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H. P. + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Little Gingerbread Man + +Author: G. H. P. + +Illustrator: Robert Gaston Herbert + +Release Date: June 22, 2008 [EBook #25877] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LITTLE GINGERBREAD MAN *** + + + + +Produced by David Edwards, Suzan Flanagan, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive) + + + + + + +</pre> + +<hr /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/i001tn.jpg" width="450" height="574" alt="Cover" title="Cover" /> +</div> + +<hr /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/i002.jpg" width="450" height="420" alt="The Little Gingerbread Man" title="The Little Gingerbread Man" /> +</div> + +<hr /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/i003.jpg" width="450" height="176" alt="Dog chasing cat" title="Dog chasing cat" /> +</div> + +<hr /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 550px;"> +<img src="images/i004.jpg" width="550" height="166" alt="Boy chasing gingerbread man" title="Boy chasing gingerbread man" /> +</div> + +<hr /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/i005tn.jpg" width="450" height="591" alt="Cook makes the Gingerbread Man" title="Cook makes the Gingerbread Man" /> +</div> + +<hr /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/i006.jpg" width="450" height="565" alt="Title page" title="Title page" /> +</div> + +<hr /> +<table summary="copyright page"> +<tr><td valign="bottom"> +<div class="figleft" style="width: 150px;"> +<img src="images/i007.jpg" width="120" height="299" alt="Boy" title="Boy" /> +</div> +</td> +<td> +<p class="fm6"><span class="smcap">Copyright, 1910</span></p> + +<p class="fm6"><span class="smcap">by</span></p> + +<p class="fm7">G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS</p> + +<hr class="fm" /> +<table summary="printing dates" class="fm6"> +<tr><td>First</td><td align="center">Printing,</td><td>October, 1910</td></tr> +<tr><td>Second</td><td align="center">"</td><td>September, 1912</td></tr> +<tr><td>Third</td><td align="center">"</td><td>July, 1915</td></tr> +<tr><td>Fourth</td><td align="center">"</td><td>April, 1921</td></tr> +<tr><td>Fifth</td><td align="center">"</td><td>July, 1923</td></tr> +<tr><td>Sixth</td><td align="center">"</td><td>April, 1927</td></tr> +</table> + +<div class="pad"> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 121px;"> +<img src="images/i007a.gif" width="121" height="177" alt="The Knickerbocker Press New York" title="The Knickerbocker Press New York" /> +</div></div> + +<p class="fm6">Made in the United States of America</p> +</td></tr></table> + +<hr /> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/i008.jpg" width="450" height="386" alt="Half title page" title="Half title page" /> +</div> + +<hr /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[1]</a></span></p> + +<div class="padx"> +<div class="backleft" style="background-image: url(images/i009.gif); height: 445px;"> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:750px; height:325px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:125px; height:25px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:90px; height:25px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:85px; height:25px;"> </div> + +<p style="padding-bottom: 2em;"> +NE 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.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[2]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 150px;"> +<img src="images/i010.jpg" width="150" height="186" alt="Gingerbread man" title="Gingerbread man" /> +</div> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>Then the gingerbread man was finished<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;"> +<img src="images/i011.jpg" width="650" height="332" alt="Cook goes up to sweep the Parlor" title="Cook goes up to sweep the Parlor" /> +</div> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 150px;"> +<img src="images/i010.jpg" width="150" height="186" alt="Gingerbread man" title="Gingerbread man" /> +</div> + +<p>Then she went up to sweep the parlor, +and she swept and she swept till the clock +struck twelve, when she dropped her broom<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;"> +<img src="images/i012.jpg" width="650" height="303" alt="The Gingerbread Man Escapes." title="The Gingerbread Man Escapes." /> +</div> + +<p>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.</p> + +<table summary="text wrap container" width="675"><!--650 by 718--> +<tr><td> +<div class="backleft" style="background-image: url(images/i013.gif); height: 718px;"> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:300px; height:750px;"> </div> + +<p><br /><br /> +“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,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span> +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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span> +speed.</p> +</div> +</td></tr></table> + +<table summary="text wrap container" width="675"><!--650 by 763--> +<tr><td> +<div class="backright" style="background-image: url(images/i014.gif); height: 763px;"> +<div class="sandbag" style="width:300px; height:150px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag" style="width:325px; height:150px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag" style="width:355px; height:150px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag" style="width:385px; height:315px;"> </div> + +<p style="margin-left: 2em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /> +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.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 2em;">And the cook called out: +“Towser, Towser, stop the gingerbread +man! I want him for +little Bobby.”</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 2em;">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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span> +again, “Towser, Towser, stop him, stop +him!”</p> +</div> +</td></tr></table> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 250px;"> +<img src="images/i015.jpg" width="250" height="136" alt="Sleeping cat" title="Sleeping cat" /> +</div> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p><br /></p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"><img src="images/i016.jpg" width="450" height="622" alt="Cook +takes a tumble" title="Cook takes a tumble" /> +</div> + +<p>He thought at once that the cat must<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span> +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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 150px;"> +<img src="images/i017.jpg" width="150" height="203" alt="Cat and dog" title="Cat and dog" /> +</div> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<table summary="alignment container"><tr><td><!--450 by 459--> +<div class="backright" style="background-image: url(images/i018atn.gif); height: 465px;"> +<div class="sandbag" style="width:420px; height:30px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag" style="width:395px; height:50px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag" style="width:355px; height:50px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag" style="width:325px; height:50px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag" style="width:285px; height:50px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag" style="width:255px; height:75px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag" style="width:255px; height:100px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag" style="width:255px; height:125px;"> </div> + +<p style="margin-left: 1em;"><br /><br /><br /><br />Meanwhile, the <br />gingerbread man had +climbed up on the garden wall, and stood on +the top with his hands in his pockets, looking +at the scrimmage,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span> +and laughing +till the tears ran +down from his little +caraway-seed eyes +and his raisin mouth +was bubbling all over +with fun.