Then he drew on her
clothes, put on her cap, lay down in her bed and drew the curtains, the
old wretch that he was.
Little Redcap was all this time running about among the flowers, and
when she had gathered as many as she could hold; she remembered her
grandmother, and set off to go to her. She was surprised to find the
door standing wide open, and when she came inside she felt very strange
and thought to herself:
"Oh, dear, how uncomfortable I feel, and I was so glad this morning to
go to my grandmother!"
And when she said "Good morning!" there was no answer. Then she went up
to the bed and drew back the curtains; there lay the grandmother with
her cap pulled over her eyes, so that she looked very odd.
"Oh, grandmother, what large ears you have got!"
"The better to hear you with."
"Oh, grandmother, what great eyes you have got!"
"The better to see you with."
"Oh, grandmother, what large hands you have got!"
"The better to take hold of you with, my dear."
"But, grandmother, what a terrible large mouth you have got!"
"The better to devour you!" And no sooner had the wolf said this than he
made one bound from the bed and swallowed up poor Little Redcap.
Then the wolf, having satisfied his hunger, lay down again in the bed,
went to sleep and began to snore loudly. The huntsman heard him as he
was passing by the house and thought:
"How the old lady snores--I would better see if there is anything the
matter with her.
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