Crossword-Solution: RIDINGHOOD 10 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

This woman he had never known; she had somehow devoured his little friend, as the wolf ate up Red Ridinghood.

Never in all my early childhood did anyone address to me the affecting preamble, 'Once upon a time!' I was told about missionaries, but never about pirates; I was familiar with hummingbirds, but I had never heard of fairies--Jack the Giant- Killer, Rumpelstiltskin and Robin Hood were not of my acquaintance; and though I understood about wolves, Little Red Ridinghood was a stranger even by name.

The experiment of a visit from the little girls was renewed, but without better success; for the last week had increased the horrors of his appearance; and Theodora reported that Johnnie had confided to her, as a shocking secret, that the reason why Helen could not bear to go near papa was, that he looked exactly like Red Ridinghood’s wolf.

You don’t think he goes about like Red Ridinghood’s wolf?” “No, I am not so silly now.” “Are you sure you know him? Did you often see him in your papa’s house?” “No, he was always in the laboratory, and I might not go there.” “Then you see, Rose, it must be mere fancy that you saw him, for you could not even know him by sight.” “It was not fancy,” said Rose, gentle and timid as ever, but still obviously injured at the tone of reproof.

And to my gaze the phantoms of the Past, The cherished fictions of my boyhood, rise: I see Red Ridinghood observe, aghast, The fixed expression of her grandam’s eyes; I hear the fiendish chattering and chuckling Which those misguided fowls raised at the Ugly Duckling.