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The Gingerbread Man

American folk tale

The Gingerbread Man

A gingerbread man jumps out of the oven and runs away, singing that no one can catch him, until he meets a clever fox at the river.

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How the story begins

Chapter 1: Fresh from the Oven

Once upon a time, a little old woman and a little old man lived in a little house at the edge of a farm. They had no children, so one day the little old woman said, "I will bake a gingerbread boy." She mixed the dough, rolled it out and cut out a little man.

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Chapters in this story

  1. 1.Fresh from the Oven
  2. 2.You Can't Catch Me!
  3. 3.The Cow and the Horse
  4. 4.The Farmers in the Field
  5. 5.The Clever Fox

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