“I haf von funny leedle poy
Vot comes schust to mine knee;
Der queerest schap, der createst rogue,
As ever you dit see.
He runs und schumps and schmashes dings
In all barts off der house:
But vot off dot? He vas mine son,
Mine leedle Yawcob Strauss.”

—  Charles Follen Adams

"Yawcob Strauss", in Yawcob Strauss, and Other Poems (1876), p. 11.

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