch her some rampion, no matter the cost.’ So at dusk he climbed over the wall into the witch’s garden, and, hastily gathering a handful of rampion leaves, he returned with them to his wife. `Oh,’ she answered, `if I don’t get some rampion to eat out of the garden behind the house, I know I shall die.’ The desire grew day by day, and just because she knew she couldn’t possibly get any, she pined away and became quite pale and wretched. One day the woman stood at the window overlooking the garden, and saw there a bed full of the finest rampion: the leaves looked so fresh and green that she longed to eat them. These good people had a little window at the back of their house, which looked into the most lovely garden, full of all manner of beautiful flowers and vegetables but the garden was surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared to enter it, for it belonged to a witch of great power, who was feared by the whole world. Once upon a time there lived a man and his wife who were very unhappy because they had no children.
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