Reading Notes: English Fairy Tales, Part B

English Fairy Tales

Johnny - Cake (This story is part of the English Fairy Tales (1) unit. Story source: English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1890).)

• Once upon a time, there was an old man, woman, and little boy. 
• One morning, the old woman made a Johnny-Cake and put it in the oven to bake and told the boy to watch the oven while they went to work in the garden
• The old man and woman went to hoe potatoes and left the boy
• All of a sudden, the boy heard a noise, looked up, and the oven door opened
• The Johnny-cake jumped out of oven and rolled towards the open door of the house
• The boy ran after the cake, but the cake made it out the door and into the road before the boy could catch him

( The man, woman, and child running after Johnny-cake. Source: Johnny-cake story blog)

• The woman and man heard this and ran after the cake with the boy
• The cake outran all of them
• They were so tired that they chad to rest on a bank
• Johnny cake kept running and ran into 2 well diggers who looked at the cake and asked him where he was going
• He told the men that he outran a woman, man and boy and said he could do the same to them
• They ran after him but couldn't catch up
• He ran into 2 ditch diggers and said the same thing
• He outran them too 
• He then ran into a bear who asked him where he was going
• he outran the bear
• He then ran into a fox
• The fox told the cake that he couldn't hear him and to come a little closer
• The cake got closer and yelled the same thing into the fox's ear
• He told him to move even closer so that he could hear him 
• He came closer and and screamed into his ear
• The fox ate the Johnny cake in the twinkling of an eye