Little Red Riding Hood

PAGE 1/2 Once upon a time there was a dear little girl who was loved by every one who looked at her, but most of all by her grandmother, and there was

Caperucita Roja
PAGINA 1/2 Haba una vez una adorable nia que era amada por todo aquel que le miraba, pero sobretodo por su abuela, y no haba nada que ella no le habra

nothing that she would not have given to the child. dado a la nia. Una vez, ella le dio un pequea Once she gave her a little cap of red velvet, which casaca de terciopelo rojo, que le quedaba tan suited her so well that she would never wear bien que ella no vesta otra prenda. As fue que

anything else. So she was always called Little Red siempre le decan Caperucita Roja. Riding Hood. One day her mother said to her, "Come, Little Red Un da su madre le dijo, "Ven, Caperucita Roja, Riding Hood, here is a piece of cake and a bottle of aqu hay un trozo de torta y una botella de vino. wine. Take them to your grandmother, she is ill and Llvalas a tu abuela, ella est enferma y dbil, y weak, and they will do her good. Set out before it le harn bien. Emprende tu viaje antes que haga

gets hot, and when you are going, walk nicely and calor, y cuando vayas, camina bien y tranquila y quietly and do not run off the path, or you may fall no te apartes del sendero, o puedes caerte y and break the bottle, and then your grandmother will get nothing. And when you go into her room, don't forget to say, good-morning, and don't peep romper la botella, y entonces tu abuela no tendr nada. Y cuando entres a su cuarto, no te olvides de decir, buenos das, y no curiosees en cada

into every corner before you do it." I will take great rincn antes de hacerlo." "Tendr especial care, said Little Red Riding Hood to her mother, and left The grandmother lived out in the wood, half a league from the village, and just as Little Red Riding Hood entered the wood, a wolf met her. cuidado", dijo Caperucita Roja a su madre, y se fue. La abuela viva hacia el bosque, a media legua de la aldea, y apenas Caperucita Roja entr en el bosque, un lobo la encontr en el camino.

Little Red Riding Hood did not know what a wicked Caperucita Roja desconoca qu criatura creature he was, and was not at all afraid of him. "Good-day, Little Red Riding Hood," said he. "Thank you kindly, wolf." perversa era l, y no le tuvo miedo. "Buenos dias, Caperucita Roja," le dijo. "Gracias , lobo."

"Whither away so early, Little Red Riding Hood?" "To my grandmother's." "What have you got in your apron?" "Cake and wine. Yesterday was baking-day, so poor sick grandmother is to have something good, to make her stronger." "Where does your grandmother live, Little Red Riding Hood?" "A good quarter of a league farther on in the wood. Her house stands under the three large oak-trees. You surely must know it," replied Little Red Riding Hood.

"Andando lejos tan temprano, Caperucita Roja?" "A la casa de mi abuela. " "Qu traes en tu delantal?" "Torta y vino. Ayer fue dia de hornear, as que la abuela enferma tendr algo bueno que la fortalezca." "Dnde vive tu abuela, Caperucita Roja?" "A un buen cuarto de legua en el interior del bosque. Su casa est debajo de los tres grandes robles. Seguramente usted la conoce", respondi Caperucita Roja.

The wolf thought to himself, "What a tender young El lobo pens: "Qu criatura joven y tierna. Ser creature. She will be better to eat than the old woman. I must act carefully." So he walked for a short time by the side of Little Red Riding Hood, ms fcil de comer que la anciana. Debo actuar con cuidado." Entonces camin un rato al lado de Caperucita Roja, y luego dijo, "Observa

and then he said, "See Little Red Riding Hood, how Caperucita Roja, qu hermosas son las flores por pretty the flowers are about here why do you not aqu por qu no miras a tu alrededor? Creo, look around? I believe, too, that you do not hear how sweetly the little birds are singing; you walk tambin, que no escuchas lo dulcemente que estn cantando los pajarillos; caminas seria como

gravely along as if you were going to school, while si fueras a la escuela, mientras que todo aqu en everything else out here in the wood is very merry. el bosque es muy alegre." Little Red Riding Hood raised her eyes, and when Caperucita Roja alz sus ojos, y cuando vio los she saw the sunbeams dancing here and there through the trees, and pretty flowers growing everywhere, she thought, 'Suppose I take rayos de sol bailando por aqu y por all a travs de los rboles, y las hermosas flores creciendo por doquier, pens, 'Y si le llevo a mi abuela

grandmother a rose. That would please her too. It una rosa? Eso la complaceria tambin. Es tan is so early in the day that I shall still get there in good time.' And so she ran from the path into the temprano que tendr tiempo suficiente para llegar.' Y se alej del sendero hacia el bosque en

wood to look for a rose. Meanwhile the wolf ran straight to the grandmother's house and knocked at the door. "Who is there?" "Little Red Riding Hood," replied the wolf. "I am bringing cake and wine. Open the door." "Lift the latch," called out the grandmother, "I am too weak, and cannot get up."

busca de una rosa. Mientras tanto el lobo corri directamente a la casa de la abuela y golpe la puerta. "Quin es?" "Caperucita Roja," contest el lobo. "Traigo la torta y el vino. Abre la puerta." "Levanta el cerrojo," grit la abuela, "Estoy demasiado dbil, y no puedo levantarme."

