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Do bake us a bun, old woman! If you scrape out the flour-box and sweep out the bin, you’ll have enough flour. I am trying. ) and swept out the bin, she made some dough s and she shaped a little round bun out of it. She baked the bun and put it on the window sill to cool. But the bun jumped out of the window and onto the bench outside, and from the bench onto the ground, and away it rolled along the road! On and on it rolled, and it met a Rabbit! I’m going to eat you up, Little Round Bun! Don’t do that, Fleet-Feet, let me sing you a song instead. All right, let’s hear it! Here it is! «I was scraped from the flour-box And swept from the bin And baked in the oven And cooled on the sill. I run away from Grandpa, I run away from Grandma, And I’ll run away from you, this minute I will!» And off it rolled and away! By and by it met a Wolf coming toward it. I’m going to eat you up, Little Round Bun! Don’t do that, Brother Wolf, let me sing you a song instead. All right, let’s hear it! Round Bun sings a song. And off it rolled and away! By and by it met a Bear coming toward it. I’m going to eat you up, Little Round Bun! Don’t do that, Brother Bear, I’ll sing you a song instead. All right, let’s hear it! Round Bun sings a song. And off it rolled and away! By and by it met a Fox coming toward it. I’m going to eat you up, Little Round Bun! Don’t do that, Sister Fox, I’ll sing you a song instead. 85
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