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 44
In sore amaze, the standers by Soon placed her on a barrow.But, oh! to hear her scream and cry Their inmost souls did harrow.See how her brother bursts in tears, When told the dreadful story;And see how carefully he bears The limb all wet and gory.Full many a week, screwed up in bed, She lingered… … O, why are you always so bitterly crying? You surely will make yourself blind.What reason on earth for such sobbing andsighing,I pray can you possibly find?Tis no real sorrow, tis nothing distressing,That makes you thus grieve and lament.All! no; you are even this moment possessing Whatever should…
Children's stories, German
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