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In those days housework was a lot harder than it is today. They had to
fetch water from a well, grind whatever grain they had to make bread and
search in the woods to find dry wood with which to make a fire to bake the
bread. It was not only hard, but very time consuming.

One day the two ladies settled their babies down for a nap together and
went about their daily chores. During their absence, and unseen by

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anyone, a sly wolf crept into the house, stole one of the babies and ran off
with it.

The older mother was the first to return and went to see her baby. You can
imagine how absolutely horrified she was when she saw a baby was
missing. She looked all over the place for the missing baby but could not
find it, all she could see were the paw prints of the wolf and she feared the
worst.