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When the wolf had satisfied his appetite he took himself off,

laid himself down under a tree in the green meadow outside, and

began to sleep. Soon afterwards the old goat came home again from

the forest. Ah! what a sight she saw there! The house-door stood

wide open. The table, chairs, and benches were thrown down, the

washing-bowl lay broken to pieces, and the quilts and pillows

were pulled off the bed. She sought her children, but they were

nowhere to be found. She called them one after another by name,

but no one answered. At last, when she came to the youngest, a

soft voice cried: 'Dear mother, I am in the clock-case.' She took

the kid out, and it told her that the wolf had come and had eaten

all the others. Then you may imagine how she wept over her poor

children.