The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-21

, and rolls and watched them carefully until
! the big and little loaves we're all done to a
turn. The cakes and cookies came next,
and by the time that dawn arrived the
front shop was stocked with heaps Of the
warm, fresh smelling loaves and rolls, and
trays OF delicious cakes and buns hot from
the ovens.
Then the baker came back to his ginger
bread man, which he first placed gently
upon a great iron slab, n then slid into
the open door OF a perfectly heated oven.
! With great anxiety Monsieur watched the
oven. The dough was perfectly mixed, the
workmanship was most excellent. Would
the baking turn out to be as perfect as the
rest?
Much good dough may be spoiled in the
baking. None knew that better h Jules
Grogrande.
So he tended the over with nervous care
and finally, at exactly the right moment,
the baker threw open the v door and
drew out the sheet of iron upon which the
grand gingerbread man rested.
He was baked to perfection!
] Filled with pride and satisfaction, Mon.
! sieur bent admiringly over his great crea'
ton; and as he did so, the gingerbread man
moved, bent his back, sat up and looked
about him with his glass eyes, while a won
dering expression crept over his face.
Dear mel" said he, isn't il very warn
and close in this room?-
The Great Elixir had accomplished ia
purpose. The wonderful Essence Of Vital
ity, priced for centuries and closely guarded
had lent it's marvellous powers OF energy
and life to a gingerbread mani And all
through the stupidity OF a bakers wife who
was color blind and could not distinguish
a golden flask from a silver one!
NJ. Jules, who knew nothing OF the
Arabs TASKS or OF the Great Elixir, glareC
wildly into the glass eyes Of the ginger.
bread man. He was at first sure that hi
own eyes, and also his ears. had played hin
a trick.
John Dough, John Dough-" he cried
did you speak, Merciful heavens! Die
you speak, John Dough?-
Il did, said the gingerbread man, strug
Cling to rise from the slab. n l declare
that it is warm and close in this room'"
NJ. Jules gave a scream Of terror. Their
he turned and fed.
A moment later he staggered into tn,
shop, tossed his hand abov his head anC
fell in a heap upon the floor, being over
come by a fainting spell.
Madame, who had just come downstair
and opened the shop, gazed upon her hus
bands terrified actions with an amazemen
that prevented her from moving a limb o.
u~ttering a sound.
What in the world could have happened t.
Jules?
Then she received the greatest shock o
her life.
From out the door Of the Darkroom cam,
a gingerbread man, 80 fresh from the oveI
that the Odor Of hot gingerbread sur
rounded him like a cloud. he looked
neither to right or left, but picked mon
sieur's tall silk hat from OF a peg anC
placed it carelessly upon his own head
Next he caught up a large candy cane from
a show case. stepped over the prostrat'
body Of the baker and 30 left the shop
closing the front door behind him.
Madame saw him passing the windows
stepping along briskly md swinging tb,
zane in his left hand.
Then the good lady initiated her hus
bands example. She gave a shrill scream
threw up her hands and tumbled over YIN
conscious.