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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Little Gingerbread Man, by G. H. P.
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+Title: The Little Gingerbread Man
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+Author: G. H. P.
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+Illustrator: Robert Gaston Herbert
+
+Release Date: June 22, 2008 [EBook #25877]
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+Language: English
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+[Illustration]
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+
+     The Little
+     Gingerbread
+     Man
+
+     [Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration: Cook makes the Gingerbread Man]
+
+
+
+
+     The Little
+     Gingerbread
+     Man
+
+     by G.H.P.
+
+     [Illustration]
+
+
+     PICTURES & DECORATIONS by
+     Robert Gaston Herbert
+
+
+     G. P. Putnam's Sons
+     New York and London
+     The Knickerbocker Press
+
+
+
+
+     [Illustration]
+
+     COPYRIGHT, 1910
+
+     BY
+
+     G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
+
+
+     First Printing, October, 1910
+     Second    "     September, 1912
+     Third     "     July, 1915
+     Fourth    "     April, 1921
+     Fifth     "     July, 1923
+     Sixth     "     April, 1927
+
+     [Illustration: The Knickerbocker Press New York]
+
+     Made in the United States of America
+
+
+
+
+The Little Gingerbread Man
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: The Little Gingerbread Man]
+
+
+One day, the cook went into the kitchen to make some gingerbread.
+She took some flour and water, and treacle and ginger, and mixed
+them all well together, and she put in some more water to make it
+thin, and then some more flour to make it thick, and a little salt
+and some spice, and then she rolled it out into a beautiful,
+smooth, dark-yellow dough.
+
+Then she took the square tins and cut out some square cakes for the
+little boys, and with some round tins she cut out some round cakes
+for the little girls, and then she said, "I'm going to make a
+little gingerbread man for little Bobby." So she took a nice round
+lump of dough for his body, and a smaller lump for his head, which
+she pulled out a little for the neck. Two other lumps were stuck on
+beneath for the legs, and were pulled out into proper shape, with
+feet and toes all complete, and two still smaller pieces were made
+into arms, with dear little hands and fingers.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+But the nicest work was done on the head, for the top was frizzed
+up into a pretty sugary hat; on either side was made a dear little
+ear, and in front, after the nose had been carefully moulded, a
+beautiful mouth was made out of a big raisin, and two bright little
+eyes with burnt almonds and caraway seeds.
+
+Then the gingerbread man was finished ready for baking, and a very
+jolly little man he was. In fact, he looked so sly that the cook
+was afraid he was plotting some mischief, and when the batter was
+ready for the oven, she put in the square cakes and she put in the
+round cakes; and then she put in the little gingerbread man in a
+far back corner, where he couldn't get away in a hurry.
+
+[Illustration: Cook goes up to sweep the Parlor]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Then she went up to sweep the parlor, and she swept and she swept
+till the clock struck twelve, when she dropped her broom in a
+hurry, and exclaiming, "Lawks! the gingerbread will be all baked to
+a cinder," she ran down into the kitchen, and threw open the oven
+door. And the square cakes were all done, nice and hard and brown,
+and the round cakes were all done, nice and hard and brown, and the
+gingerbread man was all done too, nice and hard and brown; and he
+was standing up in his corner, with his little caraway-seed eyes
+sparkling, and his raisin mouth bubbling over with mischief, while
+he waited for the oven door to be opened. The instant the door was
+opened, with a hop, skip, and a jump, he went right over the square
+cakes and the round cakes, and over the cook's arm, and before she
+could say "Jack Robinson" he was running across the kitchen floor,
+as fast as his little legs would carry him, towards the back door,
+which was standing wide open, and through which he could see the
+garden path.
+
+[Illustration: The Gingerbread Man Escapes.]
+
+The old cook turned round as fast as she could, which wasn't very
+fast, for she was rather a heavy woman and she had been quite taken
+by surprise, and she saw lying right across the door-way, fast
+asleep in the sun, old Mouser, the cat.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Mouser, Mouser," she cried, "stop the gingerbread man! I want him
+for little Bobby." When the cook first called, Mouser thought it
+was only some one calling in her dreams, and simply rolled over
+lazily; and the cook called again, "Mouser, Mouser!" The old cat
+sprang up with a jump, but just as she turned round to ask the cook
+what all the noise was about, the little gingerbread man cleverly
+jumped under her tail, and in an instant was trotting down the
+garden walk. Mouser turned in a hurry and ran after, although she
+was still rather too sleepy to know what it was she was trying to
+catch, and after the cat came the cook, lumbering along rather
+heavily, but also making pretty good speed.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Now at the bottom of the walk, lying fast asleep in the sun against
+the warm stones of the garden wall, was Towser, the dog.
+
+And the cook called out: "Towser, Towser, stop the gingerbread man!
+I want him for little Bobby."
+
+And when Towser first heard her calling he thought it was some one
+speaking in his dreams, and he only turned over on his side, with
+another snore, and then the cook called again, "Towser, Towser,
+stop him, stop him!"
