The Little Girl and the Wolf
by James Thurber
One afternoon a big wolf waited in a dark forest fo
r a little girl to come along carrying a basket of
food to her grandmother. Finally
a little girl did come along and
she was carrying a basket of food.
«Are you carrying that basket to
your grandmother?» asked the wolf. The little girl said yes, she
was. So the wolf asked her where her grandmother
her lived and the little girl told him and he
disappeared into the wood.
When the little girl opened the
door of her grandmother’s house she
saw that there was somebody in
bed with a nightcap and nightgown on.
She had approached no nearer than twenty-five feet from the
bed when she saw that it was not
her grandmother but the wolf, for
even in a nightcap a wolf does
not look any more like your grandmother than th
e Metro-Goldwyn lion looks like Calvin Coolidge.
So the little girl took an automatic out
of her basket and shot the wolf dead.
(Moral: It is not so easy to fool little
girls nowadays as it used to be.
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