Little Red Riding Hood

PAGE 2/2 The wolf lifted the latch, the door sprang open, and without saying a word he went straight to the grandmother's bed, and devoured her. Then he put on her clothes, dressed himself in her cap, laid himself in bed. Little Red Riding Hood, however, had been running about picking roses, and when she had gathered so many that she could carry no more, she remembered her grandmother, and set out on the way to her. She was surprised to find the cottage-door standing open, and when she went into the room, she had such a strange feeling that she said to herself, 'Oh dear, how uneasy I feel today, and at other times I like being with grandmother so much.' She called out, "Good morning," but received no answer. So she went to the bed. There lay her grandmother. "Oh, grandmother," she said, "what big ears you have."

Caperucita Roja
PAGINA 2/2 El lobo levant el cerrojo, la puerta se abri violentamente, y sin decir una palabra fue derecho a la cama de la abuela, y la devor.

Luego se puso su ropa, se visti con su gorro, se ech en la cama. Caperucita Roja, por su parte, haba estado buscando y recogiendo rosas, y cuando haba recolectado tantas que

ya no poda llevar ms, se acord de su abuel y se dirigi hacia ella.

Le sorprendi encontrar la puerta de la cabaa abierta y cuando entr al cuarto, le sobrevino una sensacin tan extraa que se dijo a s

misma, 'Vaya, qu inquieta me siento hoy, y en otras oportunidades deseo tanto estar con la abuela.' Grit, 'Buenos dias," pero no recibi respuesta. Entonces se dirigi hacia la cama. All estaba recostada su abuela. "Oh, abuela," dijo, "qu odos tan grandes tienes."

"The better to hear you with, my child," was the reply. "But, grandmother, what big eyes you have," she said. "The better to see you with, my dear." "But, grandmother, what large hands you have." "The better to hug you with." "Oh, but, grandmother, what a terrible big mouth you have." "The better to eat you with." And scarcely had the wolf said this, he was out of bed and swallowed up Little Red Riding Hood. When the wolf had appeased his appetite, he lay down again in the bed, fell asleep and began to snore very loud. A huntsman was just passing the house, and thought to himself, 'How the old woman is snoring. I must just see if she wants anything.' So he went into the room, and when he came to the bed, he saw that the wolf was lying in it. "Do I find you here, you old sinner," said he. "I have long sought you." Then just as he was going to fire at him, it occurred to him that the wolf might have devoured the grandmother, and that she might still be saved, so he did not fire, but took a pair of scissors, and began to cut open the stomach of the sleeping wolf. When he had made two snips, he saw the Little Red Riding Hood, and then he made two snips more, and the little girl sprang out, crying, "Ah,

"Para escucharte mejor, mi nia," fue la respuesta.. "Pero, abuela, qu ojos tan grandes tienes," dijo. "Para verte mejor, querida."

"Pero, abuela, qu manos tan grandes tienes." "Para abrazarte mejor." "Oh, pero, abuela, qu boca tan grande y terrible tienes." "Para comerte mejor." Y apenas haba dicho esto, el lobo salt de la cama y se trag a Caperucita Roja. Cuando el lobo haba calmado su apetito, se

ech nuevamente en la cama, cay dormido y comenz a roncar muy ruidosamente. Un cazador pasaba en ese momento por la casa,

pens, "Cmo est roncando la anciana. Ver necesita algo." Entonces entr al cuarto, y cuando se acerc a la cama, vio que el lobo estaba echado en ella. "Vengo a encontrarte justo aqu, viejo pecador," le dijo. "Te he buscado por largo tiempo." Entonces justo cuando estaba por dispararle, se le ocurr qu el lobo poda haberse devorado a la abuela, y que ella an podra salvarse, as que no

dispar, sino tom un par de tijeras, y comenz a cortar el estmago del lobo que dorma. Cuando haba hecho dos cortes, vio a la

pequea Caperucita Roja, y entonces hizo dos cortes ms, y la nia salt, gritando, "Ay, qu

how frightened I have been. How dark it was inside the wolf." And after that the aged grandmother came out alive also, but scarcely able to breathe. Little Red Riding Hood, however, quickly fetched great stones with which they filled the wolf's belly, and when he awoke, he wanted to run away, but the stones were so heavy that he collapsed at once, and fell dead.

asustada he estado. Qu oscuro estaba dentro del lobo."

Y a continuacin la envejecida abuela sali viv tambin, pero casi incapaz de respirar.

Caperucita Roja, sin embargo, rpidamente fu

a buscar grandes piedras con las que llenaron el vientre del lobo, y cuando ste se despert,

intent huir, pero las piedras eran tan pesadas que se derrumb al instante, y cay muerto.