loudly.
A huntsman was just passing by. He thought it strange that the old woman was snoring so loudly, so he decided to take a look. He stepped inside, and in the bed there lay the wolf that he had been hunting for such a long time. "He has eaten the grandmother, but perhaps she still can be saved. I wont shoot him," thought the huntsman. So he took a pair of scissors and cut open his belly.
He had cut only a few strokes when he saw the red cap shining through. He cut a little more, and the girl jumped out and cried, "Oh, I was so frightened! It was so dark inside the wolfs body!"
And then the grandmother came out alive as well. Then Little Red Cap fetched some large heavy stones. They filled the wolfs body with them, and when he woke up and tried to run away, the stones were so heavy that he fell down dead.
The three of them were happy. The huntsman took the wolfs pelt. The grandmother ate the cake and drank the wine that Little Red Cap had brought. And Little Red Cap thought to herself, "As long as I live, I will never leave the path and run off into the woods by myself if mother tells me not to. "
They also tell how Little Red Cap was taking some baked things to her grandmother another time, when another wolf spoke to her and wanted her to leave the path. But Little Red Cap took care and went straight to grandmothers. She told her that she had seen the wolf, and that he had wished her a good day, but had stared at her in a wicked manner. "If we hadnt been on a public road, he would have eaten me up," she said.
"Come," said the grandmother. "Lets lock the door, so he cant get in. "
Soon afterward the wolf knocked on the door and called out, "Open up, grandmother
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