Let’s read together: The Story of Flying Robert by Heinrich Hoffmann

When the rain comes tumbling down
In the country or the town,
All good little girls and boys
Stay at home and mind their toys.
Robert thought, – “No, when it pours,
It is better out of doors.”
Rain it did, and in a minute
Bob was in it.
Here you see him, silly fellow,
Underneath his red umbrella.

What a wind! Oh! how it whistles
Through the trees and flow’rs and thistles.
It has caught his red umbrella;
Now look at him, silly fellow,
Up he flies
To the skies.
No one heard his screams and cries;
Through the clouds the rude wind bore him,
And his hat flew on before him.

Soon they got to such height,
They were nearly out of sight!
And the hat went Up so high,
That it almost touch’d the sky.
No one ever yet could tell
Where they stopp’d, or where they fell;
Only this one thing is plain,
Rob was never seen again!

To read The Story of Flying Robert in other languages

• German language version: Die Geschichte vom fliegenden Robert
• Italian language version: Storia di Roberto che vola
• English language version: The Story of Flying Robert

To read the other nursery rhymes from the book Struwwelpeter by Heinrich Hoffmann

• Foreword: to the children
• Struwwelpeter – Shock headed Peter
• The Story of Cruel Frederick
• The Dreadful Story of Pauline and the Matches
• The Story of the Inky Boys
• The Story of the Wild Huntsman
• The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb
• The Story of Augustus who not have any Soup
• The Story of Fidgety Philip
• The Story of Johnny Look-in-the-Air
• The Story of Flying Robert
• Anniversary page for the hundredth edition

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