The Gingerbread Man.

Ngày:27/08/2016  
An old woman was baking one day, and she made some gingerbread. She had some dough left over, so she made the shape of a little man. She made eyes for him, a nose and a smiling mouth all of currants, and put currants down his front to look like buttons. Then she laid him on a baking tray and put him in the oven.

After a little while, she heard something rattling at the oven door. She opened it and to her surprise out jumped the little gingerbread man. She tried to catch him, but he slipped past her, calling as he ran, "Run, run, as fast as you can. You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!"

She chased after him into the garden where her husband was digging. He put down his spade and tried to catch him too, but the gingerbread man ran past him, calling "Run, run, as fast as you can. You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!"

He ran down the road with the old woman and the old man following. Soon he passed a cow. The cow called out, "Stop, gingerbread man! You look good enough to eat!" But the gingerbread man laughed and shouted over his shoulder, "I've run from an old woman. And an old man. Run, run as fast as you can. You can't catch me. I'm the gingerbread man!"

He ran on with the old woman and the old man and the cow following, and soon they all passed a horse. "Stop!" called the horse. "I'd like to eat you". But the gingerbread man called out. "I've run from an old woman. And an old man. And a cow! Run, run as fast as you can. You can't catch me. I'm the gingerbread man!"

He ran on, with the old woman and the old man and the cow and the horse following, and soon they passed some people making hay. "Stop!" they shouted. "You look good enough to eat". But the gingerbread man called out,

"I've run from an old woman. And from an old man. And a cow and a horse!

Run, run, as fast as you can. You can't catch me. I'm the gingerbread man!"

He ran across the fields with the old woman and the old man, the cow and the horse and the haymakers all following. Soon he met a fox and called out, "Run, run, as fast as you can. You can't catch me. I'm the gingerbread man!"

The sly fox thought to himself, "That gingerbread man looks good enough to eat", but he said nothing. He waited until the gingerbread man reached a wide deep swift-flowing river, with the old woman and the old man, the cow and the horse and the haymakers all chasing after him. Now the sly fox said, "Jump on my back, Gingerbread Man, and I'll take you across the river!"

The gingerbread man jumped on the fox's back and the fox began to swim. As they reached the middle of the river, where the water was deep, the fox said, "Stand on my head, Gingerbread Man, or you will get wet". So the gingerbread man stood on the fox's head. As the current flowed more swiftly, the fox said.

"Move onto my nose, Gingerbread Man, so that I can carry you more safely. I would not like you to drown".

The gingerbread man slid onto the fox's nose. But when they reached the hank on the far side of the river, the fox suddenly went SNAP! The gingerbread man disappeared into the fox's mouth and was never seen or heard of again.