Gemmerbroodman - 2 This is the second part of my translated gingerbread man story. Please see the picture for the original Afrikaans. "You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!" he sang in passing. And oink-oink, oink-oink, came the pig after him. Then the gingerbread man came to a river. A deep river full of water. And gingerbread men can't swim! What now? But then a jackal came out of the reeds by the river. "Ah, gingerbread man, I see you have a problem," he said. "You surely want to cross the river before grandma and grandpa Laloentjie and the cow and the horse and the pig eat you, of course?" "Yes, yes, please, can you take me over?" asked the breathless gingerbread man. The jackal blinked his eyes. "Sure," he said sweetly. "Just jump on my neck. I'll swim across with you." The gingerbread man jumped on the jackal's neck, and the jackal started to swim across the river just as the pig and the horse and the cow and grandma and grandpa Laloentjie arrived out of breath on the river bank. The gingerbread man began to sing again, "You can't caaaatch me...." when suddenly the jackal tilted his head back and threw the gingerbread man in the air. When he came down, the jackal just gave one huge bite... and the gingerbread man was gone! The jackal swam laughing across the river, and grandma and grandpa Laloentjie and the cow and the horse and the pig walked slowly and hungrily home...