Impatience enfantine

Où l'impatience des enfants dans l'attente de leur revue adorée ne touche pas que les Suzette et n'a pas de frontières ...

Oh, dear ! the rumpus and the noise
The day that uncle came;
The chattering tongues of girls and boys
Spoke nothing but his name.

They all got up with anxious looks,
And never stopped for snores;
Upon the floor they threw their books,
Kept open all the doors [...]

Extrait de: What Uncle brought, Clifton Bingham, ill. E. Stuart-Hardy, dans Nister's Holiday Annual for 1904, éd. Ernest Nister, London