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A popular European folk tale. A little old woman makes a boy out of gingerbread. When she opens the oven, the gingerbread man jumps out and runs away. Animals, farmers and schoolchildren join the chase. Finally a fox offers to carry the gingerbread man across a river. How kind of him - or is it?
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The gingerbread man climbed up on to the foxs nose, and the fox swam to the middle of the river. Suddenly he shook his head, and the gingerbread man flew up into the air. The fox opened his mouth and waited.

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