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 69
oor, and reckless smashed;And loud the soldier cries aghast:Ah me! Ah me! Im dying fast! Now in the Christmas fairies trip,And from the tree the apples strip,They take the horse and gingerbread,And all the playthings spoilt by Ned,And with the broken fragments makeA substance which they knead and… … PRYING WILL. Will so delights to peep and pry, That all about the house he goes,Upstairs and down, from low to high,— And everywhere he pokes his nose. Into the kitchen now he comes,Where, that same morn, with luscious plums,Made into jam, and still quite hot—The cook had filled a giant pot.
Children's stories, German
Internet Archive · UNC Libraries · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
![An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-stnicholasserial06dodg-890-752.webp)
