The Gingerbread Boy said;
“Molasses is used to sweeten, sweeten,
I was made to be eaten, eaten!”
The children nibbled away until only the Gingerbread Boy’s voice was left, but he sang gaily:
“To be happy and good I try,
Dear boys and girls, good bye, good bye.”
So he was all gone!
All this time the gingerbread cookies looked out of their large currant eyes, and Fairy Help-You-Out came into the kitchen and whispered into Polly’s ear and Peter’s ear and the baby’s ear something about a picnic.
The children clapped their hands with delight as three little baskets sailed down on the kitchen floor.
Each basket was full of good things to eat, and the baby’s basket had a bottle of milk in it, of course!