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Once upon a time there lived on the borders of a great forest a woodman and his wife who had one footling daughter, a sweet, kind child, whom every one loved. She was the joy of her mother's center, and to please her, the skillful adult female made her a piddling scarlet cloak and hood, and the child looked so pretty in it that everybody called her Little Red Riding-Hood.

Vintage storybook illustration of mother and daughter for Little Red Riding Hood
Ane day her mother told her she meant to send her to her grandmother—a very old woman who lived in the heart of the wood—to have her some fresh butter and new-laid eggs and a dainty cake. Little Ruby-red Riding-Hood was very pleased to be sent on this errand, for she liked to do kind things, and it was and then very long since she had seen her grandmother that she had most forgotten what the dame looked similar.

Vintage storybook illustration of Little Red Riding Hood in forest with flowers

The sun was shining brightly, but it was not likewise warm nether the shade of the old trees, and Red Riding-Hood sang with glee as she gathered a great agglomeration of wild flowers to requite to her grandmother. She sang so sweetly that a cushat dove flew down from a tree and followed her.

Now, it happened that a wolf, a very cruel, greedy creature, heard her vocal also, and longed to eat her for his breakfast, but he knew Hugh, the woodman, was at work very nearly, with his corking dog, and he feared they might hear Red Riding-Hood cry out, if he frightened her, and then they would impale him. So he came up to her very gently and said:

"Practiced twenty-four hour period, Little Red Riding-Hood; where are you going?"

"To run into my grandmother," said the kid, "and take her a nowadays from female parent of eggs and butter and cake."

"Where does your grandmamma live?" asked the wolf.

"Quite in the centre of the wood," she replied.

"Oh! I think I know the house. Practiced solar day, Red Riding-Hood." And the wolf ran off as fast as he could

Vintage storybook illustration of Little Red Riding Hood with wolf

Little Red Riding-Hood was non in a bustle, and there were many things to amuse her in the wood. She ran later on the white and yellow collywobbles that danced earlier her, and sometimes she defenseless one, merely she always let it go once again, for she never liked to hurt any fauna.

Vintage storybook illustration of Little Red Riding Hood walking in forest with basket
So there were the merry, cunning little squirrels to watch, cracking nuts on the branches of the old trees, and every at present so a rabbit would hurry away through the tall ferns, or a great bee come buzzing virtually her, and she would end to sentinel it gathering beloved from the flowers, and wild thyme. So she went on very slowly.

By-and-past she saw Hugh, the woodman.

"Where are you going, Picayune Ruby-red Riding-Hood," said he, "all lonely?"

"I am going to my grandmamma's," said the child. "Good solar day; I must brand haste now, for it grows late."

While Little Red Riding-Hood was at play in the forest, the peachy wolf galloped on equally fast as he could to the old woman'due south house. Grandmother lived all by herself, but once or twice a-mean solar day a neighbour's child came to tidy her house and get her food.

At present, grandmother was very feeble, and oftentimes kept her bed; and it happened that she was in bed the day Little Blood-red Riding-Hood went to run into her. When the wolf reached the cottage door he tapped.

"Who is at that place?" asked the one-time dame.

Vintage storybook illustration of Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother with wolf

"Piddling Red Riding-Hood, granny," said the wolf, trying to speak like the kid.

"Come in, my dearest," said the one-time lady, who was a little deaf. "Pull the string and the latch will come up up."

The wolf did as she told him, went in, and y'all may remember how frightened poor grandmother was when she saw him standing by her bed instead of Petty Red Riding-Hood.

Very soon the wolf, who was quite hungry subsequently his run, ate up poor grandmother.

Indeed, she was not enough for his breakfast, and so he idea he would similar to eat sweet Cherry Riding-Hood also. Therefore he dressed himself in granny's nightcap and got into bed, and waited for the child to knock at the door. But he waited a long time.

By and past Petty Reddish Riding-Hood reached her grandmother's business firm, and tapped at the door.

Vintage storybook illustration of Little Red Riding Hood knocking at grandmother's door

"Come up in," said the wolf, in a squeaking voice. "Pull the cord, and the latch will come upwardly."

Scarlet Riding-Hood idea grandmother must have a cold, she spoke then hoarsely; only she went in at once, and in that location lay her granny, as she idea, in bed.

"If y'all please, grandmamma, mother sends y'all some butter and eggs," she said.

"Come here, dear," said the wicked wolf, "and allow me buss you," and Scarlet Riding-Hood obeyed.

Vintage storybook illustration of Little Red Riding Hood and wolf in grandmother clothing

Simply when Red Riding-Hood saw the wolf she felt frightened. She had well-nigh forgotten grandmother, but she did non think she had been then ugly.

"Grandmamma," she said, "what a corking nose y'all have."

"All the meliorate to olfactory property with, my dear," said the wolf.

"And, grandmamma, what large ears you have."

"All the amend to hear with, my love."

"Ah! grandmamma, and what large eyes y'all accept."

"All the meliorate to see with, my dearest," said the wolf, showing his teeth, for he longed to eat the child upward.

"Oh, grandmamma, and what great teeth y'all accept!" said Reddish Riding-Hood.

"All the better to eat you up with," growled the wolf, and, jumping out of bed, he rushed at Reddish Riding-Hood and would have eaten her up, merely just at that minute the door flew open and a great dog tore him downward. The wolf and the domestic dog were still fighting when Hugh, the woodman, came in and killed the wicked wolf with his axe.

Vintage storybook illustration of Little Red Riding Hood saved by woodcutter

Lilliputian Red Riding-Hood threw her arms round the woodman Hugh's neck and kissed him, and thanked him again and once again.

"Oh, you adept, kind Hugh," she said, "how did you know the wolf was here, in fourth dimension to salvage me?"

"Well," said Hugh, "when you were gone by, I remembered that a wolf had been seen about the forest lately, and I idea I would merely come afterward yous and see if you were safe. When we came nearly grandmother'southward house my dog Trim sniffed and ran to the door and whined, and so he pushed it open up—you had non close information technology shut—and rushed in, and I followed him, and betwixt united states of america we have killed the wolf."

Then Hugh took the child home, and her female parent and begetter could not give thanks him enough for saving Piddling Ruby-red Riding-Hood.

Short story by a vintage writer, originally by Charles Perrault

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Permit's Chat Well-nigh The Stories ~ Ideas for Talking With Kids

Stranger Danger

1. Petty Red Riding-Hood told the Wolf where she was going and what she was doing when she met him on the path. Do you think this was a expert idea? Why or why not?

ii. If Little Cherry-red Riding-Hood did not want to tell the Wolf where she was going and what she was doing, what are some adept things she might have said to him instead?

3. Can you recall of some other questions that strangers might sometimes ask, that could be unsafe for children?

four. When might it exist okay to tell a stranger your name, your address or where you are going?

5. Does a stranger always await hairy, with big arms, and large teeth, and big eyes, like the Wolf?

6. As well, if a person is hairy, with large arms, and big teeth, and big eyes, should you be scared of them?

vii. How practice you lot call up you lot might be able to tell if a person is a nice stranger or a not-nice stranger?

Kindness

viii. Little Cerise Riding-Hood and her mother wanted to take a block to Little Red Riding-Hood's grandmother because she'd been sick. Accept yous ever looked after someone when they were ill? What did you practice to assist brand them experience better?

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