Once upon a time, near the edge of a thick forest, lived a little girl and her mother. One day the mother made a beautiful hood for the little girl out of a piece of lovely red silk, and the little girl wore the red hood wherever she went. She was soon known by everyone as "Little Red Riding Hood."

Little Red Riding Hood's gran'ma lived at a clearing in the center of the forest, all by herself. One time when Little Red Riding Hood's mother had baked some lovely cookies, Little Red Riding Hood asked her mother if she might take some to gran'ma. Mamma put the little red bonnet on the child's head and filled the basket with fresh cookies. Little Red Riding Hood skipped through the forest toward her grandmother's house. She stopped to gather a large bouquet of beautiful flowers for gran'ma. Many beautiful butterflies flitted across her path and Little Red Riding Hood ran after them. She did not try to catch them, though, for that would have ruined their lovely wings.