The Gingerbread Man

Once upon a time there was a little old lady and a little old man. One day the little old lady decided to make a gingerbread cake that looked like a boy. She made a jacket out of chocolate, and eyes out of two big currants. Then she put it in the oven to cook.
When she opened the oven door, out jumped a gingerbread man! Suddenly he jumped out of the window and ran away!
The little old lady and the little old man chased him, but he shouted:
“Run, run as fast as you can!
You can’t catch me,
I’m the gingerbread man.”
The little gingerbread man ran on and on.
A cow saw him and said, “You look nice, I want to eat you.”
But the gingerbread man said, “I have run away from a little old lady and a little old man and I can run away from you too.” And he shouted to the cow:
“Run, run as fast as you can!
You can’t catch me,
I’m the gingerbread man.”
The little gingerbread man saw a horse in a field.
“You look nice. I want to eat you,” said the horse.
“I have run away from a little old lady and a little old man and from a cow and I can run away from you too,” said the gingerbread man.
And he shouted to the horse:
“Run, run as fast as you can!
You can’t catch me,
I’m the gingerbread man.”
At last the gingerbread man saw a fox and shouted to him, “You can’t catch me.”
But the fox was clever.
“I don’t want to,” he said with a smile.
Soon the gingerbread man came to a river. He wanted to cross over but he couldn’t swim.
“Jump on my tail and I will take you across the river,” said the fox.
The fox started swimming across the river with the gingerbread man on his tail. “Jump on my back or you may fall off,” said the fox.
Then the fox said, “Jump on my head, or you may fall in the water.” And then he said, “Jump on my nose.”
When they got to the other side of the river the fox threw back his head. The gingerbread boy fell into his mouth and the fox gobbled him up. And that was the end of the gingerbread man!