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he's not going enough what's wrong with

it ventilation he's got ventilation look

at it it's all clear

she'll be unzo and test it go on that's

not enough

not enough

anymore you'll have him dead of

pneumonia dead

don't you talk to me about dead ones you

slaughtered one of his chums last week

sent him off in a box like this never

even reached the airport that wasn't my

fault suffocated

am i supposed to be to be responsible

for

it responsible a pure accident

something fell down and blocked the

grill some sacking

so don't you come round here mr cruelty

ma'am yelling your head off at me in

front of my stuff should have been two

girls

you were too at least you know that and

if your staff don't they do now

that won't do

what's wrong now get him a bigger crate

something he can move around in i don't

have to i'm suggesting it

what else a little velvet cushion for

him to sit on

listen this crate is acceptable to the

airline yes we're after them too mr jack

you're not on your own in the meantime

set him a good example and get this

cheater on the road well and happy and i

mean happy

you run in this outfit yes it might be

an idea look don't you talk to me

i was an animal trader when you couldn't

spell cat gut i can handle them

like through there now i've got big

stuff

lions half a dozen lions

two bears

three more like him cheetahs

hundred nod monkeys for research

that's a lot of my money tied up in fur

coats i think i don't look after i want

to see your books

books your record books now you've got

no authority i'm asking

i could have you flung out of here

right

find another trade for that

vodka the only thing acts faster not for

me

not while i'm on duty sir hey

you know when you first came in i

thought you wear a cup and i thought my

god they're taking all sorts these days

and i saw the cruelty badges the books

you'll be

lucky yourself

quarantine record it's there

you're new to this area

name again curry

inspector curry hot on the trail i bet

you suffered with that not till now

oh it's all down there meticulous

imputation dates dates out of

quadrantine you won't find a thing quite

a few cheaters where do they go

some for the export like show me out

there

otherwise cheetah fanciers

is that so oh they buy them like cats

not my fancy but then i don't like cats

sumatran honey bears

private zoos

wolves same thing

look inspector you're just fishing call

it a day timberwolf origin hungary

i told you this is legitimate trade

where did this wolf go

oh look look just for instance

i'm sure they found a good home don't be

funny it's a canine and canines are

principal rabies suspects all right all

right

there full quadrantine period and note

of sale

where

there

to the pet shop westbury road a wolf

there's another one the same timberwolf

romanian origin where did this one go

to the pet shop westbury road if that's

what it says that's where it went and

there's another one

so what well i don't believe it oh look

look i've seen that shop it's a little

olden corner place budgies and hamsters

not wolves what do you suggest you

should have made it a little more

convincing better address london zoo or

safari park not the pet shop westbury

road oh inspector carly where did these

wolves really go

no

i think you slipped them out of

quarantine and then sold them then faked

these entries to put the dates right

it's just the tip of the iceberg

your mistake was to let it show

i'm warning you i'm not gonna let this

drop i shall go back over every single

transaction i'm on to you jeb

handicops

take me an inspector

for questioning to help with your

inquiry wish i could

inspector curry of the yard i shall have

your license

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that's it exactly

give him a bit more jelly eh he likes

the jelly

good for him

he knows that

sticker type piece

thank you very much

thank you

mrs florence raymond miss oh i beg your

pun miss raymond i'm inspector carrie

rspca is something wrong no no no no i'd

just be grateful for your help in a

purely routine inquiry of course thank

you

it's a nice shop we've got here i keep

everything in good order yes i can see

plenty of fresh sawdust i was told by

that

what's hiding up here mice baby hamsters

a litter of them happy family

hello then

a nice kittens please

what's it about

sorry your inquiry oh it's um rabbits i

seen guinea pigs

badges finches

you don't you don't go anything for

anything more exotic

exotic well monkeys for instance no i'd

never said the monkey they're difficult

pets yes quite right people don't

realize exactly then they want to get

rid of them have them destroyed

well i don't think i need bother you

anymore ms raymond what about your

inquiry well you've answered it you

never asked me yes i didn't you told me

i don't understand no please don't worry

i'll just say thank you very much and

good afternoon i don't think i like this

look i can assure you this inspector

curry

if there's something going on that

concerns me i'd like to know what it is

it's really nothing worth upsetting

please inspector

well i uh i i think somebody's been

using the name of your shop what

how well to cover up his tracks faking

entries records my shop

oh please don't worry you won't be the

only one i'm just getting started who is

it

packet of birdseed

no the other kind my usual

it's of course

17p

oh it's an animal dealer

mystery mother have you ever taken

delivery of a

hungarian timberwolf

well now you see what i mean now if you

get involved at all it'll be simply a

formality

sometimes

no please put it out of your head now

sometimes we get a request for an

unusual pet it must have been something

like that

you did have one

i really don't remember well this was

dated only a couple of months ago i mean

if you if it happened you'd hardly

forget it no and there were others

before that several injuries were put

down to the shop miss raymond you must

know

you better talk to my father

your father i can't talk about it you

must ask him that is if he's willing he

doesn't often see people where is he

in the house

perhaps you could come back another time

well i think perhaps i'd better see him

now

just a moment

wait here please tell him this is

important i mean to me

that must be very nice for you

oh

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come this way inspector thank you

