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 CONTENTS. 
 
 HANS BBEITiMANN'S " BARTY " . 
 BREITMANN AND THE "TURNERS" . 
 
 BREITMANN IN BATTLE 
 
 BREITMANN IN MARYLAND .... 
 BREITMANN AS A "BUMMER" . . . . 
 
 SECOND PART 
 
 BREITMANN IN KANSAS 
 
 SHTORY APOUT SHIINITZERL'S PIIILOSOPEDE 
 BALLAD OF THE MERMAID .... 
 DIE SCH(ENE WITTWE — 
 
 I. VOT DKK YAXKKK THAP SUNG . . . . 
 H. HOW DKR BRKITMANX CUT HIM OUT 
 
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 Hans Breitmanns 'Barty.' 
 
 HANS BEEITMANN gif a barty ; 
 Doy hat biano-blayin', 
 I fell'd in luf mit a 'Mcrican frau, 
 Her name vas MacliUla Yane. 
 She hat haar ash prown ash a pretzel, 
 
 Her eyes vas himmel-plue, 
 Und ven dey lookot indo mine, 
 Dey shplit mine heart in doo. 
 
 Hans Breitman gif a barty, 
 
 I vent dero, you'll be pound ; 
 I valtz't mit Madilda Yane, 
 
 Und vent shpinnen' round t und roundt. 
 Der pootiest l^'raulein in der hause, 
 
 She vayed 'pout doo hoondred jjoundt, 
 Und efery dime she gif a shoomp 
 
 She make der vinders sound. 
 
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 Hans Broitmann gif a barty, 
 
 I dells you, it cosht him dear ; 
 Dey rolled in more ash sefen kecks 
 
 Of foost-rate lager peer. 
 Und venefer dey knocks der shpicket in 
 
 Der Deutschers gifs a cheer ; 
 1 dinks dat so vine a barty 
 
 Nefer cooni to a hot dis year. 
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 Hans Broitmann gif a barty ; 
 
 Dere all vash Souse undt Brouse. 
 Ven der soopcr corned in, de gompany 
 
 Did make demsolfs to house ; 
 Doy ate das Brot und Gensy-broost, 
 
 Der Bratwurst und Braton vine, 
 TJndt vash der Abendessen down 
 
 Mit vour parrels ov Neckarwcin. 
 
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 Hans Breitmann gif a bart}-; 
 
 Ve all cot troonk ash bigs. 
 J ))Oot mine mout' to a parrel of peer 
 
 Undt emptied it oop mit a schwigs; 
 Und den 1 giss'd Madilda.Yane 
 
 Und she schlog me ou ker kop, 
 Und dor gompany vighted mit daple-lecks 
 
 Dill der coonshtable mate oos shtop. 
 
 Jlans Breitmann gif a barfy — 
 
 V^hcrc ish clat bai ly now ? 
 Yhero ish der lufly coldcn gloud 
 
 Dat float on der moundain's ]>row? 
 Vhore ish de himmelstrahlende «tern — 
 
 Do shtar of do shpirit's light ? 
 Ail gon'd afa}' mit der lager-peer — 
 
 A fay in de ewigkeit ! 
 
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 Breitmann and the Turners.' 
 
 
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 HANS BREITMANN choine.l do Turners, 
 Nofember in do fall, 
 Und doy git"'t ii boostin' bonder 
 All in de Turner Hall. 
 J)erc cooined de whole ''lesan^'verein 
 Mit der Liederlich Apfel Chor, 
 Und dey blowed on de drooms und stroomed 
 on de fifes 
 Till dey couldn't refife no more. 
 
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 Jlans Breitmann ehoined de Turners, 
 
 De}' all set oop some shouts, 
 Doy took'd him into dair Turner Hall, 
 
 Und poots him droo a course of shprouts, 
 Doy poots him on de barell-hell j)ars 
 
 Und shtands him oop on his head, 
 I'nd dey ])Oonips de peer mit an enchine hose 
 
 In his mout' dill he's 'pout half tead ! 
 
