And the little girl had approached the bed no nearer than thirty feet when she pulled out a pistol and shot the wolf dead for even in a cap and nightgown a wolf looks no more like your grandmother than Calvin Coolidge looks like the Metro-Goldwyn lion. Moral Little girls are not so easy to fool nowadays as they used to be.
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