Excerpt from Pennsylvania German: A Collection Of Pennsylvania German Productions in Poetry And ProseA collection of Pennsylvania German poetry and prose, such as is offered in the following pages, will answer a two feld purpose. It will furnish material for the more careful study of the dialect and vindicate its character as a form of German speech, but beyond this it will afl'ord better than anything else an insight into the life and character of the Pennsylvania Germans, their simplicity, their humor, their ehre common sense, and their deep feeling and piety. Of course the productions used here are of unequal value, but the reader will find the variety itself useful, and he will have no difficulty in deciding what is jingle and what is poetry, what is written for the sake of the dialect and what is the work of genius clothed in the artless form of conventional speech. J. S. Stahr.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.