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 Hans Breitmann ehoined de Turners; 
 
 Dey make shimnasti<^ dricks 
 lie stoot on de middle of de floor, 
 
 Und put oop a tifdy-six. 
 Und den de drovvs it to de roof, 
 
 Und schwig off a troadful trink : 
 Do veiglit coom toomple pack on his headt, 
 
 Und py shinks ! he didn't vink ! 
 
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 Hans Breitmann choined de Turners : — 
 
 Mein Gott ! how dey drinked und shvvore ! 
 Dero vas Schwabians und Tyrolers, 
 
 Und Bavarians by de score. 
 Some vellers cjoomed from de Kheinlaiid, 
 
 Und Frankfort-on-de-Main, 
 Boot doro vas only von Sharman dero, 
 
 Und he vas a Holstein Dane. 
 
 Hans Breitmann choined de Turners, 
 
 Mit a Limpurg' cliceso ho coom ; 
 Ven he oben de pox it sehmell so loiidt 
 
 It knock de musik doomb. 
 Von de Doutschors kit de vhivour, 
 
 It coorl de haar on deir head ; 
 Boot dero van dvvo Amerigans doro ; 
 
 Und, py tam ! it kilt dom dead ! 
 
 
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 Hans Breitmann choined do Turners ; 
 
 De ladies coomod in to see ; 
 Doy poot dem in de blace for de gals, 
 
 All in dor gal-iorio. 
 Dey ashk : ' Vhere ish dor Breitniaini ?' 
 
 Und dey dreniple mit awe und four 
 Vhen dey see him schvvingen' py dt' toes, 
 
 A-trinkin' lager-i^eor. 
 
 Hans Breitmann choined de Turners : — 
 
 I dells you vot, py tam 1 
 Dey sings de great Urbummel-lied : 
 
 De hoiy Sharman psalm. 
 Und vhen &Qy kits to de gorus 
 
 You ought to iicar dem dramp ! 
 It scared der Teufel down below 
 
 To hear dem Dootchmen schtamj). 
 
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 Hans Breitmann choined de Turners : — 
 
 By Donner ! it vas crandt, 
 Yen de whole of dem goes a-valkin' 
 
 Und dancin' on deir hand, 
 Mit de veet all vavln' in de air, 
 
 Gottstausend ! votadrieks! 
 Dill der Breitmann^vall und dey all co town 
 
 Shoost like a row of bricks. 
 
 Hans Breitmann choined de Turners : — 
 
 Dey lay dere in a heap, 
 Und slept dill de earlj- sonnen-shine 
 
 Come in at de vindow creep; 
 Und de preeze it vake them from deir tream, 
 
 Und dey go to kit deir veed : 
 Here hat dis song an Ende — 
 
 Das ist Das Breitmannslied. 
 
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 Breitmann in Battle. 
 
 ' Tunc tapfre Ausfuhrere Stfeitum et rittris dignum 
 potuere erjagere lohum.^ 
 
 DER FADER UNDT DER SON. 
 
 I DINKS I'll CO a-vightin' — outshpoke der Breite 
 mann, 
 ' It's eighdeen hoonderd fordy-eight since I kits 
 swordt in handt; 
 Dese fourdeen years mit Hecker all roostin' I hat' 
 
 been, 
 Boot now I kicks der Teufel oop and goes for sailin* 
 in. 
 
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 ' If you go land out-ridin',' said Caspar Pickle-tongue, 
 ' Foost ding you knows you coomsagross some repels 
 
 prave und young, 
 Avay town Sout' in Tixey, dey'U schplit you like a 
 
 clam' — 
 ' For dat,' spoke out der Breitmann, < I doos not garc 
 
 one tarn ! 
 
 ' Who der Teufel ])e's de repels, undt vhere dey kits 
 
 dair sass, 
 If dey make a roon on Breitmann he'll soon let out 
 
 der gas ; 
 I'll shplit dem like kartotfells : I'll shlog em on de 
 
 kop; 
 I'll set de plackguarts roonin' so dey von't know 
 
 vheres to shtop.' 
 
