The wolf thought to himself:
"That tender young thing would be a delicious morsel, and would taste
better than the old one; I must manage somehow to get both of them."
Then he walked beside little Redcap for a little while, and said to her
softly and sweetly:
"Little Redcap, just look at the pretty flowers that are growing all
round you, and I don't think you are listening to the song of the
birds; you are posting along just as if you were going to school, and it
is so delightful out here in the wood."
Little Redcap glanced round her, and when she saw the sunbeams darting
here and there through the trees, and lovely flowers everywhere, she
thought to herself:
"If I were to take a fresh nosegay to my grandmother, she would be very
pleased, and it is so early in the day that I shall reach her in plenty
of time;" and so she ran about in the wood, looking for flowers. And as
she picked one she saw a still prettier one a little farther off, and so
she went farther and farther into the wood. But the wolf went straight
to the grandmother's house and knocked at the door.
"Who is there?" cried the grandmother.
"Little Redcap," he answered, "and I have brought you some cake and some
new milk. Please open the door."
"Lift the latch," cried the poor old grandmother, feebly; "I am too weak
to get up."
So the wolf lifted the latch, and the door flew open, and he fell on the
grandmother and ate her up without saying one word.
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