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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.

     [Illustration]


     PICTURES & DECORATIONS by
     Robert Gaston Herbert


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




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     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