The Forest House
Once upon a time there was a poor lumberjack living with his family at the reachs of a big deep forest. One day he said to his wife: "I have to go deep into the woods today to chop some big trees, make sure, our eldest daughter brings me my lunch, because I won't be home before the night comes. I will scatter millet on my way so that she finds me." Said and done, he went off and later that day his eldest daughter followed with a meal. But she couldn't find him, 'cause the birds had found and picked all the millet. So she went deeper and deeper into the forest and was completely lost, until she saw a light shining through the trees. She hoped it to be a house where people lived and she probably could stay for the night and went over, finding herself in front of an old wooden house, that already looked pretty run-down. She knocked at the door and was invited in. Inside she found an old looking man with a really long grey beard, sitting at a table, and some animals sitting and lying near the fireplace, a chicken, a rooster and a colorful checkered cow.
The girl told her story and asked, if she could stay the night and maybe have something to eat. The man looked up and asked the animals:
"Beautiful chicken, beautiful rooster, and you, beautiful colorful cow, what do you say about that?" (it rhymes in German) And the animals only replied: "Dooks".*
So the old man asked the girl to cook dinner for them. She went over to the fireplace and fixed a soup, put it on the table and they both started eating. After that, she asked where she could go to rest for the night and the old man asked his animals again:
"Beautiful chicken, beautiful rooster, and you, beautiful colorful cow, what do you say about that?"
And this time the animals replied: 'You ate with him. You drank with him. You didn’t think of us at all, now see where you end up at night!'
The girl was a bit confused about that, but the old man showed her up the stairs to a small room with two beds. He asked her to make the beds for the night and went back downstairs. The girl did as she was told and then went to bed without waiting for the old man. He came back a little later, shook his head as he watched her, and with a wave of his hand, a trapdoor opened, and the bed along with the sleeping girl disappeared into the cellar.
The Lumberjack had went home after dark very hungry and was really upset, that he hadn't got anything to eat that day. He told his wife, that he didn't get all his things done due to the lack of a proper lunch, and that she should send the middle daughter with his meal the next day. He would scatter lentils along the way for her to find him. Said and done, but by the time the girl set off with her father's lunch, the birds already had picked all the lentils, so this girl also got totally lost. After dark she saw a light through the trees and found the wooden house. The girl knocked at the door, the old man invited her in, she saw the animals around the fireplace and begged him for a bed and something to eat. And the old man asked his animals.
"Beautiful chicken, beautiful rooster, and you, beautiful colorful cow, what do you say about that?" And the animals only replied: "Dooks".*
So the man asked her to cook dinner for them, she did so, and they both started eating. Later she asked where she could sleep tonight and the old man asked his animals again:
"Beautiful chicken, beautiful rooster, and you, beautiful colorful cow, what do you say about that?"
And the animals replied: 'You ate with him. You drank with him. You didn’t think of us at all, now see where you end up at night!'
So the old man showed her up the stairs to the small room with two beds, asked her to make the them up for the night and went back downstairs. The girl did as she was told and laid herself to sleep, not waiting for the old man. He came back a little later, shook his head again, as he watched her, and with a wave of his hand, a trapdoor opened, and the bed along with the sleeping girl also disappeared into the cellar.
The Lumberjack came home this night and was pretty angry for having another day without a proper lunch. He told his wife, that the next day the youngest daughter should bring his meal. Being very obedient, she wouldn't probably messing around like her sisters, he said. And that he would scatter peas along the way this time, so she surely would find him. His wife didn't agreed to that, became very sad and afraid of losing her last child, too. But said and done, and by the time the girl set off with the meal, the birds again had picked all the peas, so the girl had to face the same faith as her sisters.
As night fell, she had completely gotten lost, too, and felt relieved when she saw a light among the trees. She also found the house, knocked, and was invited inside. The old man was sitting at the table again with his animals near the fireplace. She asked for food and a place to sleep, and the old man questioned his animals again:
"Beautiful chicken, beautiful rooster, and you, beautiful colorful cow, what do you say about that?" And the animals only replied: "Dooks".*
So the old man also asked her to prepare a meal for the two of them, and she cooked. But before she sat down to eat, she looked at the animals and said to the old man, "How can I eat if the animals aren't taken care of?" Then she went outside, got hay and grain, filled a bucket with fresh water, fed the animals, and petted them. Then she sat down at the table and ate what the old man had left for her. Afterwards she asked, where she could rest for the night and the old man asked his animals again:
"Beautiful chicken, beautiful rooster, and you, beautiful colorful cow, what do you say about that?" And the animals replied:
"You ate with us, you drank with us, you thought of us all carefully, we wish you a good night."
So the old man showed her up to the room with the two beds. He also asked her to make up the beds for the night, which she did. The old man came back and layed down in one bed, she took the other, said her prayers and felt asleep.
But during the night, it got so noisy in the house that the girl woke up. It started rustling and rattling in the corners, the door flew open and slammed against the wall; the beams roared as if they were being torn from their places, and it sounded like the stairs were falling down, and finally there was a crash as if the whole roof was collapsing. But then it went quiet again and nothing happened to the girl, she stayed lying there calmly and felt asleep again. When she woke up in the morning in bright sunlight, she was in a large hall, and everything around her shone in royal splendor: golden flowers grew on the walls against a green silk background, the bed was made of ivory and the canopy above it of red velvet.
The girl thought it was a dream, but then three richly dressed servants entered and asked what orders she had. "Go ahead," the girl replied, "I’ll get up soon and cook some soup for the old man and then also beautiful chicken, beautiful rooster, and feed the beautiful colorful cow." She thought the old man was already up and looked around his bed, but he wasn’t there—there was a stranger instead. And when she looked at him and saw that he was young and handsome, he woke up, and said: "I am a king’s son and was cursed by an evil witch to live as an old, gray man in the forest; no one was allowed near me except my three servants in the form of a chicken, a little rooster, and a colorful cow. And the curse could not end until a girl came to us who was so good at heart that she was kind not only to humans but also to animals. And that was you, and tonight we were redeemed through you, and the old forest house has been transformed back into my royal palace." And when they got up, the prince told the three servants to go fetch the girl's father and mother for the wedding. "But where are my two sisters?" asked the girl. "I locked them in the cellar, and tomorrow they will be taken into the forest to serve the charcoal burner as maids until they improve and no longer let even the poor animals starve."
And then they all lived happily ever after.
Sorry, got interrupted while posting this... Hope the fire's not burnt down already
*Dooks is no real word, I just tried a probably phonetic spelling of what the animals say in german...
) And since I'm one of the dinosaurs here, gather around the campfire and listen to old Synapside, but please, don't make too much noise while chewing your marshmellows 
I hope you enjoyed it. 
The moral of the story is always read the “Terms and Conditions”.
So feel free to do so.