The Wolf and the Babe

Name: Fantastic Fables - The Wolf and the Babe
Author: Ambrose Bierce

A FAMISHING Wolf, passing the door of a cottage in the forest, heard a Mother say to her babe:

"Be quiet, or I will throw you out of the window, and the wolves will get you."

So he waited all day below the window, growing more hungry all the time. But at night the Old Man, having returned from the village club, threw out both Mother and Child.

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Chicago: Ambrose Bierce, "The Wolf and the Babe," Fantastic Fables in Fantastic Fables (New York: The Century Co., 1899), Original Sources, accessed July 1, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=94L3Y9JK5EDGYD6.

MLA: Bierce, Ambrose. "The Wolf and the Babe." Fantastic Fables, in Fantastic Fables, New York, The Century Co., 1899, Original Sources. 1 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=94L3Y9JK5EDGYD6.

Harvard: Bierce, A, 'The Wolf and the Babe' in Fantastic Fables. cited in 1899, Fantastic Fables, The Century Co., New York. Original Sources, retrieved 1 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=94L3Y9JK5EDGYD6.