Plish and Plum: classic

By Wilhelm Busch

And like frogs they dove, kechunk,Where the poor young dogs had sunk.Quickly each one with his handDrags a little dog to land."Plish, I'll call my dog," cried Paul;"Plum," said Peter, "mine I'll call."

• Language: English
• Publisher: idb
• Release date: Mar 12, 2018
• ISBN: 9783964841513

Wilhelm Busch

Wilhelm Busch (1832–1908) was a German humorist, poet, illustrator and painter. He contributed satirical sketches to German weekly papers and wrote short verse narratives accompanied by illustrations, which are now considered to be forerunners of the comic strip. Max and Morit, his most famous work, was published in 1865.

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 Plish and Plum

Original title: Plisch und Plum

Busch, Heinrich Christian Wilhelm     

Translator: Brooks, Charles Timothy  

ISBN 9783964841513 

Plish and Plum

PLISH AND PLUM.

CHAPTER I.

With a pipe between his lips,

Two young dogs upon his hips,

Jogs along old Caspar Sly;

How that man can smoke—oh my!

But although the pipe-bowl glows

Red and hot beneath his nose,

Yet his heart is icy-cold;

How can earth such wretches hold!

"Of what earthly use to me

Can such brutes, he mutters, be?

Do they earn their vittles? No!

'Tis high time I let 'em go.[Pg 4]

What you don't want, fling away!

Them's my sentiments, I say!"

O'er the pond he silent bends,

For to drown them he intends.

With their legs