Chapter 50 49. Uncle Wolf

Once upon a time there was a gluttonous girl.On the day of the carnival, the teacher said to the girls: "Whoever is a good boy and finishes knitting will fry cakes for him." The girl could not knit at all, so she asked the teacher for leave and pretended to go to the bathroom.She locked herself in the bathroom and fell asleep.When she returned to the classroom, the other girls had already finished eating the fried cakes.She went home crying and told her mother what happened at school. "Don't cry, poor little one. Mom will make fried cakes for you," Mom said.But the family is very poor, and there is no fryer. "Go to Uncle Wolf and ask him to lend us the pot."

The little girl came to the door of Uncle Wolf's house and knocked on the door "Boom, boom!" "Who is it?" "it's me!" "No one has knocked on this door for many years and months! What do you want?" "Mom asked me to come here, and I want to borrow a pot from you to make fried cakes." "Wait, let me put my shirt on." "Boom, boom!" "Wait, let me put my pants on." "Boom, boom!" "Wait, let me put my pants on." "Boom, boom!" "Wait, let me put my coat on."

At last Uncle Wolf opened the door, handed her a pot, and said, "I'll lend you the pot, but tell mother that when you return the pot, fill it with a pot of fried cakes, a roll of bread, and a bottle of wine. " "Okay, okay, I'll definitely bring it." When he got home, his mother made him a lot of delicious fried cakes and left a pot for Uncle Wolf.Before dark, she said to the little girl, "Take these fried cakes to Uncle Wolf, and a bun and this bottle of wine." The little girl was so hungry that she began to smell the aroma of fried cakes along the way.Ah, it smells so good!Try one!In this way, one by two, three, the little girl ate all the fried cakes, and with the fried cakes, she also ate the buns, and in order to put the fried cakes and bread down, she even drank all the wine.

After eating and drinking, in order to fill the pot, the little girl grabbed some donkey dung on the road and put them in, and poured some dirty water into the wine bottle.She then kneaded the shape of the bun out of the plaster of a bricklayer who worked by the side of the road.When she arrived at Uncle Wolf's house, she gave him all these dirty things. Uncle Wolf tasted a fried cake. "Bah! This is donkey dung!" He immediately took a sip of wine and rinsed the stench from his mouth. "Bah! It's dirty water!" He took another bite of the bun. "Bah! It's plaster!" Uncle Wolf stared at the little girl with burning eyes, and said, "I'm going to eat you tonight!"

The little girl ran home and told her mother, "Uncle Wolf is coming to eat me tonight!" Mom quickly closed the door, closed the windows, and closed all the loopholes in the house, trying to prevent Uncle Wolf from entering the house, but she forgot to close the chimney too. At night, the little girl had already gone to bed, and she heard Uncle Wolf's voice outside: "I'm coming to eat you! I'm at your door!" Then I heard footsteps on the tiles: "I'm coming to eat you , I'm on the roof!" After a while, I heard a loud voice coming down the chimney: "I'm coming to eat you! I'm in the chimney!"

"Mommy, Mommy, the wolf is coming!" "Hurry up and hide under the quilt!" "I'm coming to eat you! I'm in the fireplace!" The little girl curled up in the corner of the bed, trembling like a leaf in fright. "I'm coming to eat you! I'm in the house!" The little girl held her breath in fright. "I'm coming to eat you! I'm at the bed! Ah! I've eaten you!" Then the wolf ate the little girl. In this way, Uncle Wolf always eats gluttonous girls. (Romagna region)