The Nurse and the Wolf
    
    
      "Be quiet now," said an old Nurse to a child sitting on her
    lap.  "If you make that noise again I will throw you to the Wolf."
    
      Now it chanced that a Wolf was passing close under the window
    as this was said.  So he crouched down by the side of the house
    and waited.  "I am in good luck to-day," thought he.  "It is sure
    to cry soon, and a daintier morsel I haven't had for many a long
    day."  So he waited, and he waited, and he waited, till at last
    the child began to cry, and the Wolf came forward before the
    window, and looked up to the Nurse, wagging his tail.  But all the
    Nurse did was to shut down the window and call for help, and the
    dogs of the house came rushing out.  "Ah," said the Wolf as he
    galloped away,
    
    
    	"Enemies promises were made to be broken."
    


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