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THE NURSE AND THE WOLF. 



A Nurse, who was endeavouring to quiet a fro- 

 ward child, among other things threatened to throw 

 it out of doors to the Wolf, if it did not leave off 

 crying. A Wolf, who chanced to Be prowling 

 near the door just at the time, heard the expres- 

 sion, and believing the woman to be in earnest, 

 waited a long while about the house, in expectation 

 of having her words made good. But at last the 

 child, wearied with its own perverseness, fell asleep, 

 and the Wolf was forced to return back into the 

 woods, empty and supperless. The Fox meeting 

 him, and surprized to see him go home so thin and 

 disconsolate, asked him what the matter was, and 

 how he came to speed no better that night r Ah! 

 do not ask me, says he, I was so silly as to believe 

 what the Nurse said, and have been disappointed. 



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