you see

yes father well you've achieved it

you've got him here done what you wanted

now and get out

inspect to cut him my friend i'll handle

this get back to the shop

what's your name

inspector curry rspca

royal society for the prevention of

cruelty to animals

there's no cruelty here did you think

the walls no i was just checking some

records oh checking yes

always some little man somewhere

checking something in uniform or out

checking means preventing is that what

you do prevent things if they're wrong i

try and even if they're right oh i know

you people you are kind of

are you an exception i could do my job

oh yes

i think i'd better explain exactly why

i'm here if you are here on some proper

errand there can only be one reason for

it well

what's she done

who

my daughter my lawfully engendered fool

has she broken a bylaw sold some rotten

cat's meat no nothing of the kind

pity

not even that much life in her

can't even offend

it's it's not about the shop well at

least not directly

it's about wolves

you know is it in the course of some

routine inquiries of course there's some

routine inquiries now there's a nice

round frame i found occasional records

of wolves being delivered to this shop

it seemed most unlikely it would

importer mr duggy jeb origin eastern

europe that's the best source now

you did have them

perfectly legal transactions

what's bothering you the political

affiliations that there were red wolves

no no i assure you they were grey as

usual

but what enough beautiful creatures

splendid condition i was very pleased

with them properly quarantined

of course

but where did they go what happened to

them

oh

is that your business

this is a properly licensed

establishment

we could sell them whatever we like

where did you what sell them that didn't

arise i'd take it as a kindness if you

tell me who they were for me

you i want them i kept them now are you

satisfied

uh have you still got them

inspector are you incapable of accepting

any answer where are they

idiotic examination i've taken quite

enough i am sorry my time is precious

you've heard the old canned phrase time

is money well mine is pure gold i'm

sorry i didn't get out

well talk of the devil

you've got a keen love here joe look

after him

chill

right

what did he want sniffing about trying

to find out if you'd reported him what

did you say nothing i know nothing if i

did he's not a man i tell things to t no

next

you've got something on him

i thought i had what about quarantine

records oh

no i was wrong well that's sad he

deserves to be nailed

still don't

unless they were in it together who else

a man called raymond old raymond oh you

know him

you should have asked me him he's not in

anything with anybody he's in that case

i've just talked to him

you talked or tried

what could he possibly want with

timberwolves wolves three of them at

least that's all the entries

chief inspector nash he said they

weren't resold so i all right put it

through

kitten up a tree

yeah we used to hear a lot about

leo raymond the great scientist

scientist well self-styled he's just an

amateur crackpot always trying to get

his name in the papers hello mrs uh

oh still up there is she

oh dear

um offered her milk have you

and fish

well they all like fish

of course they do what was his line

his line

eccentric pronouncements uh you know

evolution darwin got it all wrong etc

and look missus uh why not try fish

boil up a few pilchards and let us smell

them

i crossed swords a few times with him in

the local press about evolution no

circus is animal training he had some

very peculiar ideas

look mrs you don't suppose those wolves

have it well give the fishmeal a try um

wave the panna butt under the tree

trying to tame them or something like

that just to prove that it joe

those wolves old draymond do you think

he could possibly have been now look

missus try out the fish dodge and if she

doesn't get it down in five minutes i'll

i'll i'll come round to myself yes yes

of course and yep

get the fire brigade too if necessary

you're back again yes i'd just like a

few more words with your father no you

upset him

well i didn't mean to he couldn't settle

to his wife for ages it was dreadful of

you wicked he couldn't even eat his

lunch

so if there's anything you've got a

right to know

you'd better ask me

thank you

it's about the wolves

oh yes your father admitted they were uh

they were supplied to this shop there

were three of them over the past 18

months yes what happened to them

