The Three Billy-Goats Gruff

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The Three Billy-Goats Gruff

by Sir George Webbe Dasent

Genre: Folktale
Setting: Fantasy
Format of Original Source: Short Story
Recommended Adaptation Length:

Candidate for Adaptation? Not Reviewed

EXCERPT:

Once on a time there were three Billy-goats, who were to go up to the hill-side to make themselves fat, and the name of all three was ‘Gruff’.

On the way up was a bridge over a burn they had to cross; and under the bridge lived a great ugly Troll, with eyes as big as saucers, and a nose as long as a poker.

So first of all came the youngest billy-goat Gruff to cross the bridge.

‘Trip, trap; trip, trap!’ went the bridge.

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