The Nurse and the Wolf

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The Nurse and the Wolf
        "Be quiet now," said an old Nurse to a child sitting on her
        lap.  "If you make that noise again I will throw you to the Wolf."
          Now it chanced that a Wolf was passing close under the window
        as this was said.  So he crouched down by the side of the house
        and waited.  "I am in good luck to-day," thought he.  "It is sure
        to cry soon, and a daintier morsel I haven't had for many a long
        day."  So he waited, and he waited, and he waited, till at last
        the child began to cry, and the Wolf came forward before the
        window, and looked up to the Nurse, wagging his tail.  But all the
        Nurse did was to shut down the window and call for help, and the
        dogs of the house came rushing out.  "Ah," said the Wolf as he
        galloped away,
       
        "Enemies promises were made to be broken."