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 64
he floor;His father gave him yesterdayThis pretty horse with which to play;See how he holds it! awkward clown,Its heels are up, its head is down.Oh! if it were alive, my dear, How terribly twould plunge and rear:And, I declare, Id just as soonGo up and ask the man in the moonTo please to play on… … This Hugo was a heedless child, In mischief everywhere;For him there was no prank too wild Or dangerous to dare. One day he saw a pile of wood,And up he climbed, so bold; The logs gave way while there he stood,And down, down, down he rolled. And once, when in a neighbors yard Our Hugo was at…
Children's stories, German
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