Look all around him, and enjoy the sight.
So far to walk was, in his mother’s view,
More than her darling Peter ought to do;
Peter indeed knew more, but he would hide
His better knowledge, for he wish’d to ride;
So had his father’s nag, a beast so small,
That if he fell, he had not far to fall. 200
His fond and anxious mother in his best
Her darling child for the occasion drest;
All in his coat of green she clothed her boy,