(A)
It was a cold morning. It snowed heavily and everything turned white.
A father wolf got up early. His wife and babies are hungry. Then the small animals were in their dens (兽穴) and the birds were all in the trees. He walked and walked, but found nothing in the forest.
“I’d better go in the village,” the wolf thought,“ Maybe I can catch a duck or a sheep there.”
So he went there and listened carefully. When he passed the door of a house, he heard a mother say to her child, “Be quiet, or will throw you out of the window, and the wolf will eat you.”
The wolf sat all afternoon waiting at the door. In the evening he heard the same mother fondling (安抚) her child and saying , “ You’re a good boy now, and if the wolf comes, we will kill him.”
The wolf heard these words, of course, ran home quickly, cold and hungry. His wife saw him and asked why he returned so tired and supperless. He answered, “Why, I was a fool because I believed in the words of a woman.”
