The Mother and the Wolf

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The Mother and the Wolf
        A FAMISHED WOLF was prowling about in the morning in search of
        food.  As he passed the door of a cottage built in the forest, he
        heard a Mother say to her child, "Be quiet, or I will throw you
        out of the window, and the Wolf shall eat you."  The Wolf sat all
        day waiting at the door.  In the evening he heard the same woman
        fondling her child and saying:  "You are quiet now, and if the
        Wolf should come, we will kill him."  The Wolf, hearing these
        words, went home, gasping with cold and hunger.  When he reached
        his den, Mistress Wolf inquired of him why he returned wearied
        and supperless, so contrary to his wont.  He replied:  "Why,
        forsooth!   use I gave credence to the words of a woman!"