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Tonight, I will be reading stories from the book,

childhood favorites and fairy stories,

The Young Folks Treasury.

So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story.

Little Red Riding Hood In a great wide forest full of beautiful trees and green glades and thorny thickets,

there lived a long time ago, a woodcutter and his wife, who had only one child, a little girl.

She was so pretty and so good, that the sun seemed to shine more brightly when its light fell upon her rosy little face, and the birds

would seem to sing more sweetly when she was passing by. Her real name was Maisie, but the

neighbours roundabout all called her little red riding hood, because of a scarlet riding hood and cloak

that her kind old grandmother had made for her

and which she nearly always wore. She was a happy, merry little child with a smile and a gentle

word for everybody, and so you may easily believe that everybody loved her, and was glad to catch a

glimpse of her golden curls

and her scarlet cloak as she tripped along singing under the green boughs.

Now this, let me tell you before I forget, was at the time when all the birds and beasts,

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