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 Und den outshpoke dor Breitmann, mit his schlaeger 
 
 py his side : 
 ' Forvarts, my pully landsmen ! it's dime to roon iindt 
 
 ride ; 
 Vill ridin', vill vightin'— der Copitain I'll pe, 
 It's sporn undt horn undt saddle now— all in der 
 
 Cavallrio !' 
 
 Und ash dey rode droo Vinehesder, so herrlich to po 
 
 seen 
 
 Dere coom't some repel cavallrie a-ridin' on der 
 
 creen ; 
 Mit a sassy repel Dootchman— ein colonel in gom- 
 
 mand : 
 Says he, ' Vot Toufel makes you here in dis mein 
 
 Faaderland ? 
 
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 ' You're dressed oop like a shentlemann mit your 
 
 plackguart Yankee grew, 
 You mudsills und meganics ! Der Teufel put you 
 
 droo ! 
 Old Yank, you ought to shtay at home und dake your 
 
 liddle horn, 
 Mit some oldt voomans for a noorse ' — der Breitmann 
 
 laugh mit shkorn. 
 
 * Und should I trink mein lager-peer und roost mine 
 
 self to home ? 
 I'fe got too many dings like you to mash beneat' my 
 
 thoom : 
 In many a fray und vierce foray dis Dootchman will 
 
 be feared 
 Pefore he stops dis vightin' trade — 'twas dere ho 
 
 grayed his peard.' 
 
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 * I pools dat peard out by de roots — I gifs him 6ooch 
 
 a dwist 
 Dill all de plood roons out, you taran'd old Apoli- 
 
 tionist I 
 Your creenpacks mit your swordt und vatch right 
 
 ofer you moost shell, 
 Und den you goes to Libby shtraight — und after 
 
 dat to h— 11 !' 
 
 * Mein creenpacks und moin schlaeger, I kits 'em in 
 
 New York, 
 To gif dem up to croenhorns, young man, is not do 
 
 talk ;' 
 De heroes shtopped deir sassin' here und gross't deir 
 
 sabres dwice't, 
 Und de vay dese Deutschers vent to vork vos von pig 
 
 ding on ice. 
 
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 Der younker fetch der oldter sooch a gottallmachty 
 
 schmack 
 Der Breitmann dinks he really hears his skool go 
 
 shplit und crack ; 
 Der repel shoomps dwelf paces pack, und so he safe 
 
 his life : 
 Der Breitmann says : ' I guess dem shoomps you 
 
 learns dem of your vife.' 
 
 ' If I should learn of vomans I dinks it vere a shame, 
 Bei Cott I am a shendlemann, aristograt, und game. 
 My fader vos anodcr — I lose him fery young — 
 Der Teufel take your soul ! Coom on ! I'll shplit your 
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 A Yankee drick dor Breitmann dried— dat oldt gray- 
 pearded man — 
 
 For ash do roiDoI raised his swordt, bencat' dat swordt 
 he ran. 
 
 All roundt dor shJim yoong repol'svaist his armsoJdt 
 
 Breitmann pound, 
 Und Hchlinged him down oopon his pack und laidt 
 
 him on der ground. 
 
 'Wlio rubs against olt kittle-pots may keep vite— if 
 ho can, 
 
 Say, vot you dinks of vightin' now, mit dis old shcn- 
 dlemann ? 
 
 Your dime is oop ; you got to die, und I your briest 
 
 vill pe ; 
 Peliev'st dou in Moral Ideas ? If so, I lets you free.' 
 
 ' I don't know nix apout ideas— no more dan 'pout 
 
 Saint Paul, 
 Since I'fe peen down in Tixey I kits no books at all ; 
 I'm greener ash de clofer-grass ; I'm shtupid ash a 
 
 shpoon ; 
 I'm ignoranter ash de nigs— for dey takes de 
 
 Tribune.'' 
 
