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Slovenly Peter, or, Cheerful stories and funny pictures for good little folks : illustrations colored by hand after the original style (1919)

Hoffmann, Heinrich, 1809-1894 · Philadelphia : John C. Winston · leaf 17

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THE STORY OF THE WILD HUNTSMAN This is the Wild Huntsman that shoots the hares;With the grass-green coat he always wears:With game-bag, powder-horn and gun,Hes going out to have some fun.He finds it hard, without a pairOf spectacles, to shoot the hare:He put his spectacles upon his and said,^Now I… … THE STORY OF THE WILD HUNTSMAN The green man wakes, and sees her placeThe spectacles upon her face.She pointed the gun at the hunters heart,Who jumped up at once with a start.He cries, and screams, and runs away,Help me, good people, help! I pray.

Children's stories, German

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