WHAT IS IT?
I soon saw that, after all, the food was not my sort, so I went off again directly, but not before one of the Yellow Things had plucked up courage to come back and actually threaten to attack me – me, . .
PETER PIPER’S PEEP SHOW or All the Fun of the Fair
Written by S. H. Hamer.
With Illustrations by Lewis Baumer and Harry B. Neilson.
Cassell And Company, Ltd.: London, Paris, New York & Melbourne. 1906.
Artwork by Robert Morley (1893)
Elephant's Picture Book 
Adorable ducklings even if the frog didn’t think so. The roots in the background are rather evil-looking.
The setting is very dark – it doesn’t look to be a good place for the little ones to wonder around, but you have to learn about the big bad world somehow!
Elephant
And, at least, they are sensibly in a little group; not venturing out alone.
It is very different style to your usual drawings. I like it, too!
What a dark piece of writing. The books title is a little unsettling too! Is the whole thing ass macabre/biaarre as this?