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bed. By and bye Little Red Riding-Hood, who had lingered gathering flowers as she came along, and so was much later than the Wolf, knocked at the door. "Who's there?" asked the Wolf, mimicking her grandmother's voice.

"It is Little Red Riding-Hood, dear Grandmamma," said the child.

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Pull the string, and the latch will come up," said the Wolf.

So Red Riding-Hood came in, and the Wolf told her to put down her basket, and come and sit on the bed. When Little Red Riding-Hood drew back the curtain and saw the Wolf, she began to be rather frightened, and said,

"Dear Grandmamma, what great eyes you have got!"

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All the better to see with, my dear," said the Wolf, who liked a grim joke.

"And what a large nose you have, Grandmamma!” cried the child.

"All the better to smell with, my dear."

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'And, oh! Grandmamma, what long white teeth you have!"

Alas! she reminded the greedy Wolf of eating!

"All the better to eat you with!" he growled, and, jumping out of bed, sprang at Red RidingHood.

But just at that moment Hugh the woodman, who had seen the sweet child go by, and had followed her, because he knew there was a Wolf prowling about the forest, burst the door open, and killed the wicked animal with his good axe. Little Red Riding-Hood clung round his neck, and thanked him, and cried for joy; and Hugh took her home to her mother; and after that she was never allowed to walk in the greenwood by herself.

It was said at first that the Wolf had eaten the child, but that was not the case; and everybody was glad to hear that the first report was not correct, and that the Wolf had not really killed Little Red Riding-Hood.

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