</p> +</div></td></tr></table> + +<div class="backleft" style="background-image: url(images/i019atn.gif); height: 275px;"> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:220px; height:20px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:245px; height:20px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:265px; height:20px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:300px; height:20px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:355px; height:20px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:385px; height:20px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:415px; height:20px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:425px; height:20px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:435px; height:20px;"> </div> + +<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span> +she crept back to the kitchen to repair +damages.</p> +</div> + +<p>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.</p> + +<table summary="text wrap container" width="675"><!--650 by 773--> +<tr><td> +<div class="backleft" style="background-image: url(images/i020.gif); height: 773px;"> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:650px; height:195px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:190px; height:20px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:185px; height:20px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:190px; height:30px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:165px; height:20px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:155px; height:20px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:140px; height:20px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:135px; height:20px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:125px; height:20px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:120px; height:20px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:130px; height:20px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:140px; height:20px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:150px; height:20px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:160px; height:20px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:170px; height:20px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:185px; height:20px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:195px; height:20px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:215px; height:20px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:230px; height:20px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:250px; height:20px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:270px; height:20px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:290px; height:20px;"> </div> +<div class="sandbag-left" style="width:310px; height:20px;"> </div> + +<p><br /><br /> +When the gingerbread man saw<br /> + the dog +coming, he jumped down<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span> + on the farther +side of the wall, +and<br /> +began running across +the field. +Now in<br /> the middle of the field was a +tree, and at the <br />foot of the tree was lying +Jocko, the monkey. He <br />wasn’t asleep—monkeys +never are—and when he<br /> saw the +little man running across the field and heard<br /> +the cook calling, “Jocko, Jocko, +stop the gingerbread<br /> man,” he +at once gave one big jump. +But he jumped so<br /> +fast and so far that +he went right +over the gingerbread<br /> man, and as luck<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span> +would have it, he came down on the<br /> back +of Towser, the dog, who had just scrambled +over<br /> 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.</p> +</div> +</td></tr></table> + +<div class="padz"> +<div class="figright" style="width: 250px;"> +<img src="images/i015.jpg" width="250" height="136" alt="Cat" title="Cat" /> +</div></div> + +<p><br />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.”</p> + +<p>So he pulled himself up hand over hand +until he had got to the topmost branch.</p> + +<p>But the monkey had jumped with one +spring onto the lowest branch, and in an<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span> +instant he also was at the top of the tree.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 150px;"> +<img src="images/i010.jpg" width="150" height="186" alt="Gingerbread man" title="Gingerbread man" /> +</div> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"><img src="images/i021.jpg" width="450" height="542" alt="Bobby thought +he heard someone calling." title="Bobby thought he heard someone calling" /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span></p> + +<p>As he came down, he could see through<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;"> +<img src="images/i022.jpg" width="650" height="342" alt="In field" title="In field" /> +</div> + +<p>“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.</p> + +<p>Then Bobby held him up and looked at<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span> +him, and the little raisin mouth puckered +down lower than ever, and the tears ran right +out of the caraway-seed eyes.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 150px;"> +<img src="images/i023tn3.jpg" width="150" height="172" alt=""1/3 gone"" title=""1/3 gone"" /> +</div> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>“OH!” said the gingerbread man, +“I’M ONE-THIRD GONE!”</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 150px;"> +<img src="images/i024tn3.jpg" width="150" height="200" alt=""2/3 gone"" title=""2/3 gone"" /> +</div> + +<p>Bobby gave a second bite, and +swallowed the rest of the body and +the arms.</p> + + + +<p>“<span class="smcap">Oh!</span>” said the gingerbread +man, “<span class="smcap">I’m two-thirds gone!</span>”</p> + +<p>Bobby gave a third bite, and +gulped down the head.</p> + +<p>“<i>Oh!</i>” said the gingerbread +man, “<i>I’m all gone!</i>”</p> + +<p>And so he was—and that is +the end of the story.</p> + +<hr /> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/i025.jpg" width="450" height="533" alt="The end of the story" title="The end of the story" /> +</div> + +<hr /> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/i026.jpg" width="450" height="256" alt="Tossing rolling pin at cat" title="Tossing rolling pin at cat" /> +</div> + +<hr /> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 150px;"> +<img src="images/i007.jpg" width="120" height="299" alt="Boy" title="Boy" /> +</div> + +<hr /> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/i027.jpg" width="450" height="139" alt="Dog chasing boy" title="Dog chasing boy" /> +</div> +<hr /> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Little Gingerbread Man, by G. 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H. P. + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Little Gingerbread Man + +Author: G. H. P. + +Illustrator: Robert Gaston Herbert + +Release Date: June 22, 2008 [EBook #25877] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LITTLE GINGERBREAD MAN *** + + + + +Produced by David Edwards, Suzan Flanagan, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive) + + + + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + + 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] + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Little Gingerbread Man, by G. H. 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