![]() Then they fill the wolf's body with heavy stones. Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother emerge shaken, but unharmed. A woodcutter in the French version, or a hunter in the Brothers Grimm and traditional German versions, comes to the rescue with an axe, and cuts open the sleeping wolf. In later and better-known versions, the story continues. In Charles Perrault's version of the story (the first version to be published), the tale ends here. She says, "What a deep voice you have!" ("The better to greet you with", responds the wolf), "Goodness, what big eyes you have!" ("The better to see you with", responds the wolf), "And what big hands you have!" ("The better to embrace you with", responds the wolf), and lastly, "What a big mouth you have" ("The better to eat you with!", responds the wolf), at which point the wolf jumps out of the bed and eats her, too. When the girl arrives, she notices that her grandmother looks very strange. Gustave Doré's engraving of the scene: "She was astonished to see how her grandmother looked." ![]()
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