"Hi! Won't you stop? Catch it! Stop, pancake!" they all screamed out,
one after another, and tried to catch it on the run and hold it. But the
pancake rolled on and on, and in a twinkling of an eye it was so far
ahead that they couldn't see it.

So when it had rolled awhile it met a man.

"Good-day, pancake," said the man.

"Good-day, Manny Panny!" said the pancake.

"Dear pancake," said the man, "don't roll so fast; stop a little and let
me eat you."

"No, no; I have run away from the mother, and the father, and seven
hungry children. I'll run away from you, Manny Panny," said the pancake,
and it rolled and rolled till it met a hen.

"Good-day, pancake," said the hen.

"The same to you, Henny Penny," said the pancake.

"Pancake, dear, don't roll so fast. Bide a bit and let me eat you up,"
said the hen.

"No, no; I have run away from the mother, and the father, and seven
hungry children, and Manny Panny. I'll run away from you, too, Henny
Penny," said the pancake, and it rolled on like a wheel down the road.