"Listen, Spitz, I want to ask you something;
you should tell me secretly
where did you hide the beautiful bone
that no evil thief discovers him?"
"No, pugs, I'd rather keep quiet;
it's the thief who wants to know."
The pug searched and smelled
until behind the stable it found the bone.
It already has it in its snout,
then it got a bad wage;
Herr Spitz takes it so roughly by the collar
it ran away screaming and lamenting.
Wilhelm Hey
Published in
"Fünfzig Fabeln für Kinder"
(1920)
Aus dem Kinderbuch:
Was gehn den Spitz die Gänse an?
Alte liebe Kindergedichte.
(1997)
about the Autor
(Johann) Wilhelm Hey
Born on March 26, 1789 in Leina b. Gotha; died on May 19, 1854 in Ichtershausen.
The pastor's son attended high school in Gotha, after which he studied theology in Jena and Göttingen. After the exam in 1811 he worked as an assistant teacher in the Netherlands and in Gotha; In 1818 he became pastor in Töttelstedt, 1827 court chaplain in Gotha, 1832 superintendent and district supervisor of the schools in Ichtershausen.