+
+Then the dog woke up in good earnest, and jumped up on his feet to
+see what it was that he should stop. But just as the dog jumped up,
+the little gingerbread man, who had been watching for the chance,
+quietly slipped between his legs, and climbed up on the top of the
+stone wall, so that Towser saw nothing but the cat running towards
+him down the walk, and behind the cat the cook, now quite out of
+breath.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+He thought at once that the cat must have stolen something, and
+that it was the cat the cook wanted him to stop. Now, if there was
+anything that Towser liked, it was going after the cat, and he
+jumped up the walk so fiercely that the poor cat did not have time
+to stop herself or to get out of his way, and they came together
+with a great fizzing, and barking, and meowing, and howling, and
+scratching, and biting, as if a couple of Catherine-wheels had gone
+off in the wrong way and had got mixed up with one another.
+
+[Illustration: Cook takes a tumble]
+
+But the old cook had been running so hard that she was not able to
+stop herself any better than the cat had done, and she fell right
+on top of the mixed up dog and cat, so that all three rolled over
+on the walk in a heap together.
+
+And the cat scratched whichever came nearest, whether it was a
+piece of the dog or of the cook, and the dog bit at whatever came
+nearest, whether it was a piece of the cat or of the cook, so that
+the poor cook was badly pummelled on both sides.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Meanwhile, the gingerbread man had climbed up on the garden wall,
+and stood on the top with his hands in his pockets, looking at the
+scrimmage, and laughing till the tears ran down from his little
+caraway-seed eyes and his raisin mouth was bubbling all over with
+fun.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+After a little while, the cat managed to pull herself out
+from under the cook and the dog, and a very cast-down and
+crumpled-up-looking cat she was. She had had enough of hunting
+gingerbread men, and she crept back to the kitchen to repair
+damages.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The dog, who was very cross because his face had been badly
+scratched, let go of the cook, and at last, catching sight of the
+gingerbread man, made a bolt for the garden wall. The cook picked
+herself up, and although her face was also badly scratched and her
+dress was torn, she was determined to see the end of the chase, and
+she followed after the dog, though this time more slowly.
+
+[Illustration: The Monkey catches the Gingerbread Man]
+
+When the gingerbread man saw the dog coming, he jumped down on the
+farther side of the wall, and began running across the field. Now
+in the middle of the field was a tree, and at the foot of the tree
+was lying Jocko, the monkey. He wasn't asleep--monkeys never
+are--and when he saw the little man running across the field and
+heard the cook calling, "Jocko, Jocko, stop the gingerbread man,"
+he at once gave one big jump. But he jumped so fast and so far that
+he went right over the gingerbread man, and as luck would have it,
+he came down on the back of Towser, the dog, who had just scrambled
+over the wall, and whom he had not before noticed. Towser was
+naturally taken by surprise, but he turned his head around and
+promptly bit off the end of the monkey's tail, and Jocko quickly
+jumped off again, chattering his indignation.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Meanwhile, the gingerbread man had got to the bottom of the tree,
+and was saying to himself: "Now, I know the dog can't climb a tree,
+and I don't believe the old cook can climb a tree; and as for the
+monkey I'm not sure, for I've never seen a monkey before, but I am
+going up."
+
+So he pulled himself up hand over hand until he had got to the
+topmost branch.
+
+But the monkey had jumped with one spring onto the lowest branch,
+and in an instant he also was at the top of the tree.
+
+The gingerbread man crawled out to the furthermost end of the
+branch, and hung by one hand, but the monkey swung himself under
+the branch, and stretching out his long arm, he pulled the
+gingerbread man in. Then he held him up and looked at him so
+hungrily that the little raisin mouth began to pucker down at the
+corners, and the caraway-seed eyes filled with tears.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+And then what do you think happened? Why, little Bobby himself came
+running up. He had been taking his noon-day nap upstairs, and in
+his dreams it seemed as if he kept hearing people call "Little
+Bobby, little Bobby!" until finally he jumped up with a start, and
+was so sure that some one was calling him that he ran down-stairs,
+without even waiting to put on his shoes.
+
+[Illustration: Bobby thought he heard someone calling.]
+
+As he came down, he could see through the window in the field
+beyond the garden the cook, and the dog, and the monkey, and could
+even hear the barking of Towser and the chattering of Jocko. He
+scampered down the walk, with his little bare feet pattering
+against the warm gravel, climbed over the wall, and in a few
+seconds arrived under the tree, just as Jocko was holding up the
+poor little gingerbread man.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Drop it, Jocko!" cried Bobby, and drop it Jocko did, for he always
+had to mind Bobby. He dropped it so straight that the gingerbread
+man fell right into Bobby's uplifted pinafore.
+
+Then Bobby held him up and looked at him, and the little raisin
+mouth puckered down lower than ever, and the tears ran right out of
+the caraway-seed eyes.
+
+But Bobby was too hungry to mind gingerbread tears, and he gave one
+big bite, and swallowed down both legs and a piece of the body.
+
+[Illustration: "1/3 gone"]
+
+"OH!" said the gingerbread man, "I'M ONE-THIRD GONE!"
+
+Bobby gave a second bite, and swallowed the rest of the body and
+the arms.
+
+[Illustration: "2/3 gone"]
+
+"OH!" said the gingerbread man, "I'M TWO-THIRDS GONE!"
+
+Bobby gave a third bite, and gulped down the head.
+
+"_Oh!_" said the gingerbread man, "_I'm all gone!_"
+
+And so he was--and that is the end of the story.
+
+[Illustration: The end of the story]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
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