English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1890)
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- Man, woman, and son, Mom made a Johnny cake and told boy to watch the cake, while the others went to the garden to hoe potatoes
- Boy didn't watch the cake close enough, and the oven opened, and the cake rolled out the door
- Johnny cake out rolled the 3 family members
- Did the same to a well diggers and 2 ditch diggers
- Out rolled a bear and wolf as well
- Fox out smarted the Johnny cake by making him stop and speak louder to him
- Fox snatched up the Johnny cake
English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1890)
- Tommy grimes was a good and bad boy
- Mom warned him of Mr. Miacca, and one day when in street, he snatched him up
- Took Tommy home and told him how he will cook him with herbs, called out to wife Sally
- Tommy asked Sally if he always ate little boys, only when they are bad
- She likes pudding
- Convinced wife that he could run home for pudding for her too
- However, Tommy was bad again and snatched up by Mr. Miacca
- Told him he would not give them a trick again
- So he put him under the couch, and waited for the water to boil
- Took too long, so he chopped off a leg of the boy
- Leg that he chopped off was indeed his wife's leg
- Tommy ran home and said would never go around the corner again, until he was older
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