this means he made his voice smooth; and then he came back to
the cottage, and knocked, and again asked to be let in. The
little Kids, however, saw his black paws, and they said, "No,
your feet are black; you are a wolf." Then the Wolf went to a
baker, and got him to powder his feet with flour; and when the
little Kids saw his white feet, they thought it was their
mother, and let him in. Then the little Kids were very much
frightened, and ran and hid themselves. The first got under the
table, the second into the bed, the third into the cupboard, the
fourth into the kitchen, the fifth into the oven, the sixth into
the wash-tub, and the seventh into the clock-case. The wicked
Wolf, however, found all of them out, and ate them up, excepting
the one in the clock-case, where he did not think of looking.
And when the greedy monster had finished his meal, he went into
the meadow, and lay down and slept. Just at this time the old
Goat came home, and began crying for her children; but the only
one who answered was the youngest, who said, "Here I am, dear
mother, in the clock-case;" and then he came out and told her
all about it. Presently the Goat went out into the meadow, and
there lay the Wolf, snoring quite loud; and she thought she saw
something stirring in his body. So she ran back, and fetched a
pair of scissors and a needle and thread, and then she cut open
the monster's hairy coat, and out jumped first one little kid,
and then another, until all the six stood round her, for the
greedy Wolf was in such a hurry that he had swallowed them whole.
Then the Goat and the little Kids brought a number of stones,
and put them into the Wolf's stomach, and sewed up the place
again. When the Wolf woke up, he felt very thirsty, and ran off
to the brook to drink, and the heavy stones overbalanced him,
so that he fell into the brook, and was drowned. And then the