;
The larger to smell you more!"

"And what GREAT HANDS my grandma
They never looked so before!"
"That's to hold you tight my darling
And to hug you more and more!"

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

"What a GREAT MOUTH my grandma!
As large as your tin cup!"
"That's to open wide my beauty
And then to eat you up!"

Then he opened his great mouth wider
To eat her like a bird
But at that dreadful moment
A hunter's gun was heard

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

The Wolf fell dead and bleeding--
Then grandma hastened in--
For she had seen the peril
The danger that had been!

Red Riding Hood wept sadly
And sorrowed more and more,
That she'd disobeyed her mother--
Which she never did before.

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

And she thought with fear & trembling
Of the death that came so near!
And she said the fright had taught her
To mind her mother dear.

Then listen, all ye children,
And mind your mother's word!
For the great WOLF, men call EVIL
Is prowling round unheard!

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

_Written & Designed by LYDIA L. VERY._
Published by
L. PRANG & Co.
_No. 159 Washington St. Boston, Mass._

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