Max and MoritzA Juvenile History in Seven Tricksby Wilhelm Busch Third Trick
Was one Mr. Buck renowned.
Sunday coats, and week-day sackcoats,
And the road across it ran.
Took a saw, when no one saw them: Ritze-ratze ! riddle-diddle! Sawed a gap across the middle. When this feat was finished well, Suddenly was heard a yell:
Tailor, Tailor, muck! muck! muck!" Buck could bear all sorts of jeering, Jibes and jokes in silence hearing; But this insult roused such anger, Nature couldn't stand it longer.
With his yard-stick out he darted; For once more that frightful jeer, "Muck! muck! muck!" rang loud and clear.
Crash! beneath his weight it breaks.
In, headforemost, plumps poor Buck!
Down the brook two geese came paddling. On the legs of these two geese, With a death-clutch, Buck did seize;
Flutters out upon dry land.
Things exactly to his mind.
Dreadful belly-ache from the water.
Fully equal to the crisis; With a hot flat-iron, she Draws the cold out famously.
All through town: "Buck's up again!"
This was the bad boys' third trick, |
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