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19 children always acted according teto [sic] the advice of their best friends, wolves seldom would havohave [sic] a treat.”

“Ah, grandmother, he spoke so kind and civil, my fears ended. I dare say he meant me no more harm than you do at this moment.”

“I dare say not,” answered the exulting animal with a malicious grin.

“Then I hope you are not angry with me for speaking to him,” said thothe [sic] poor girl, “and telling him that I was coming to you with somosome [sic] wine and cake, and a nice pot of new churned butter.”

“I never was better pleased, you may believe me,” said the wolf, “but go to sleep, my little prattler, for I feel tired with talking, and am faint with illness.”

“Do not let me slumber long,” said Celia, “for my mother told me to be home long beforobefore [sic] dusk.”

“Very well,” replied the supposed old woman, “you do not, however, always obey your mother, or you would not have talked to the wolf; but for the reapers in the field hohe [sic] might have eaten you up.”

So thought Red Riding-Hood.—“Then my grandmother is angry, though I understood just now she was novernever [sic] better pleased. It certainly was voryvery [sic] wrong for mome [sic] to loiter and stay on the road; and still worse to talk with thothe [sic] wolf of the wood. I hope my mother will pardon mome [sic] when I tell her, and promise never to offend again by disobedience; no I will be wiser in futurofuture [sic].”

Celia was too good a child to strive to conceal any transaction in which she was concerned from her parents; and this is an examploexample [sic] worthy of imitation. Candidly tell your faults to thosothose [sic] friends who have authority over yonyou [sic], they will the more readily pardon thothe [sic] past, and assist you with advicoadvice [sic] as to the futurofuture [sic].

Celia continued to sleep, till the wolf, feeling a return of appetite, threw asidoaside [sic] thothe [sic] curtains to gazogaze [sic] on his delicious feast, and pressed her so tight in his fore paws as to awaken her.