3-089-399 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Épicier citoyen, guerrier pur et sans tache..., 1841. ...Une fois caporal il porta la moustache; Rêva dans l'avenir la graine d'épinards. Et fut depuis ce temps, la terreur des moutards. (Citizen grocer, pure and spotless warrior...Once a corporal, he sported a moustache; dreamed of the future, the spinach seed. And from that time on, he was the terror of children. [In verse: There was an old corporal, retired, He opened his shop long desired, His beard was so hairy That the children got weary and his sales were not as aspired].)