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Once upon a time... in the middle of a thick forest stood a small cottage, the home of a pretty little girl known to everyone as Little Red Riding Hood. One day, her Mummy waved her goodbye at the garden gate, saying, 'Grandma is ill. Take her this basket of cakes, but be very careful. Keep to the path through the wood and don't ever stop. That way, you will come to no harm.'

Little Red Riding Hood kissed her mother and ran off. 'Don't worry', she said, 'I'll run all the way to Grandma's without stopping'.

Full of good intensions, the little girl made her way through the wood, but she was soon to forget her mother's wise words. 'What lovely strawberries! And so red...'

Laying her basket on the ground, Little Red Riding Hood bent over the strawberry plants. 'They're nice and ripe, and so big! Yummy! Delicious! Just another one. And one more. This is the last... Well, this one... Mmmm.'

The red fruit peeped invitingly through the leaves in the grassy glade, and Little Red Riding Hood ran back and forth popping strawberries into her mouth. Suddenly she remembered her mother, her promise, Grandma and the basket... and hurried back towards the path. The basket was still in the grass and, humming to herself, Little Red Riding Hood walked on.

The wood became thicker and thicker. Suddenly a yellow butterfly fluttered down through the trees. Little Red Riding Hood started to chase the butterfly.

Til catch you! I'll catch you!' she called. Suddenly she saw some large daisies in the grass.

'Oh, how sweet!' she exclaimed and, thinking of Grandma, she picked a large bunch of flowers.

In the meantime, two wicked eyes were spying on her from behind a tree... a strange rustling in the woods made Little Red Riding Hood's heart thump.

Now quite afraid, she said to herself, 'I must find the path and run away from here!'

At last, she reached the path again, but her heart leapt into her mouth at the sound of a gruff voice which said; 'Where are you going, my pretty girl, all alone in the woods?'

'I'm taking Grandma some cakes. She lives at the end of the path,' said Little Riding Hood in a faint voice.

When he heard this, the wolf (for it was the big bad wolf himself) politely asked: 'Does Grandma live by herself?'

'Oh, yes,' replied Little Red Riding Hood, 'and she never opens the door to strangers!'

'Goodbye. Perhaps we'll meet again,' replied the wolf. Then he loped away thinking to himself 'I'll gobble the grandmother first, then lie in wait for the grandchild!' At last, the cottage came in sight. Knock! Knock! The wolf rapped on the door.

'Who's there?' cried Grandma from her bed.

'It's me, Little Red Riding Hood. I've brought you some cakes because you're ill,' replied the wolf, trying hard to hide his gruff voice.

'Lift the latch and come in,' said Grandma, unaware of anything amiss, till the horrible shadow appeared on the wall. Poor Grandma! For in one bound, the wolf leapt across the room, in a single mouthful swallowed the old lady. Soon after, Little Red Riding Hood tapped on the door.

'Grandma, can I come in?' she called.

Now, the wolf had put on the old lady's shawl and cap and slipped into the bed. Trying to imitate Grandma's quavering little voice, he replied, 'Open the latch and come in!'

'What a deep voice you have,' said the little girl in surprise.

'The better to greet you with,' said the wolf.

'Goodness, what big eyes you have.'

'The better to see you with.'

'And what big hands you have!' exclaimed Little Red Riding Hood, stepping over to the bed.

'The better to hug you with,' said the wolf.

'What a big mouth you have,' the little girl murmured in a weak voice.

'The better to eat you with!' growled the wolf, and jumping out of bed, he swallowed her up too. Then, with a fat full tummy, he fell fast asleep.

In the meanwhile, a hunter had emerged from the wood, and on noticing the cottage, he decided to stop and ask for a drink. He had spent a lot of time trying to catch a large wolf that had been terrorising the neighbourhood, but had lost its tracks. The hunter could hear a strange whistling sound; it seemed to be coming from inside the cottage. He peered through the window... and saw the large wolf himself, with a fat full tummy, snoring away in Grandma's bed.

'The wolf! He won't get away this time!'

Without making a sound, the hunter carefully loaded his gun and gently opened the window. He pointed the barrel straight at the wolf's head and ... BANG! The wolf was dead.

'Got you at last!' shouted the hunter in glee. 'You'll never frighten anyone again.'

He cut open the wolf's stomach and to his amazement, out popped Grandma and Little Red Riding Hood, safe and unharmed.

'You arrived just in time,' murmured the old lady, quite overcome by all the excitement.

'It's safe to go home now/ the hunter told Little Red Riding Hood. 'The big bad wolf is dead and gone, and there is no danger on the path.'

Still scared, the little girl hugged her grandmother. 'Oh, what a dreadrul fright!'

Much later, as dusk was falling, Little Red Riding Hood's mother arrived, all out of breath, worried, because her little girl had not come home. And when she saw Little Red Riding Hood, safe and sound, she burst into tears of joy.

