The Gingerbread Man

1. The Gingerbread Man

2. An old woman was baking one day and she had some dough leftover, so she made a gingerbread man.

3. She made eyes for him, a nose and a smiling mouth all of currants, and placed more currants down his front to look like buttons. Then she laid him on a baking tray and put him into the oven to bake.

4. She took him out of the oven and he ran away yelling, “Run, run, as fast as you can, You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!"

5. The Gingerbread Man out ran the old woman, the old man, the cow, and the horse. The whole time he kept yelling, “Run, run as fast as you can, you can’t catch me I’m the gingerbread man.”

6. There is one person the Gingerbread couldn’t trick. He ended up getting tricked himself. The fox had a trick up his sleeve. He told the Gingerbread Man to hop on his back and he would help him get across the river.

7. As they reached the middle of the river, where the water was deep, the fox said,"Can you stand on my head, Gingerbread Man, or you will get wet." So the gingerbread man pulled himself up and stood on the fox's head.

8. The fox suddenly went snap! The gingerbread man disappeared into the fox's mouth, and the Gingerbread Man was never seen again.