鈥淟ittle Red-Riding-Hood.鈥 The Book of Fables and Folk Stories, Horace Elisha Scudder, Boston: Houghton Mifflin; 1919, pp. 1-4.
Tale Summary
There was once a little girl who was well-loved by her mother, and even more by her grandmother, who made her a red cloak that suited the child so well that everyone called her 鈥淟ittle Red-Riding-Hood鈥. One day, Red-Riding-Hood鈥檚 mother gave her a cake and some butter to take to her grandmother because she had been ill. On her way through the woods she met a wolf who asked her where she was going, because he dared not eat her there where there were woodcutters nearby. The wolf said he would try to go one way and she the other to see who was fastest, and soon reached the grandmother鈥檚 house. He called to the old woman, pretending to be Red-Riding-Hood, and she told him to pull the string to lift the latch and come in. He ate her quickly and then put on her clothes and hid in bed for Red-Riding-Hood, who, when she arrived, told to pull the string to come in. The girl thought she must have a bad cold, and when she got closer, went back and forth with the wolf:
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鈥淕randmother, what great arms you have!鈥
鈥淭he better to hug you, my dear.鈥
鈥淕randmother, what big ears you have!鈥
鈥淭he better to hear you, my dear.鈥
鈥淕randmother, what great eyes you have!鈥
鈥淭he better to see you, my dear.鈥
Grandmother, what great teeth you have!鈥
鈥淭he better to eat you.鈥
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And the wolf ate her all up.
Fairy Tale Title
Little Red-Riding-Hood
Fairy Tale Author(s)/Editor(s)
Horace Elisha Scudder
Fairy Tale Illustrator(s)听
None Listed
Common Tale Type听
Little Red Riding Hood
Tale Classification
ATU 333
Page Range of Tale听
pp. 1-4
Full Citation of Tale听
鈥淟ittle Red-Riding-Hood.鈥 The Book of Fables and Folk Stories, Horace Elisha Scudder, Boston: Houghton Mifflin; 1919, pp. 1-4.
Original Source of the Tale
Charles Perrault
Tale Notes
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Research and Curation
Kaeli Waggener, 2023
Book Title听
The Book of Fables and Folk Stories
Book Author/Editor(s)听
Horace Elisha Scudder
Illustrator(s)
None listed
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Date Published
1919
Decade Published听
1910-1919
Publisher City
Boston
Publisher Country
United States
Language
English
Rights
Public Domain
Digital Copy
Book Notes
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