After thanking the hunter again, Little Red Riding Hood and her mother set off towards the wood. As they walked quickly through -the trees, the little girl told her mother, 'We must keep to the path and never stop. That way, we'll come to no harm'.

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What noise annoys an oyster most?
A noisy noise annoys an oyster most.

Ripe white wheat reapers reap ripe white wheat right.

Blake's black bike's back brake bracket block broke.

Each Easter Eddie eats eighty Easter eggs.

She slits the sheet she sits on.

A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of
Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.

A twister of twists once twisted a twist.
and the twist that he twisted was a three twisted twist.
now in twisting this twist, if a twist should untwist,
would the twist that untwisted untwist the twists.

Red lolly, yellow lolly.

I am a mother pheasant plucker,
I pluck mother pheasants.
I am the best mother pheasant plucker,
that ever plucked a mother pheasant!

Mrs Hunt had a country cut front
in the front of her country cut pettycoat.

Knapsack strap.

Where Molly had had "had had", "had had" had had the teacher's approval.

Miss Smith's fish-sauce shop seldom sells shellfish.

Great gray goats

Whenever the weather is cold.
Whenever the weather is hot.
We'll whether the weather,
whatever the weather,
whether we like it or not.

Sunshine city, sunshine city, sunshine city, ...

The batter with the butter is the batter that is better!

There's a sandwich on the sand which was sent by a sane witch.

How many yaks could a yak pack pack if a yak pack could pack yaks?

Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs.

One smart man, he felt smart.
Two smart men, they both felt smart.
Three smart men, they all felt smart.

If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker
it is slick to stick a lock upon your stock
or some joker who is slicker
is going to trick you of your liquor
if you fail to lock your liquor with a lock.

Clowns grow glowing crowns.

Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager
imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?

Sister Suzie sewing shirts for soldiers
Such skill as sewing shirts
Our shy young sister Suzie shows
Some soldiers send epistles
Say they'd rather sleep in thistles
Than the saucy, soft short shirts for soldiers Sister Suzie sews.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

Richard's wretched ratchet wrench.

Rubber baby buggy bumpers.

Betty Botter bought some butter but, said she, the butter's bitter.
If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter will make my bitter batter better.
So she bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter,
put it in her bitter batter, made her bitter batter better.
So 'twas better Betty Botter bought some better butter.

A box of biscuits,
a box of mixed biscuits,
and a biscuit mixer.

When a doctor doctors a doctor,
does the doctor doing the doctoring
doctor as the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored or
does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as he wants to doctor?

If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?

The soldier's shoulder surely hurts!

She sees seas slapping shores.

Mr. See owned a saw and Mr Soar owned a seesaw.
Now See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw before Soar saw See.

Six sick sea-serpents swam the seven seas.

There was a little witch which switched from Chichester to Ipswich.

She brews a proper cup of coffee in a copper coffee pot.

She is a thistle sifter.
She has a seive of unsifted thistles
and a seive of sifted thistles and the seive of unsifted thistles
she sifts into the seive of sifted thistles because she is a thistle sifter.

Betty bought some butter,
but the butter Betty bought was bitter,
so Betty bought some better butter,
and the better butter Betty bought
was better than the bitter butter Betty bought before!

I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit, and on that slitted sheet I sit.

Don't spring on the inner-spring this spring or there will be an offspring next
spring.

King Thistle stuck a thousand thistles in the thistle of his thumb.
A thousand thistles King Thistle stuck in the thistle of his thumb.
If King Thistle stuck a thousand thistles in the thistle of his thumb,
How many thistles did King Thistle stick in the thistle of his thumb?

Five fat friars frying flat fish.

Betty bought some bitter butter
and it made her batter bitter,
so Betty bought some better butter
to make her bitter batter better.

A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump thunk,
but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.

I'm not the fig plucker,
nor the fig pluckers' son,
but I'll pluck figs
Till the fig plucker comes.

The sixth sheik's sixth sheep 's sick.

One black beetle bled only black blood, the other black beetle bled blue.

The big black bug's blood ran blue.

Ray Rag ran across a rough road.
Across a rough road Ray Rag ran.
Where is the rough road Ray Rag ran across?

A Tudor who tooted the flute
tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to the tutor,
"Is it harder to toot or
to tutor two tooters to toot?"

A big black bug bit a big black bear and made the big black bear bleed blood.

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck
if a wooodchuck could chuck wood?
A woodchuck could chuck as much wood
as a woodchuck would chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn't the thought
I thought I thought.
If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought,
I wouldn't have thought so much.

She sells sea shells on the seashore.
The seashells she sells are seashells she is sure.

Plain bun, plum bun, bun without plum.

Six stick shifts stuck shut.

The king would sing, about a ring that would go ding.

People pledging plenty of pennies.

To begin to toboggan first, buy a toboggan.
But do not buy too big a toboggan!
Too big a toboggan is too big a toboggan to buy to begin to toboggan.

Switch watch, wrist watch.

Six thick thistle sticks.

Irish wristwatch