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<\/p>\nIn the woods a night of snow and howling winds and wolves at the wheels. Mother said, \u201cThey are getting too near,\u201d and Father said, \u201cThen throw them our youngest son, so we may escape.\u201d Said Mother, \u201cBut he is our child,\u201d and to that Father said, \u201cWe have two more.\u201d So Mother threw her youngest son over the side of the cart, and the wolves circled around the boy and in the darkness they consumed him.<\/p>\n
But soon the wolves were back at their wheels. Mother said, \u201cThey are getting too near,\u201d and Father said, \u201cThen throw them our daughter, so we may escape.\u201d Said Mother, \u201cBut she is our child,\u201d and to that Father said, \u201cWe have one more.\u201d So Mother threw her daughter over the side of the cart, and the wolves circled round the girl and in the darkness they consumed her.<\/p>\n
But soon the wolves were back at their wheels. Mother said, \u201cThey are getting too near,\u201d and Father said, \u201cThen throw them our eldest son, so we may escape.\u201d Said Mother, \u201cBut he is our child,\u201d and to that Father said, \u201cWe can always make more.\u201d So Mother threw the eldest son over the side of the cart, and the wolves circled round the boy and in the darkness consumed him.<\/p>\n
But soon the wolves were back at their wheels. Mother said, \u201cThey are getting too near,\u201d and Father said, \u201cThen throw them yourself, so that I may escape.\u201d Said Mother, \u201cBut I am your wife,\u201d and to that Father said, \u201cI can always marry another.\u201d So Mother threw herself over the side of the cart, and the wolves circled round the woman and in the darkness consumed her.<\/p>\n
But soon the wolves were back at his wheels. Father said, \u201cThey are getting too near,\u201d but there was no-one left to throw, and soon the wolves had surrounded him, and Father was forced to stop. The wolves circled the man, round and round in the darkness. They began to shiver and cough and choke and one by one they spat out his children and finally his wife. <\/p>\n
And his family circled round and in the darkness they consumed him.<\/p>\n
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1. Written on July 21st, 2014<\/em> In the woods a night of snow and howling winds and wolves at the wheels. Mother said, \u201cThey are getting too near,\u201d and Father said, \u201cThen throw them our youngest son, so we may escape.\u201d Said Mother, \u201cBut he is our child,\u201d and to that Father said, \u201cWe have two more.\u201d So Mother threw her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[20,82,21,35,23,22,29,42,107,84,108,109],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-thousand-and-one-tales","tag-a-thousand-and-one-tales","tag-children","tag-fairy-tales","tag-fathers","tag-fiction","tag-folk-tales","tag-holly-english","tag-illustrations","tag-mothers","tag-the-three-wishes","tag-the-wolves-in-the-woods","tag-wolves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. Illustrated by Holly English<\/a><\/em>
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