didn't he tell you

well he got uh rather abusive then i

can't either but you said a moment ago i

said things you've got a right to

miss raymond these are rare wild animals

i am concerned about the condition and

their welfare what happened to them

look i could have the local authority

come and investigate the whole thing are

you prepared for that

don't

yes i'm not here to threaten i don't

like it i'm not even very good at it

they were needed

how

he had to have them for his work there

now his work yes mr amount what is his

work

i can't

even if i wanted to i couldn't

it's beyond me you see quite beyond my

intellectual capacity

he's so far above me so very much clever

when he's tried to explain it to me and

he often has

i i just couldn't grasp it

i did my best

inspector curry i'm only a foolish woman

but i know this much my father is a

genius

i believe he's one of the greatest men

in this world

not that it doesn't mean any good world

can't see him

it can't understand him any more than i

can

he's sort of never recognized in their

own time

isn't that awful

yes someday when his writings come to be

published there'll be shame on this land

but it'll be too late miss raymond i cry

about him at night it's getting old

you look after him

you serve him

say that

mr curry

if i could somehow make it happen for

him

if only

i do just about anything

anything

sorry

what's going on down there who's that

oh the rspca

mr raymond is she giving you trouble

trouble

sounds like it

mr raymond i think forget her

come along in

florence make tea

some tea for our guest

yes father

mr curry

thank you

sit down

bring us some of your scones and things

pick out the good ones

she's as slow-witted as her late mother

without the mother's

compensating talents she's loyal

mr curry the loyalty of a stupid person

can be a very dulling commodity

so this is my bedroom and my study

combined i have to keep close to my

notes

sometimes i wake in the middle of the

night

that's when the best ideas come

the very best ones

the trackway of the mind is cleared of

the day's rubbish and

it's a clear run down to deeper levels

what's

i'm here to ask about your work ah

exactly what sort of thing is it one

moment please not so fast

it's a very serious thing to demand of a

man what is your work i hope you don't

mind your life's work i want to evaluate

it no nothing at all implied not at all

young man to old man it must be

a value judgment

what does his life's labor amount to

well so that we make sure because that

misunderstanding can be so much more

dangerous than ignorance

let's find out if you are able

what qualifications have you got a

degree oh no how about those little

badges yes we get training practical

mostly

now you've worked in the forest race

i've i've visited labs not quite the

same thing mr kali

you know you're really a kind of uh

private eye of the animal trade

if i were to use the term

dna

the

oxy-ribonucleic acid does it mean

anything

genetics

is that what it's about ah tea

unwantedly prompted i had the kettle

boiling just put it on the floor

there child

there

i put milk in the cups thank you now you

can get back to cleaning your hamsters

one's offspring are a distorting mirror

they mock one with themselves

i have to remember i'm not that

you know it's not very easy inspected to

pass

one's day in

a room above a back street pet shop

and still retain the certainty

any certainty at all

ah t's less watery than usual perhaps in

your honor

anything

i'm all right it's just a sudden leaning

over she'll be coming don't let her in

there's nothing wrong

uh

touch a fever maybe that's quite normal

with me

i've always had a very rapid metabolism

do you know what i ought to be now

lecturing to the british society for the

advancement of science

not my rights of course or flying off to

some international congress

stop calling perhaps

yes yes men have won the nobel prize for

less significant work than mine

i will try to understand oh you won't

manage it i'll do my best

my subject is

lycanthropy

well in trouble

uh

you can't mean it you know what it is

i think so well let's see if you've got

it right

men

are supposed to be able to change from

their own shape into animals

particularly the wolves then the

werewolf yes from the old english where

for man

man wolf it's a very

ancient and widespread belief yes that

doesn't mean that

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no smoke without fire

that's a good working principle i've

always found

