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Picture fables (1863)

Hey, Wilhelm, 1789-1854. [from old catalog], Dulcken, Henry William, 1832-1894, [from old catalog] tr, Speckter, Otto, 1807-1871, [from old catalog] illus, Dalziel, George, 1815-1902, [from old catalog] engr, Dalziel, Edward, 1817-1905, [from old catalog] engr · London, New York, Routledge, Warne, and Routledge · leaf 19

An illustration from Picture fables, 1863, leaf 19
SNOW MAN. Look at the man there ! Run, boys, quick !See how he grasps his great thick stick;Two whole days hes been standing so.Yet he never hath struck one blow.Snow Man, poor man, Id scorn to be,Holding a useless stick, like thee. Snow Man, poor man, we truly may say,Neither fighting nor running… … BIRDS AT THE THRESHING-FLOOR. Out in the fields no food found we,Snow covers all things equally ;Then heard we your blows upon the ground,And gladly came at the well-known sound;Many a grain oer the threshold flies,—Thats for us birds—and a welcome prize. The men they kept time, one, two—one,…

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