DOT POODLE DOG.
- Mine cracious, vot a gountry,
- Und vot a beoples too!
- I feel so bad, already,
- I don'd know vot to do.
- I had von leedle poodle dog,
- So handsome vot couldt been;
- Und alvays, vheresoe'er I vent,
- Dot poodle dog vas seen.
- He youst to vollow me aroundt,
- In schpite off rain und hail;
- Und, oh, der comfort vot I dook
- In der vag off dot dog's tail!
- Von day I missed mine Schneider,
- (Dot vas der poodle's name;)
- Und, though I vistled all aroundt,
- Dot poodle didn't came.
- I looked about der sausage-shops,
- (Vhere dey cut some vunny capers.)
- Und dold dot he vas schtrayed or stoldt
- In all der daily bapers.
- I hunted eferyvhere aroundt,—
- Oup hill, und down der dale:
- Und all der beoples lauft at me
- To hear dot poodle's tale.
- Von morning early I vas oudt,
- A valking oup der schtreet,
- Ven righdt avay I seen a sight
- Vot schtopped mine heart to beat.
- Mine cracious! vot you dink it vas
- Dot villed me mit surbrise?
- Tvas leedle Schneider vot vas losht,
- Righdt dhere pefore mine eyes!
- You know schust how id is myself
- Ven somedings stardt you, — aindt id?
- Vell, ven I saw dot poodle dog,
- Py shings! I almost vaulted!
- A darky had him on a pole,
- Mit pails off vater near.
- He used him vashing vindows off:
- Mine cracious, dot vas qveer!
- He dipped him righdt indo der pail,
- Schust like he vas a rag :
- Der life vas oudt off dot poodle dog;
- Der tail had losht its vag!
