All look so safe and quiet—Claude, you say?”
On a small picture Peter gazed and stood
In admiration—“’twas so dearly good.”
“For how much money think you, then, my Lad,
Is such a ‘dear good picture’ to be had?
’Tis a famed master’s work—a Gerard Dow,
At least the seller told the buyer so.” 440
“I tell the price!” quoth Peter—“I as soon
Could tell the price of pictures in the moon;
But I have heard, when the great race was done,