the fire in this case lies in the

origins

of mankind

the origins of mammalian life

before it started to take over from the

dinosaur and the reptile that's where

you've got to look you mean fossils

good good

they

bone buried in the rock

the fossil record

you'll find many amazing examples of

common ancestry there

well i know about uh

like our souls and the apes oh that was

last week my dear boy

relatively speaking a slight recent

differentiation like the rhino and the

horse

no no i'm talking about

way back

before the eight men and the man apes

all the primates

50 million years or more ago

back to those first cruel little mammals

who hadn't decided

what to be

they evolved this way into the lemur

and things like us and then

pass

that way into the canines the

proto-wolves

the link is still there

what link

the memory of how it was

that far back certainly

but if

if you're trying to tell me that we can

remember something you do

me of course you do we all do

but not with the brain

the deepest memory isn't a mental

function at all

it's in the cells of the body every

single cell imprinted with the

individual and the race

it's the body not the brain that

remembers dna

oh

you see you haven't really understood it

after all

dna rna the whole spectrum of nucleic

acids

know what

are you

you're just playing with the scientific

terms

unworthy mr cuddly

unworthy

just because you all happen to be out of

your depth all right i am obviously

but all the same i mean

listen

come on come on some good honest common

sense to cut through the jargon

the distant past is in the past it's

gone

you can't reverse evolution of course

not yes but what you're talking about i

am talking about the present

those we left behind at the fork of the

road

they're still over there on the other

track we can call to them reconnect with

them

so you really believe that a living

individual of one species can change

into an individual of another yes

because that's what you're saying

and you mean that

mr raymond i i am going to prove it

you can't

i'm nearly there

but can't you see that you're just

sitting here and scribbling and picking

through a lot of complete nonsense i

mean that's all it can ever really

amount to

come in here

fully equipped

without my modest private income i

couldn't have managed it florence's

profits from the shop would hardly have

what's that for

now what do you think

vivisection

that's exactly the emotive word i would

have expected from you those wolves were

thoroughly anesthetized at all times

what did you do i can assure you that

canis lupus fully adult and unconscious

take some lifting my poor old tickle

what did you do

nothing you could object to

i've told you no cruelty

i have the highest professional

standards you cut them up

they

but humanely and painlessly put to death

at the proper time but before that i

took some spinal fluid and some tissue

from the brain and other parts and threw

the rest away

disposed

yes

a souvenir if you like

study my trapani method

you did all this for amusement

oh no

don't mistake me

i took what i wanted for my own real

purpose

i kept tissue alive in nutrient fluid i

preserves lymph freeze dried and

centrifuged as i'm faces for

oh

now we come up against your lack of

science what does it matter

let's call it

the grandma vaccine uh

grandma you're the term i use for it

when i used to try to explain my concept

before

little red riding hood

don't you remember

straight out of folklore a case history

don't you see it wasn't the wolf that

swallowed grandma

grandma was the wolf

pure lycanthropy it's a fairy tale a

folk memory

when little red riding hood saw what was

in the bed it wasn't a disguise

a wolf and a mob cap no child would have

been taken in by that no

it was grandma all right

but then

grandma what big eyes you have

grandma what long years you're growing

grandma

what a big nose you have now

grandma

what big teeth you have

and all the time before the eyes of the

horrified child

grandma was turning

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into

so

the grandma vaccine

you made it

oh yes for cross-injection

to implant the human cell memory in the

lupine dna and back again

oh i'm running ahead of you no you're

not

you'd have to have a human subject

well damn inspector

who

well who was the most available yourself

of course thank god well there are side

effects of course but

they have to be born

anyway it doesn't matter i'm expendable

i think perhaps you better show me

