Illustration for a Russian tongue-twister about a woodsman running through a swamp with his dog
A family reflected in the surface of their samovar as an illustration
for a Russian children's poem
from Kaspar Schlich, in smoking togs,translation by George McCargar, from Daniil Kharm's free translation of a book by Wilhelm Busch
Holds beneath his arms two dogs.
"Well," he says, his left arm free,
And he throws them in the sea!
Illustration for the Daniil Kharms poem
The Happy Robins
I thought for a while, about how the tiger came to our street.by Daniil Kharms, translated from the Russian by George McCargar
I was thinking,
Thinking, thinking,
Thinking, thinking,
Thinking, thinking
At that time the wind was blowing,
And I forgot what I was thinking,
Thus it is I do not know, about how the tiger came to our street.
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