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Just then he saw an old witch standing near him.
"What's your trouble, young man?" she asked Manuel.
"Old woman," he said, "I wonder how I will find my rabbits again if I let them run free."
The witch gave him a whistle and told him, "Whenever you want your rabbits, blow on the whistle. And wherever they are, they will come to you."
Then she was gone as quickly as she had come.
—“Manuel Had a Riddle,”
Virginia Hamilton
What do these passages show about the witch?
She is really a beautiful princess in disguise.
She is helpful and cares about what happens to other creatures.
She is helping the king trick Manuel.
She lives near the king’s palace and knows him well.