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Johnny-Cake
- Old man, old woman, and little boy.
- Little boy is told to watch the johnny-cake while the mom and dad work in the garden
- Johnny-cake came alive and jumped out of the oven while the boy wasn't paying attention.
- Outran the family
- The cake taunts two well-diggers into chasing him, basically
- Also outran two ditch-diggers.
- Then outruns a bear.
- Then a wolf.
- Fox outsmarts the cake by forcing him to come closer until the fox can eat him.
Bibliography
Johnny-Cake from English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
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