One
afternoon a big wolf waited in a dark forest for 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 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 the 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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