Stranica 175 [175]
LITTLE RED-CAP. 135
the cakes, and drank the wine, and held up her head again,
and Little Red-cap said to herself that she would never more
stray about in the wood alone, but would mind what her
mother told her.
It must also be related how a few days afterwards, when
Little Red-cap was again taking cakes to her grandmother,
another wolf spoke to her, and wanted to tempt her to leave
the path; but she was on her guard, and went straight on her
way, and told her grandmother how that the wolf had met her,
and wished her good-day, but had looked so wicked about the
eyes that she thought if it had not been on the high road he
would have devoured her.
“Come,” said the grandmother, “ we will shut the door, so
that he may not get in.”
Soon after came the wolf knocking at the door, and calling
out, "Open the door, grandmother, I am Little Red-cap, bringing
you cakes.” But they remained still, and did not open the
door. After that the wolf slunk by the house, and got at last
upon the roof to wait until Little Red-cap should return home
in the evening; then he meant to spring down upon her, and
devour her in the darkness. But the grandmother discovered
his plot. Now there stood before the house a great stone
trough, and the grandmother said to the child, “ Little Red¬
cap, I was boiling sausages yesterday, so take the bucket, and
carry away the water they were boiled in, and pour it into the
trough.”
And Little Red-cap did so until the great trough was quite
full. When the smell of the sausages reached the nose of the
wolf he snuffed it up, and looked round, and stretched out his
neck so far that he lost his balance and began to slip, and he
slipped down off the roof straight into the great trough, and
was drowned. ‘Then Little Red-cap went cheerfully home,
and came to no harm.