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 49
And springing quickly to the glass,What saw she there? alas! alas!Oh! what a sad, a deep disgrace!She found she had a yellow face. Ah, me! she cried, now, in despair,Where are my rosy cheeks—oh, where?Ho! screamed the parrot, nowyouseeThe punishment of jealousv! THE HISTORY OF THE DIRTY CHILD … The little girls whom here you seeWere sisters in one family;And both enjoyed an equal shareOf a kind mothers anxious care. The one in neatness took a pride,And oft the brush and comb applied;Oft washed her face, and oft her hands;See, now, thus occupied she stands. The other—oh! I grieve to sayHow…
Children's stories, German
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