“Who dares to touch my Sugar-Candy House?” roared the wolf again.
Then Jan replied:
“It’s the wind so mild,
It’s the wind so mild,
That lovable child!”
This satisfied the old wolf, and back he went to his house, grumbling.
The next day Jan and Jannette once again crossed over the little red bridge, and broke some more candy from the wolf’s house. Out came Garon again, bristling all over.
“Who is touching my Sugar-Candy House?” he roared.
And Jan and Jannette replied:
“It’s the wind so mild,
It’s the wind so mild,
That lovable child!”
“Very well,” said the wolf, and he went back again, but this time there was a gleam of suspicion in his eye.
The next day was stormy, and hardly had Jan and Jannette reached the Sugar-Candy House than the wolf came out, and surprised them in the very act of breaking a piece off his window-sill.