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WOLF IN SffEEP'S CLOTHING. 85
& sheep drinking lower down.
Then he rushes oat, savi
the sheep has muddied the water he was about to drink,
and, no matter what the sheep says, he fells
upon him
and kills him. Sometimes he strips off the skin, washes
it clean in the brook, wraps
it around his own gray hide,
and cheats simple folks into believing him to be a sheep.
This is what he has done with Bed Eiding-Hood this
1
time ;
and because he wore a sheep s skin, the silly child
never suspected that he was the same old wolf from
whom she has been rescued so often, and warned against
so many times. Come, spread the carpet, and let us go
and save her once more."
K Can we how can we ! The wolf will eat us too,"
cried Bhoda; but still she spread the carpet, and as
soon as she and the Chimney-Elf were upon it, he
ordered it to Red Riding-Hood's grandmother's cottage,
and it was there.
The door stood open, and, without waiting for the
Chimney-Elf, Rhoda rushed in. The
wolf had already
arrived ;
but the old grandmother, too wise to take a
wolf for a sheep, had jumped out of bed as soon as she
saw him, and, with the shovel in one hand and the tongs
in the other, was defending herself with great courage ;
while the wolfj with his sheep's skin half slipped off,
and
his red eyes and white teeth showing underneath
the
curly white wool, looked more as if he would like to
run away than to fight.
"Yah, yah! Get out, you brute!" screamed the