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The Little gingerbread Man by George haven Putnam. 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
(00:21):
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
(00:42):
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
(01:04):
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. But the nicest work was
(01:29):
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 molded, a beautiful mouth was made out
of a big raisin and two bright little eyes with
(01:53):
burnt almonds and carraway 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,
(02:16):
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, cook
goes up to sweep the parlor. Then she went up
to sweep the parlor, and she swept, and she swept
(02:41):
till the clock struck twelve. When she dropped her broom
in a hurry, and exclaiming, locks 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
(03:04):
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
rays in mouth bubbling over with mischief, while he waited
(03:27):
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
(03:50):
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. The gingerbread man escapes.
The old cook turned round as fast as she could,
(04:12):
which was very fast, for she was rather a heavy woman,
and she had been quite taken by surprise. And she
saw lying right across the doorway, fast asleep in the sun,
old Mouser, the cat. Mouser, Mouser. She cried, stop the
(04:33):
gingerbread man. I want him for a little Bobby. When
the cook first called, mouser thought it was only someone
calling in her dreams, and simply rolled over lazily. And
the cook called again, mouser mouser, and the old cat
sprang up with the jump, but just as she turned
(04:56):
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
(05:17):
was trying to catch. And after the cat came the cook,
lumbering along rather heavily but also making pretty good speed.
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,
(05:43):
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 him again, Towser, Towser, stop him, stop him.
(06:10):
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
(06:31):
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,
Cook takes a tumble. He thought at once that the
cat must have stolen something, and that it was the cat.
(06:52):
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
(07:17):
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. But the old cook
had been running so hard that she was not able
to stop herself any better than the cat had done,
(07:38):
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
(07:58):
whatever came nearest, whether it was a piece of the
cat or of the cook, so that the poor cook
was badly pummeled on both sides. Meanwhile, the gingerbread man
had climbed up on the garden wall and stood on
the top with his hands in his pockets, looking at
(08:21):
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. 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
(08:45):
up looking cat she was. She had had enough of
hunting gingerbread men, and she crept back to the kitchen
to repair damages. 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
(09:08):
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. When the gingerbread man saw the
(09:30):
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 Jacko the monkey.
He wasn't a sleep, the monkeys never are. And when
(09:51):
he saw the little man running across the field and
heard the cook calling Jacko, Jacko, 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
(10:13):
came down on the back of Towser, the dog who
had just scrambled over the wall and whom he had
not noticed before. 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,
(10:37):
chattering his indignation. The monkey catches the gingerbread man. 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,
(11:00):
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
(11:24):
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
(11:44):
man in. Then he held him up and looked at
him so hungrily that the little rays in mouth began
to pucker down at the corners, and the carawayed seed
eyes filled with tears. And then what do you think happened? Why?
(12:06):
Little Bobby himself came running up. He had been taking
his noonday 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 someone was calling him that he ran
(12:30):
downstairs without even waiting to put on his shoes. 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
(12:51):
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
Jacko was holding up the poor little gingerbread man. Drop it, Jacko,
(13:16):
cried Bobby. And drop it, Jacko 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
(13:39):
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. Oh, said the gingerbread man,
(14:03):
I'm one third gone. Bobby gave a second bite and
swallowed the rest of the body and the arms. Oh,
said the gingerbread man. I'm two thirds gone. Bobby gave
a third bite and gulped down the head. Oh, said
(14:28):
the gingerbread Man, I'm all gone. And so he was.
And that is the end of the story, end of
the Little gingerbread Man.
The Little gingerbread Man by George haven Putnam. 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
(00:21):
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
(00:42):
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
(01:04):
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. But the nicest work was
(01:29):
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 molded, a beautiful mouth was made out
of a big raisin and two bright little eyes with
(01:53):
burnt almonds and carraway 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,
(02:16):
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, cook
goes up to sweep the parlor. Then she went up
to sweep the parlor, and she swept, and she swept
(02:41):
till the clock struck twelve. When she dropped her broom
in a hurry, and exclaiming, locks 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
(03:04):
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
rays in mouth bubbling over with mischief, while he waited
(03:27):
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
(03:50):
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. The gingerbread man escapes.
The old cook turned round as fast as she could,
(04:12):
which was very fast, for she was rather a heavy woman,
and she had been quite taken by surprise. And she
saw lying right across the doorway, fast asleep in the sun,
old Mouser, the cat. Mouser, Mouser. She cried, stop the
(04:33):
gingerbread man. I want him for a little Bobby. When
the cook first called, mouser thought it was only someone
calling in her dreams, and simply rolled over lazily. And
the cook called again, mouser mouser, and the old cat
sprang up with the jump, but just as she turned
(04:56):
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
(05:17):
was trying to catch. And after the cat came the cook,
lumbering along rather heavily but also making pretty good speed.
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,
(05:43):
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 him again, Towser, Towser, stop him, stop him.
(06:10):
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
(06:31):
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,
Cook takes a tumble. He thought at once that the
cat must have stolen something, and that it was the cat.
(06:52):
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
(07:17):
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. But the old cook
had been running so hard that she was not able
to stop herself any better than the cat had done,
(07:38):
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
(07:58):
whatever came nearest, whether it was a piece of the
cat or of the cook, so that the poor cook
was badly pummeled on both sides. Meanwhile, the gingerbread man
had climbed up on the garden wall and stood on
the top with his hands in his pockets, looking at
(08:21):
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. 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
(08:45):
up looking cat she was. She had had enough of
hunting gingerbread men, and she crept back to the kitchen
to repair damages. 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
(09:08):
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. When the gingerbread man saw the
(09:30):
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 Jacko the monkey.
He wasn't a sleep, the monkeys never are. And when
(09:51):
he saw the little man running across the field and
heard the cook calling Jacko, Jacko, 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
(10:13):
came down on the back of Towser, the dog who
had just scrambled over the wall and whom he had
not noticed before. 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,
(10:37):
chattering his indignation. The monkey catches the gingerbread man. 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,
(11:00):
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
(11:24):
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
(11:44):
man in. Then he held him up and looked at
him so hungrily that the little rays in mouth began
to pucker down at the corners, and the carawayed seed
eyes filled with tears. And then what do you think happened? Why?
(12:06):
Little Bobby himself came running up. He had been taking
his noonday 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 someone was calling him that he ran
(12:30):
downstairs without even waiting to put on his shoes. 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
(12:51):
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
Jacko was holding up the poor little gingerbread man. Drop it, Jacko,
(13:16):
cried Bobby. And drop it, Jacko 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
(13:39):
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. Oh, said the gingerbread man,
(14:03):
I'm one third gone. Bobby gave a second bite and
swallowed the rest of the body and the arms. Oh,
said the gingerbread man. I'm two thirds gone. Bobby gave
a third bite and gulped down the head. Oh, said
(14:28):
the gingerbread Man, I'm all gone. And so he was.
And that is the end of the story, end of
the Little gingerbread Man.
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