exactly what it is you do oh of course

why not why not

it's a

progressive course of injections one cc

two cc three cc we're up to 70 cc's now

into your own veins arteries

i'm a walking

incubation factor

okay it's quantum right

side effects

don't worry this stuff won't harm you

even if i did drop it

mr raymond

what happened

he's sick he's mad he's been

systematically poisoning himself no

he didn't say that i heard you

onto the couch

my guess is septicemia

acute blood poisoning you don't know

well i'm pretty sure you're not a doctor

well then get one he should be in

hospital no

look you need treatment it better be

soon

i told you side effects who is your

doctor i forbid her

no one's going to interfere

i'm sorry i showed you

i thought you perhaps you made some

limited attempt to understand obviously

you're incapable

mrs raymond come up here please please

come

it's completely insane this might kill

him he must be left

look i'm going to ring the hospital and

get an ambulance no it has to be done

i'll do it well right away i will i

promise now please go

he must know you've gone i have to make

a full report on all this you know that

no doctors

now

soon

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thank you

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on the cage

it was really adequate this time

good good

you think he's turned over a new leaf

more likely the gentle pressure of bob

curry's boot

yeah bye now

news of your cheater bobby got to the

airport in decent nick and went on his

way rejoicing our people saw him off

doesn't make jeb a goody well of course

not he's just to get you off his back oh

don't worry now how were the goats

emaciated there were 19 of them that

eaten their patch bear the owner he must

have lost interest

his neighbor's looking after them till

we find him did you read my report oh no

raymond i did yes i spent half the night

on it there it is under hair look oh yes

clear my desk a bit tied up with the

rope trying to get our confidence back

sarah

well

you think he's mad it must be i thought

he was nothing but talk but this god is

it

is there any action

ought to be i'm not sure what

those wretched wolves are past history

pity one of them didn't get him he was

equipped

we might try to put a case together and

charge you when he comes out of hospital

if he comes out

he's in a bad way

well perhaps that'll be the kind of

solution

chief inspector nash

who's that speaking

yes he's here

you want to talk to him

mr dougie jeb

hello

inspector curry

how are we mate

mr jeb if you're ringing to claim credit

for dispatching that cheetah probably

yes we do know about it we're glad

you've got the point hey wait a minute

nothing of the sort nothing to do with

that i'm trying to do you a favor

a favor what i said you're straight with

me squire so tit-for-tat

anything i get through the great burn

you're the first to hear

a pile of mine in the business has just

completed a small transaction

when was this

are you sure

yes thank you

yes yes i'll remember

well

the pet shop took delivery of another

wolf today

today

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i can't get any attention it's a

disgrace

are you a policeman uh no oh well

somebody should do something about it

i can't wait any longer

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why is he still there you promised me

he's not going to hospital look the

state he's in no he might be dying if he

is there's nothing to be done he must be

left alone it's what he wants cookies

past knowing he knows and they mustn't

interfere with him who people they've

been against him all his life

this is his time

that animal what about it is my business

where is it in the yard still in its

cage and you knew about it when i was

here yesterday it was all fixed up and

you said nothing

at least he couldn't touch this one

i'm going to have it removed no not yet

not till it's all over

mr kyle

i recognized your voice

as my friend i said the one who knows

about dna you should be in hospital if

you interfere you'll regret it all the

days of your life mr raymond there's a

wild animal out there yeah look i have

to see the cruelty man looking for

cruelty

but listen to it

that's a song

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oh

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mr raymond

i have to have that wolf removed

it's my duty do you hear that mr raymond

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i am most honored to appear before such

