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Picture fables (1858)

Hey, Wilhelm, 1789-1854, Dalziel Brothers. egrs, Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William), 1832-1894, Speckter, Otto, 1807-1871, Dalziel, George, 1815-1902, Dalziel, Edward, 1817-1905 · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 19

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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… … BIKDS AT THE THEESHING-PLOOE. 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,…

Fables, German · Children's poetry

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