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cake, and this little pot of butter."
Little Red Riding Hood set out immediately to go
to her grandmother, who lived in another village.
As she was going through the wood, she met with a
wolf, who had a very great mind to eat her up, but he
dared not, because of some woodcutters working
nearby in the forest. He asked her where she was
going. The poor child, who did not know that it was
dangerous to stay and talk to a wolf, said to him, "I
am going to see my grandmother and carry her a
cake and a little pot of butter from my mother."
"Does she live far off?" said the wolf
"Oh I say," answered Little Red Riding Hood; "it is
beyond that mill you see there, at the first house in
the village."
"Well," said the wolf, "and I'll go and see her too.
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