a distinguished gathering

i am most grateful to you for your

response

especially those who have differed with

me in the past

so donald

professor barbour's

most gracious

with those at the rear kindly come a

little near the front so that they may

see and

hear more clearly

that's right

thank you

i am about to provide you with a

rewardingly

rewardingly dramatic demonstration

of

in a few moments

a few moments

the culmination of a lifetime's work

the confusion

of all my critics

as in the

folk tale i enjoy telling my small

daughter

you gentlemen are now in the position of

little red riding hood as she opens the

door of her grandmother's cottage

grandma

what big eyes you have

and now

now it begins

the vindication

of my theory

the proof

gentlemen i ask you

to observe closely

my shape is beginning to change

my arms

are all thinking

now it is spreading to my head

and my shoulders

my mouth is assuming the shape typical

of cane's

lupus

now

now i had the

jaws standing

fangs painful

spreading through all the body

the internal

organs

transformation

almost

it's gone

what

he's dead

no no no no

miss raymond i'm very sorry he can't be

i did warn you

not just like anybody else

look it was the best thing for him

it's not over yet all right yes we feel

like that we can't help it it's a shock

i knew it would be

upsetting look please come and sit down

always knew this part

please come and sit down i'll fix you a

dream i've got to stay and watch

miss raymond your father is dead

he died of acute septicemia that he

brought on himself and that's all there

is to it

dead yes

what did you expect to happen

now

he must have written these today

wolf delivered excellent condition

a gravid female

injected it with 250 cc's

of serum prepared for my own blood

centrifuged

did you know about this

of course you did he couldn't possibly

manage it without you

a gravid female in cub

pregnant

he's probably poisoned at the cubs as

well

miss raymond i'm gonna have to put that

wolf down so i

never mind

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steady steady steady

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hello

mr agnew

yes the case of the day old chicks yes i

do know about it

yes i know the trucker spilt is load and

your chicks were wandering about all

over the motorway i do know

look we're not here to help you sue the

trucker

i know you lost a lot

listen

they had their moment of freedom and i

hope they enjoyed it better that than

the life in your broiler houses with the

beaks chopped off

and you too

agnew yes

old draymond's dead

they couldn't save him i

wouldn't go to hospital

i was with him when he

he gave a brief lecture to the british

association and kept it all by turning

into a wolf what then he died i think he

died happy

you mean he was delirious he was

completely off his head

do you know the last thing he did

really did god knows how he managed it

he shot a sample of his filthy

bloodstream into that young wolf

i had to put it down joe i thought that

was the only thing

you were probably right i don't know

save suffering no it wasn't just that

sarah how about some tea too thirsty man

in here no i've got to go but have you

got to yes i'm going to take the big van

and pick up the wolf's body

now can you manage yeah i've got to see

that doctor

try to get a certificate out of him

of natural causes

miss raymond

are you there

are you all right

yes

i did it

see everything that was his

he's in there dead

as cold as a dead mouse or a fish

and he's nothing more than that

you showed me

his work

rubbish

all of it

mad rubbish you believed in it

yes

am i mad too

was that it

both of us mad together all the time

no no no it wasn't

he made me believe in it

and you know how he did that

by despising me

florida you're a fool you're an idiot

you've got no brain

florence you're an idiot

and i thought because he could say those

things to me his only daughter that it

must be because he was a genius and he

couldn't bear my stupidity you see

i had to believe he was

he was a genius and i was put in the

world to serve him please take it easy

that's why i let him say those things to

me

i thought he had the rights

his work

as long as i could remember it was

honestly about his work

he'd show me a present and close and all

the time i struggle to follow and i

couldn't

and and i couldn't and in laugh at me

but i wasn't at all

the reason i couldn't understand was

that there was nothing to understand

i'm going to say right to his face

look at him there

he's just nothing

do you know what he did

he took all my life and used it up as if

he had a right to it

wasted it

like the little animals from the shop oh

you use them too you know he'd take them

and cut them up florence florence i need

two morettes quickly now that's raymond

i don't think you should stay here

florence he'd say to me you're a fool

but you've got your uses is there any

way you can go any relationship all i

was something to use please come away i

could have married you know there was a

man but he wouldn't let him get near so

that was that

oh i did my part i was faithful i

submitted

and you took it all

the way you took my childhood

all my childhood cut out of me and

thrown away

no friends in the house father can't

have noise father's working father's

thinking

no thoughts allowed in the behind the

house except father's thoughts no

stories even but father's stories

tell me a story go on

go on

when little red riding hood opened the

door of the cottage there in the bed was

grandma

hello little red riding hood

hello grandma

please get some of your things together

what big eyes you've got grandma

all the better to see you with my dear

what the ears you're growing now grandma

and what big teeth

what a big muzzle you've got now grandma

and what big fangs grandma what

what

it's true

i knew it

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just for a moment

it was true

so

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so

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you