Once there was a Little Old Lady and a Little Old Man. They
baked gingerbread in the shape of a boy.
The gingerbread boy ran out the door and went into a barn
full of threshers.
He yelled “I’ve run
from a Little Old Woman, a Little Old Man, and you can’t catch me I’m a
gingerbread boy”. They tried to catch him but they couldn’t.
He ran into a field
full of mowers and boasted “I’ve run from a
Little Old Man, a Little Old Woman, a barn full of threshers,
and you can’t catch me I’m a gingerbread
boy.” They couldn’t catch him. either
He ran to a cow and pig and told them “I ran from a Little
Old Woman, a Little Old Man, a barn full of threshers, a field full of mowers,
and you can’t catch me I’m a gingerbread
boy.” They tried to catch him and they couldn’t.
Then he went to a fox and said “I have run from a Little Old
Woman, a Little Old Man, a barn full of threshers, a field full of mowers, a
cow and a pig and you can’t catch me I’m a gingerbread boy.” The fox caught him
and ate him till he was gone.
