There was a little girl. She lived with her mother in a hut near the forest.
One day the mother got some red cloth; she took her needle and she made a red coat for the little girl.
She put the coat on the little girl, and said, "I shall call you Little Red Coat." So the little girl was called "Little Red Coat" by her mother.
One day Little Red Coat said, "I want to show my red coat to Grandmother."
Grandmother lived in a hut. The way to the hut was through the forest.
The girl’s mother said, " You shall show Grandmother your red coat, and you shall take some eggs to her. You shall put on your little red coat and go through the forest to her house."
Then the girl’s mother put some eggs in a cloth, and gave them to the little girl, and said, "Take these eggs to Grandmother. You will go through the forest. Grandmother’s house is far from here. Do not wait on your way through the forest. If you wait, the night will come. At night there is a wolf in the forest; he eats little girls and boys."