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Little Red Riding Hood
Once upon a time there was a dear little girl whowas loved by everyone who looked at her, but mostof all by her grandmother, and there was nothingthat she would not have given to the child.
Once she gave her a little cap of red velvet,which suited her so well that she would never wearanything else, so she was always called Little RedCap.
One day her mother said to her, Come, Little RedCap, here is a piece of cake and a bottle of wine,take them to your grandmother, she is ill andweak, and they will do her good.
Set out before it gets hot, and when you aregoing, walk nicely and quietly and do not run offthe path, or you may fall and break the bottle,and then your grandmother will get nothing, andwhen you go into her room, don't forget to say,Good morning, and don't peep into every cornerbefore you do it.
I will take great care, said Little Red Cap to hermother, and gave her hand on it.
The grandmother lived out in the wood, half aleague from the village, and just as Little RedCap entered the wood, a wolf met her.
Red Cap did not know what a wicked creature hewas, and was not at all afraid of him.
Good day, Little Red Cap, said he.
Thank you kindly, wolf.
Wither away so early, Little Red Cap.
To my grandmothers.
What have you got in your apron?
Cake and wine, yesterday was baking day, so poorsick grandmother is to have something good, tomake her stronger.
Where does your grandmother live, Little Red Cap?
A good quarter of a league farther on in the wood,her house stands under the three large oak trees,the nut trees are just below, you surely must knowit, replied Little Red Cap.
The wolf thought to himself, what a tender youngcreature.
What a nice plump mouthful, she will be better toeat than the old woman.
I must act craftily, so as to catch both.
So he walked for a short time by the side ofLittle Red Cap, and then he said, see, Little RedCap, how pretty the flowers are about here, why doyou not look round?
I believe, too, that you do not hear how sweetlythe little birds are singing, you walk gravelyalong as if you were going to school, whileeverything else out here in the wood is merry.
Little Red Cap raised her eyes, and when she sawthe sunbeams dancing here and there through thetrees, and pretty flowers growing everywhere, shethought, suppose I take grandmother a fresh nosegay, that would please her too.
It is so early in the day that I shall still getthere in good time, and so she ran from the pathinto the wood to look for flowers.
And whenever she had picked one, she fancied thatshe saw a still prettier one farther on, and ranafter it, and so got deeper and deeper into thewood.
Meanwhile the wolf ran straight to the grandmother's house and knocked at the door.
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Who is there?
Little Red Cap, replied the wolf.
She is bringing cake and wine, open the door.
Lift the latch, called out the grandmother, I amtoo weak, and cannot get up.
The wolf lifted the latch, the door sprang open,and without saying a word he went straight to thegrandmother's bed, and devoured her.
Then he put on her clothes, dressed himself in hercap laid himself in bed and drew the curtains.
Little Red Cap, however, had been running aboutpicking flowers, and when she had gathered so manythat she could carry no more, she remembered hergrandmother, and set out on the way to her.
She was surprised to find the cottage doorstanding open, and when she went into the room,she had such a strange feeling that she said toherself, oh dear.
How uneasy I feel today, and at other times I likebeing with grandmother so much.
She called out, good morning, but received noanswer, so she went to the bed and drew back thecurtains.
There lay her grandmother with her cap pulled farover her face, and looking very strange.
Oh! grandmother, she said, what big ears you have.
The better to hear you with, my child, was thereply.
But, grandmother, what big eyes you have.
She said.
The better to see you with, my dear.
But, grandmother, what large hands you have.
The better to hug you with.
Oh! but, grandmother, what a terrible big mouthyou have.
The better to eat you with.
And scarcely had the wolf said this, then with onebound he was out of bed and swallowed up redcap.
When the wolf had appeased his appetite, he laydown again in the bed, fell asleep and began to snore very loud.
The huntsman was just passing the house, andthought to himself, how the old woman is snoring.
I must just see if she wants anything.
So he went into the room, and when he came to thebed, he saw that the wolf was lying in it.
Do I find you here, you old sinner? said he.
I have long sought you.
Then just as he was going to fire at him, itoccurred to him that the wolf might have devouredthe grandmother, and that she might still besaved.
So he did not fire, but took a pair of scissors,and began to cut open the stomach of the sleepingwolf.
When he had made two snips, he saw the little redcap shining, and then he made two snips more, andthe little girl sprang out, crying, ah, howfrightened I have been.
How dark it was inside the wolf, and after thatthe aged grandmother came out alive also, but scarcely able to breathe.
Redcap, however, quickly fetched great stones withwhich they filled the wolf's belly, and when he awoke, he wanted to run away, but the stones were soheavy that he collapsed at once, and fell dead.
Then all three were delighted.
The huntsman drew off the wolf's skin and wenthome with it.
The grandmother ate the cake and drank the winewhich redcap had brought, and revived, but redcapthought to herself, as long as I live, I willnever by myself leave the path, to run into thewood, when my mother has forbidden me to do so.
It also related that once when redcap was againtaking cakes to the old grandmother, another wolfspoke to her, and tried to entice her from thepath.
Redcap, however, was on her guard, and wentstraight forward on her way, and told hergrandmother that she had met the wolf, and that hehad said good morning to her, but with such awicked look in his eyes, that if they had not beenon the public road she was certain he would haveeaten her up.
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Well, said the grandmother, we will shut the door,that he may not come in.
Soon afterwards the wolf knocked, and cried, openthe door, grandmother, I am little redcap, and ambringing you some cakes.
But they did not speak, or open the door, so thegreybeard stole twice or thrice round the house,and at last jumped on the roof, intending to waituntil redcap went home in the evening, and then tosteal after her and devour her in the darkness.
But the grandmother saw what was in his thoughts.
In front of the house was a great stone trough, soshe said to the child, take the pail, redcap, Imade some sausages yesterday, so carry the waterin which I boiled them to the trough.
Redcap carried until the great trough was quitefull.
Then the smell of the sausages reached the wolf,and he sniffed and peeped down, and at laststretched out his neck so far that he could nolonger keep his footing and began to slip, andslip down from the roof straight into the great trough, and was drowned.
But redcap went joyously home, and no one ever didanything to harm her again.
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