Forests, meadows

A long time ago, a mother and father had two children. One was the daughter, she was the eldest, and the son was the younger child. One day, the mother and father went to work, but the children stayed at home. The mother and father said to the older child: 
    "Don't leave him to play with the other children in the village, play with your brother!" 
    And the mother made the son sit on the green grass in the yard and gave him a golden egg. The children started playing outside. Father and mother went to work. The children played as long as they played, but the older child still went to visit the other children to play. She left her little brother alone outside with a golden egg in his hand. In the meantime, some cranes flew by and took the little boy with the golden egg away from the yard. The little girl ran home and saw her brother was no longer outside. She watched the cranes fly away, holding her little brother. The girl started running in the direction where the cranes were flying. She ran and ran, and happened upon an appletree.     
    "Dear apple tree, show me which way the cranes flew!" 
    The tree answered: "Run on!"
    The girl again ran and ran, and came across a maple tree. 
    "Honey  maple tree, tell me which way the cranes flew!" 
    "Run on!" 
    She started running again, running and running, and happened upon a stream. She asked the stream: 
    "Dear brook, show me which way the cranes flew!"
    The stream answered her: "Run on!"
    Again the girl ran on and reached a house. She looked and saw her little brother playing with the golden egg in the window. The girl wondered: “Who lives in this house?” She didn't see anyone but one little granny, whose sons had gone wandering. Then the girl broke the window, grabbed her little brother and started running towards home. She ran as far as she could run and the cranes flew and started beating at her. They wanted to take the child away. 
    She reached the stream and began to beg: "Dear brook, hide me! The cranes really want to kill me." 
    The brook said: "Taste my banks, and I will hide you!" 
    The girl tasted the brook's water, and the brook hid the girl in its banks. The cranes were flying and flying over the stream, but the girl and the child were nowhere to be seen, so they flew away. The cranes had flown away and the girl came out of the banks and started running towards home again. She ran and ran but the cranes flew again and started beating at the girl. She came to the maple, saying: 
    “Honey maple tree, hide me! The cranes really want to kill me." 
    The tree answered: "Shake off the leaves down from me, and I'll hide you!" 
    The little girl shook the leaves from the maple, and the maple hid her under its big leaves. The cranes were flying, flying over the maple, but the girl and the child were nowhere to be seen, and so they flew away. When they had flown away, the girl came out from amongst the leaves and fled home. She ran and ran but the cranes flew again and started beating at the girl. She came up to the apple tree. 
    “Honey apple tree, hide me! The cranes will really kill me." 
    "If you shake off my apples, I'll hide you!" 
    The girl shook the apples from the tree, and the tree hid the girl inside the apples. The cranes were flying and flying over the apple tree, but the girl was nowhere to be seen. And so the cranes flew away again. When they had flown away, the girl and her brother came out of the apples and set off towards home.
    But the cranes flew again and started beating the girl. She got home with great difficulty from the cranes and put her brother into the room through the window, but she herself escaped into the room through the door. The cranes were flying, flying around the house, and went on their way. Just then, the mother and father came home and the daughter told them all about her troubles. The mother was pleased with her daughter and gave her a head-sized golden egg as a gift for saving her son from the cranes.