The Runaway Pancake (2.4 First Reading Level Four (Green))

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And it turned round, and whirl't out at the door. And after it they ran, and the tane flang at it a pot, and the t'other a pan; but baith missed it . And it ran, and it ran, till it came to twa well-washers. With an easy to understand and fun concept, comical theme and simple characters this interactive resource is the ideal way to engage children in imaginative stories and support a variety of EYFS learning outcomes.

the Yule Log: Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales (London: Sampson Sow, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1881), pp. 62-67. And they ran after't, to daud it wi' wat claes. But it ran, and it ran, till it came to twa barn-threshers.

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This tale is also contained in Paul Zaunert, Deutsche Märchen seit Grimm, vol. 1 (Jena: Eugen Diederichs Verlag, 1922), Celebrating Pancake Day Around the UK PowerPoint: to introduce Pancake Day and the different ways in which it is celebrated in the UK. A rabbit in a field saw the pancake rolling past. “How fast you roll!” he said. “ Can I catch you?”

Chambers' source: "From the manuscript of an elderly individual, who spent his early years in the parish of Symington, in Ayrshire. It was one of a great store of similar legends possessed by his grandmother, and which she related, upon occasion, for the gratification of himself and other youngsters, as she sat spinning by the fireside, with these youngsters clustered around her. This venerable person was bor n in the year 1704, and died in 1789." And as they were threepin', ane o' the bannas got up and ran awa', and they couldna catch't. And it ran and ran or it cam to a sheep, and the sheep wantit it, and it said to the sheep:

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What’s the hurry, Mr. Pancake?” he questioned. “Let me walk through the forest with you. It’s a unsafe place.” So he sat on his currabingo with his nose in the air, and the cake got up by his tail till it sat on his crupper. This is yet another version of the gingerbread man. This may have come first since the version I have it from like 1950, but the story is the same whichever came first. The pancake is made, runs away from the little old couple, and other various animals, only to get outsmarted by the fox. Gulp. And the fox nippit it a' awa' but a wee bit, and it fell into the burn, and that was the end o' the banna.