It is also related that once when Little Red Riding Hood was again taking cakes to the old grandmother, another wolf spoke to her, and tried to entice her from the path. The grandmother ate the cake and drank the wine which Little Red Riding Hood had brought, and revived, but Little Red Riding Hood 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 forbidden me to do so. The huntsman drew off the wolf’s skin and went home with it. Little Red Riding Hood, however, quickly fetched great stones with which they filled the wolf’s belly, and when he awoke, he wanted to run away, but the stones were so heavy that he collapsed at once, and fell dead. How dark it was inside the wolf.”Īnd after that the aged grandmother came out alive also, but scarcely able to breathe. When he had made two snips, he saw the Little Red Riding Hood shining, and then he made two snips more, and the little girl sprang out, crying, “ Ah, how frightened I have been. Then just as he was going to fire at him, it occurred to him that the wolf might have devoured the grandmother, and that she might still be saved, so he did not fire, but took a pair of scissors, and began to cut open the stomach of the sleeping wolf. “ Do I find you here, you old sinner,” said he. So he went into the room, and when he came to the bed, he saw that the wolf was lying in it. The huntsman was just passing the house, and thought to himself, how the old woman is snoring. When the wolf had appeased his appetite, he lay down again in the bed, fell asleep and began to snore very loud. “ Oh, but, grandmother, what a terrible big mouth you have.”Īnd scarcely had the wolf said this, than with one bound he was out of bed and swallowed up Little Red Riding Hood. Little Red Riding Hood, however, had been running about picking flowers, and when she had gathered so many that she could carry no more, she remembered her grandmother, and set out on the way to her. Then he put on her clothes, dressed himself in her cap, laid himself in bed and drew the curtains. The wolf lifted the latch, the door sprang open, and without saying a word he went straight to the grandmother’s bed, and devoured her. “ Lift the latch,” called out the grandmother, “ I am too weak, and cannot get up.” “ Little Red Riding Hood,” replied the wolf. Meanwhile the wolf ran straight to the grandmother’s house and knocked at the door. And whenever she had picked one, she fancied that she saw a still prettier one farther on, and ran after it, and so got deeper and deeper into the wood. And so she ran from the path into the wood to look for flowers. It is so early in the day that I shall still get there in good time. Little Red Riding Hood raised her eyes, and when she saw the sunbeams dancing here and there through the trees, and pretty flowers growing everywhere, she thought, suppose I take grandmother a fresh nosegay. You walk gravely along as if you were going to school, while everything else out here in the wood is merry.” I believe, too, that you do not hear how sweetly the little birds are singing. I must act craftily, so as to catch both.” So he walked for a short time by the side of Little Red Riding Hood, and then he said, “ see Little Red Riding Hood, how pretty the flowers are about here. What a nice plump mouthful, she will be better to eat than the old woman. The wolf thought to himself, “ What a tender young creature. You surely must know it,” replied Little Red Riding Hood. Her house stands under the three large oak-trees, the nut-trees are just below. “ A good quarter of a league farther on in the wood. “ Where does your grandmother live, Little Red Riding Hood?” Yesterday was baking-day, so poor sick grandmother is to have something good, to make her stronger.” “ Whither away so early, Little Red Riding Hood?”
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