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Once upon a time there was a sweet little girl whom everyone who saw her loved, but her grandmother loved her most of all and could never think what to give the child next. Once she gave her a little cap of red velvet, and because it suited her so well and she would wear nothing else, she came to be known as Little Red Riding Hood. One day her mother said to her, "Come, Little Red Riding Hood, here is a piece of cake and a bottle of wine. Take them to your grandmother; she is ill and weak, and they will do her good. Set off before it gets hot, and when you are out, walk nicely and do not stray from the path, or you may fall and break the bottle, and then your grandmother will have nothing. And when you enter her room, do not forget to say good morning, and do not go peering into every corner first!"
"I will do everything just as you say," Little Red Riding Hood told her mother, and gave her her hand on it. Her grandmother lived out in the woods, half an hour's walk from the village. Now, when Little Red Riding Hood entered the woods, she met the wolf. But Little Red Riding Hood did not know what a wicked creature he was, and she was not afraid of him. "Good day, Little Red Riding Hood!" he said. "Thank you kindly, Wolf!" — "Where are you going so early, Little Red Riding Hood?" — "To my grandmother's." — "What are you carrying under your apron?" — "Cake and wine. We baked yesterday, and my poor, sick grandmother is to have something nice to help her regain her strength." — "Little Red Riding Hood, where does your grandmother live?" — "A good quarter of an hour farther into the woods. Her house stands under the three great oak trees, with the hazel hedges below it. Surely you know the place," said Little Red Riding Hood. The wolf thought to himself: This tender young thing will make a tasty morsel; she will taste even better than the old woman. You must go about it cunningly, so you can catch them both. He walked beside Little Red Riding Hood for a little while, then said, "Little Red Riding Hood, just look at all the lovely flowers around you. Why don't you look about? I don't believe you even hear how sweetly the little birds are singing. You walk straight ahead as though you were going to school, when it is so merry out here in the woods."
Little Red Riding Hood raised her eyes, and when she saw the sunbeams dancing here and there through the trees, and lovely flowers growing everywhere, she thought: If I bring Grandmother a fresh bunch of flowers, that will please her too. It is so early in the day that I shall still arrive in good time. So she left the path and ran into the woods to pick flowers. Whenever she had picked one, she thought she saw a prettier one farther on, and ran after it, wandering deeper and deeper into the woods. But the wolf went straight to the grandmother's house and knocked at the door. "Who is there?" — "Little Red Riding Hood, bringing cake and wine. Open the door!" — "Just press the latch!" called the grandmother. "I am too weak to get up." The wolf pressed the latch, the door sprang open, and without saying a word he went straight to the grandmother's bed and swallowed her whole. Then he put on her clothes, tied on her cap, lay down in her bed, and drew the curtains.
Meanwhile, Little Red Riding Hood had been running about gathering flowers, and when she had picked so many that she could carry no more, she remembered her grandmother and set off for her house. She was surprised to find the door standing open, and when she entered the room, everything seemed so strange that she thought: Oh dear, how uneasy I feel today, when usually I love being with Grandmother! She called out, "Good morning," but received no answer. Then she went to the bed and drew back the curtains. There lay her grandmother, with her cap pulled low over her face, looking very strange indeed. "Oh, Grandmother, what big ears you have!" — "All the better to hear you with!" — "Oh, Grandmother, what big eyes you have!" — "All the better to see you with!" — "Oh, Grandmother, what big hands you have!" — "All the better to seize you with!" — "But, Grandmother, what a terribly big mouth you have!" — "All the better to eat you with!" Scarcely had the wolf said this when he sprang out of bed and swallowed poor Little Red Riding Hood.
When the wolf had satisfied his appetite, he lay down in bed again, fell asleep, and began to snore very loudly. Just then the huntsman was passing the house and thought: How the old woman snores! I had better see whether something is wrong with her. He went into the room, and when he came to the bed, he saw the wolf lying in it. "So here I find you, you old scoundrel," he said. "I have been looking for you for a long time." He was about to raise his gun when it occurred to him that the wolf might have eaten the grandmother, and she might still be saved. So instead of shooting, he took a pair of scissors and began to cut open the sleeping wolf's belly. After a few snips he saw the little red cap shining through, and after a few more the girl sprang out and cried, "Oh, how frightened I was! It was so dark inside the wolf!" Then the old grandmother came out alive as well, scarcely able to breathe. Little Red Riding Hood quickly fetched some large stones, and they filled the wolf's belly with them. When he awoke, he tried to leap away, but the stones were so heavy that he fell down at once and died.
Then all three were happy. The huntsman skinned the wolf and went home with the pelt; the grandmother ate the cake and drank the wine that Little Red Riding Hood had brought, and recovered her strength. But Little Red Riding Hood thought: Never again in all your life will you stray from the path into the woods on your own when your mother has forbidden it.
It is also told that once, when Little Red Riding Hood was again taking some baked treats to her old grandmother, another wolf spoke to her and tried to lure her off the path. But Little Red Riding Hood was on her guard and went straight on her way. She told her grandmother that she had met the wolf, who had wished her good day but had looked at her with such wicked eyes: "If we had not been on the open road, he would have eaten me." — "Come," said the grandmother, "let us lock the door so he cannot get in." Soon afterward the wolf knocked and called, "Open the door, Grandmother. It is Little Red Riding Hood. I have brought you some baked treats." But they kept quiet and did not open the door. Then the grey-headed wolf prowled around the house several times and at last leapt onto the roof. He meant to wait until Little Red Riding Hood went home that evening, then creep after her and eat her in the dark. But the grandmother guessed what he had in mind. Now, in front of the house stood a large stone trough, and she said to the child, "Take the bucket, Little Red Riding Hood. Yesterday I cooked some sausages; carry the water they were cooked in out to the trough!" Little Red Riding Hood kept carrying water until the great big trough was full to the brim. Then the smell of the sausages rose to the wolf's nose. He sniffed and peered down, and at last stretched his neck so far that he could no longer keep his balance and began to slip. He slid off the roof, straight into the great trough, and drowned. Little Red Riding Hood went merrily home, and from that day on no one ever harmed her again.