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     The Little
     Gingerbread
     Man

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[Illustration: Cook makes the Gingerbread Man]




     The Little
     Gingerbread
     Man

     by G.H.P.

     [Illustration]


     PICTURES & DECORATIONS by
     Robert Gaston Herbert


     G. P. Putnam's Sons
     New York and London
     The Knickerbocker Press




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     COPYRIGHT, 1910

     BY

     G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS


     First Printing, October, 1910
     Second    "     September, 1912
     Third     "     July, 1915
     Fourth    "     April, 1921
     Fifth     "     July, 1923
     Sixth     "     April, 1927

     [Illustration: The Knickerbocker Press New York]

     Made in the United States of America




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