Eduard Pistorius, German
“What Do You Say We Give Your Brother a Little Lesson in Physics? Onnnnne…Twooooo…,” 1839
Oil on canvas
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/// “I don’t have a pencil to draw
the guideline for cutting,” said Paw.
“I’ll keep place with a step.”
Then told Junior to schlep
the saw by the seesaw he saw.
/// Paw saw right away how he’d erred:
the obvious mishap occurred.
The boy lept off the beam,
the girl started to scream.
(When next ordered to help she demurred.)
The siblings loved to play a game they called “transporter.” Whenever the sister wanted him to sit on the wooden beam and lift her up into the air, she would call out to her brother, “Beam me up, Scotty!”