Stories to read or tell from fairy tales and folklore (1911)
Foucher, Laure Claire, Budell, Ada · New York : Moffat, Yard and Company · leaf 178
the midst of a drearyforest, I spied a terrible wolf making afterme, with all the speed of ravenous winterhunger. He soon overtook me. There wasno possibility of escape. Mechanically I laidmyself down flat in the sledge, and let myhorse run for our safety. What I wished, bjUhardly hoped or… … We both arrived in full career— 166 STORIES TO READ OR TELL which ran the faster for his pain and terror.Thus unnoticed and safe myself, I lifted myhead slyly up, and with horror I beheld thatthe wolf had ate his way into the horses body;it was not long before he had fairly forcedhimself into it,…
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