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 54
Now see, my dears, this naughty child,Oh! does he not look fierce and wild?Well, this is just the very wayPaul went about from day to day. … But, oh! my children, see him here, His turn came soon to quake with fear. One summers day, with one accord, The creatures gave him his reward: The cat sprang up, and scratched his nose; The rats came out and gnawed his toes; The dogs flew at his legs and back; The geese came waddling—quack! quack!…
Children's stories, German
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