Max and Maurice

The bread in Widow Tibbets’s yard looks like a free breakfast—until her cock and three hens find themselves tangled in a trap laid by Max and Maurice.

In Wilhelm Busch’s 1865 comic tale, mischief comes bouncing along in rhyming couplets, one trick at a time. Max and Maurice turn a quiet village’s ordinary comforts into opportunities for trouble: a few slices of bread are all they need to start, and the widow’s poultry are only the beginning. Their pranks grow bolder as the neighbors become their targets, while the boys seem to find every mishap funnier than the last. Seven tricks are promised—but what will Max and Maurice think of next?

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