The Gingerbread Boy (1)

The gingerbread Boy (1)

Once upon a time, there was a little old woman and a little old man.

They lived by themselves in a little old house.

They had no little boys and no little girls.

One day, the little old woman said to the little old man, " I shall make a little boy of gingerbread. "

" I shall make his eyes from two fat currants.
I shall make his nose and mouth from bits of lemon-peel.
I shall make his coat from sugar. "

So the little old woman mixed the gingerbread.

She cut out the little boy's head, his body, his arms and his legs.
She patted them out flat on a baking tin.



Then the little old woman put two fat currants for his eyes.
She put bits of lemon-peel for his nose and his mouth.

She made his coat from shugar.

The little old woman put the gingerbread boy into the oven to bake.

" Oh ! " she cried.
" Now I shall have a little gingerbread boy of my own.

Then she went about her work.

Soon it was time for the little gingerbread boy to be baked.

As the ittle old woman went to the oven, she heard a tiny little voice.

It said, " Let me out ! Let me out ! "

Then the little old woman ran to open the oven door.
And she did so, out popped the little gingerbread boy.

The little gingerbread boy hopped and skipped across the kitchen floor.

He saw the door of the kitchen standing open and out he ran.

Down the street ran the little gingerbread boy.

After he ran the little old woman and the little old man.
"Stop ! Stop ! Little gingerbread boy! " they cried.



But the little gingerbread boy only looked back and cried.
" Run, run, as fast as you can,
You must can't catch me,
I'm the gingerbread man ! "

And they could not catch him.

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