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Little Red Riding Hood. Once upon a time there wasa dear little girl who was loved by everyone wholooked at her,
but most of all by her grandmother, and there wasnothing that she would not have given to the
child. Once she gave her a little cap of redvelvet, which suited her so well that she would
never wear anything else, so she was always calledLittle Red Cap. One day her mother said to her,
Come, Little Red Cap, here is a piece of cake anda bottle of wine, take them to your grandmother,
she is ill and weak, and they will do her good.Set out before it gets hot, and when you aregoing,
walk nicely and quietly and do not run off thepath, 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 her mother, and gave herhand on it. The grandmother lived out in the wood,
half a league from the village, and just as LittleRed Cap 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 youkindly, 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,
to make her stronger. Where does your grandmotherlive, Little Red Cap? A good quarter of a league
farther on in the wood, her house stands under thethree large oak trees, the nut trees are just
below, you surely must know it, replied Little RedCap. The wolf thought to himself, what a
tender young creature. What a nice plump mouthful,she will be better to eat than the old woman.
I must act craftily, so as to catch both. So hewalked for a short time by the side of Little
Red Cap, and then he said, See, Little Red Cap,how pretty the flowers are about here,
why do you not look round? I believe, too, thatyou do not hear how sweetly the little birds are
singing, you walk gravely along as if you weregoing to school, while everything else out here
in the wood is merry. Little Red Cap raised hereyes, and when she saw the sunbeams dancing here
and there through the trees, and pretty flowersgrowing everywhere, she thought, suppose I take
grandmother a fresh nosegay, that would please hertoo. It is so early in the day that I shall
still get there in good time, and so she ran fromthe path into the wood to look for flowers.
And whenever she had picked one, she fancied thatshe saw a still prettier one farther on,
and ran after it, and so got deeper and deeperinto the wood.
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 aword he went straight to the grandmother's bed,
and devoured her. Then he put on her clothes,dressed himself in her cap laid himself in bed
and drew the curtains. Little Red Cap, however,had been running about picking flowers, and when
she had gathered so many that she could carry nomore, she remembered her grandmother, and
set out on the way to her. She was surprised tofind the cottage door standing open, and when
she went into the room, she had such a strangefeeling that she said to herself, 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
the curtains. There lay her grandmother with hercap pulled far over her face, and looking
very strange. Oh! Grandmother, she said, what bigears you have! The better to hear you with,
my child, was the reply. But, Grandmother, whatbig eyes you have! She said. The better to see
you with, my dear. But, Grandmother, what largehands 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
Red Cap. When the wolf had appeased his appetite,he lay down again in the bed,
fell asleep and began to snore very loud. The huntsman was just passing the house,
and thought 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. Ihave long sought you. Then just as he was going
to fire at him, it occurred to him that the wolfmight have devoured the grandmother,
and that she might still be saved, so he did notfire, 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 Red Cap shining, and then hemade two snips more, and the little girl sprang
out, crying, ah, how frightened I have been! Howdark it was inside the wolf, and after that
the aged grandmother came out alive also, but scarcely able to breathe. Red Cap, however,
quickly fetched great stones with which theyfilled 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 drewoff the wolf's skin and went home with it,
the grandmother ate the cake and drank the winewhich Red Cap had brought, and revived,
but Red Cap thought to herself, as long as I live,I will never by myself leave the path,
to run into the wood, when my mother has forbiddenme to do so.
It also related that once when Red Cap was againtaking cakes to the old grandmother,
another wolf spoke to her, and tried to entice herfrom the path. Red Cap, however, was on her
guard, and went straight forward on her way, andtold her grandmother that she had met the wolf,
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and that he had said good morning to her, but withsuch a wicked look in his eyes,
that if they had not been on the public road shewas certain he would have eaten her up.
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 Red Cap,
and am bringing you some cakes. But they did notspeak, or open the door, so the greybeard stole
twice or thrice round the house, and at lastjumped on the roof, intending to wait until
Red Cap 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,
so she said to the child, Take the pail, Red Cap,I made some sausages yesterday,
so carry the water in which I boiled them to thetrough. Red Cap carried until the great
trough was quite full. Then the smell of thesausages reached the wolf, and he sniffed and
peeped down, and at last stretched out his neck sofar that he could no longer keep his footing and
began to slip, and slipped down from the roofstraight into the great trough, and was drowned.
But Red Cap went joyously home, and no one everdid anything to harm her again.
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