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The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued
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A childless old woman bakes a gingerbread man who leaps from her oven and runs away. The woman and her husband give chase, but are unable to catch him. The gingerbread man then outruns several farm workers, farm men, and farm animals.
I've run away from a little old woman,
A little old man,
And I can run away from you, I can!
The Gingerbread Man halts in his flight at a riverbank, and after accepting a fox's offer to ferry him across, is asked by the fox to move ever forward toward the fox's mouth.
The Gingerbread Man taunts his pursuer with the famous line:
Run, run as fast as you can!
You can't catch me.
I'm the Gingerbread Man!