Caperucita Roja

Little Red Riding Hood
Once upon a time there was a dear little girl who was loved by every one who looked at her, but most of all by her grandmother, and there was nothing that she would not havegiven to the child. Once she gave her a little cap of red velvet, which suited her so well that she would never wear anything else. So she was always called Little Red Riding Hood.
One day hermother said to her, "Come, Little Red Riding Hood, here is a piece of cake and a bottle of wine. Take them to your grandmother, she is ill and weak, this will make feel good.
The grandmother lived outin the wood, just when Little Red Riding Hood entered the wood, a wolf met her. Little Red Riding Hood did not know what a wicked creature he was, and was not at all afraid of him.
"Good-day,Little Red Riding Hood," said he.
"Thank you kindly, wolf."
"Where do you go so early.
"To my grandmother's house."
"What have you got in your apron?"
"Cake and wine. Yesterday was baking-day, I havebeen this to make her stronger."
"Where does your grandmother live, Little Red Riding Hood?"
Her house stands under the three large oak-trees. You surely must know it," replied Little Red RidingHood.
The wolf thought to himself, "What a tender young creature. She will be better to eat than the old woman. I must act carefully." So he walked for a short time by the side of Little Red RidingHood, and then he said, "See Little Red Riding Hood, how pretty the flowers are about here — why do you not look around? I believe, too, that you do not hear how sweetly the little birds are singing;you walk gravely along as if you were going to school, while everything else out here in the wood is very merry.”
Little Red Riding Hood raised her eyes, and when she saw the sunbeams dancing hereand there through the trees, and pretty flowers growing everywhere, she thought, 'Suppose I take grandmother a rose. That would please her too. It is so early in the day that I shall still get there...