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Rh The old grey wolf lived on happily with King John, who loved him dearly. The wolf nursed the children till they grew up big enough to nurse themselves; he also taught them to read and write. Besides this, he told them any amount of fairy tales, which they enjoyed better than anything else.

But when King John died, the poor wolf died too, out of pure grief. Then papers were found hidden in his rooms, telling his history; and from those very papers our story is taken. O