She fastened the latch tight, 3 Warned her Kid saying: 4 “Do not, upon your life, 5 Open the door unless you are shown 6 This sign and told this password: 7 ‘Plague on the wolf and his breed!’” 8 As she was saying these words 9 The Wolf by chance prowling around, 10 Overheard the spoken words 11 and kept them in his memory. 12 Notes: Nanny-Goat, as one can well believe, 13 Had not yet seen the glutton beast. 14 As soon as she departs, he changes his voice 15 And in a counterfeit tone 16 He asks to be let in, saying: “Plague on the Wolf,” 17 Believing he’d go right in. 18 The canny Kid looks through the crack, 19 “Show me your white paw, else I’ll not open.” 20 He shouted at once. (White paw is a thing 21 Seldom seen in wolfdom, as everyone knows.) 22 This Wolf, aghast upon hearing these words, 23 Went slinking home the same way he had come. 24 Where would the Kid be now, had he believed 25 The password, which by chance 26
3 She fastened the latch tight, 4 Warned her Kid saying: 5 “Do not, upon your life, 6 Open the door unless you are shown 7 This sign and told this password: 8 ‘Plague on the wolf and his breed!’” 9 As she was saying these words 10 The Wolf by chance prowling around, 11 Overheard the spoken words 12 and kept them in his memory. Notes: 13 Nanny-Goat, as one can well believe, 14 Had not yet seen the glutton beast. 15 As soon as she departs, he changes his voice 16 And in a counterfeit tone 17 He asks to be let in, saying: “Plague on the Wolf,” 18 Believing he’d go right in. 19 The canny Kid looks through the crack, 20 “Show me your white paw, else I’ll not open.” 21 He shouted at once. (White paw is a thing 22 Seldom seen in wolfdom, as everyone knows.) 23 This Wolf, aghast upon hearing these words, 24 Went slinking home the same way he had come. 25 Where would the Kid be now, had he believed 26 The password, which by chance
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