The next day he stopped at the little pig’s house and told him how frightened he had been by a great, shining thing that had rolled down the hill toward him.
Then Brownie laughed and laughed, and said to the wolf: “Ha! I frightened you, Mister Wolf. I had been to the fair and bought a copper kettle, and when I saw you coming I got into it and rolled down the hill.”
This made the wolf so very angry that he jumped up on to the roof of the little pig’s house and started to climb down the chimney.
When Brownie saw this he made a blazing fire in the fireplace and hung the copper kettle over it full of scalding water. And just as the wolf came down the chimney, the little pig pulled off the cover of the kettle and plop! Into the scalding water fell the wolf.
