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Title: The Little Gingerbread Man

Author: G. H. P.

Illustrator: Robert Gaston Herbert

Release Date: June 22, 2008 [EBook #25877]

Language: English

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The Little
Gingerbread
Man

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[Illustration: Cook makes the Gingerbread Man]

The Little
Gingerbread
Man

by G.H.P.

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PICTURES & DECORATIONS by
Robert Gaston Herbert

G. P. Putnam's Sons
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press

[Illustration]

COPYRIGHT, 1910

BY

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

First Printing, October, 1910
Second " September, 1912
Third " July, 1915
Fourth " April, 1921
Fifth " July, 1923
Sixth " April, 1927

[Illustration: The Knickerbocker Press New York]

Made in the United States of America

The Little Gingerbread Man

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[Illustration: The Little Gingerbread Man]

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 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
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
she pulled out a little for the neck