 Jacobs' johnny-cake rolls rather than runs, and the fox tricks him by pretending to be deaf and unable to hear his taunting verse.In "The Wee Bannock" from "More English Fairy Tales" (1894), Jacobs records a Scottish tale with a bannock as hero.The musical "The Gingerbread Man" (music by Alfred Baldwin Sloane, book and lyrics by Frederic G. Ranken) opened on Broadway on Christmas Day 1905, and ran for five months.