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 'Mein fader's name vas Breitmann, I heard mein 
 mutter say, 
 
 She read de bapgrs dat he died after she rooned 
 afay ; 
 
 Dqj say he leaft some broperty—berhaps 'tvas all a 
 sell— 
 
 If I could lay mein hands on it I likes it mijrhtv 
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 ' Und vas dy fader Breitmann ? Bist du his kit' und 
 
 kin? 
 Denn know dat ich dor Breitmann dein liober Vater 
 
 bin ?' 
 Der Briotmann poolled his hand-shoo off und shookt 
 
 him py de handt ; 
 ' Ve'll haf some trinks on strengt' of dis — or else may 
 
 I pe tamn'd !' 
 
 ' Oh ! fader, how I shlog your kop,' der younger 
 
 Breitmann said ; 
 * I'd den dimes sooner had it coom right down on 
 
 mine own headt ! 
 ' Oh, never mind — dat soon dry oop — I shticks him 
 
 mit a blaster; 
 If I had shplit you like a fish, dat vere an vorse tis- 
 
 assder.' 
 
 
 Dis fight did last all afternoon — wohl to de fespor- 
 
 tido, 
 Und droo de streets of Yinchesder, der Breitmann 
 
 he did ride. 
 Vot vears der Breitmann on his hat ? * Do ploom 
 
 of fictory ! 
 Who's dat a-ridin' py his side? 'Dis here's niein 
 
 son,' says he. 
 
 How stately rode der Breitmann" oop ! — how lordly 
 
 he kit down ! 
 How glorious from de great pokal he trink de peer so 
 
 prown ! 
 But der Yunger bick der parrel oop und schwig him 
 
 all at one. 
 'Bei Gott ! d!af settles all dis dings — I know dou art 
 
 mcin son !' 
 
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 I>or one ha« cot u iadcr ; do oder foundt a schild 
 
 It makes ,so glad our hearts to hear dat dey did so 
 
 succeed — ^ 
 
 Und damit hat nein 7<].ule m:s jun.jex Breitmann's 
 
 LIED. 
 
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 DER Breitmann mit his gompany, 
 Rode out in Marylandt. 
 'Dere's nix to trink in dis countrie ; 
 Mine droat's as dry as sand. 
 It's light canteen und haversack, 
 It's hoonger mixed mic doorst ; 
 Und if ve had some lager-peer 
 I'd trink oontil I boorst. 
 
 Gling, glang, gloria ! 
 Ve'd trink oontil ve boorst. 
 
 Herr Leutd'nant, take a dozen men, 
 
 Und ride dis landt around ! 
 Herr Feldwebel, go foragin' 
 
 Dill somedings goot ish found. 
 Gotts-donder ! men, go ploonder ! 
 
 Ye hafn't trinkod a pit 
 Dis fourdeen hours ! If I had peer 
 
 I'd sauf ooutil I shplit ! t 
 
 Gling, glang, gloria ! 
 
 Ve'd sauf oontil ve shplit ! 
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 Ad mitternacht a horso's hoofs 
 
 Goom raddlin' droo do gamp; 
 Rouse dere! — eoom rouHo dcr house dere ! 
 
 HeiT Copitain — vo moowt tromp ! 
 Der seoudn haf fbundt a repel town, 
 
 Mit repel davern near, 
 A repel keller in de cround, 
 
 Mit repel la^or-peer! 
 Gling, glang, gloria ! 
 
 All fool of lager-peer I 
 
 Gottsdonnerkreuzschockschwerenoth ! 
 
 How Breitmann broked de bush ! 
 O let mo see da!k lager-peer ! 
 
 O let me at him rush ! 
 Und is mein zabre sharp und true, 
 
 Und is mein var-horse goot? 
 To get one quart of lager-peer 
 
 I'd shpill a sea of ploot. 
 Gling, glang, gloria ! 
 
 I'd shpill a sea of ploot. 
 
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 Funf hoonderd repels hold de down. 
 
 One hoonderd strong are ve ; 
 Who gares a tam for all de odds 
 
 Vhen men so dirsty pe? 
 Und in dey smashed und down dey crashed, 
 
 Like donder-polts dey fly. 
 Rush fort as der vild yager cooms 
 
 Mit blitzen droo de shky. 
 Gling, glang, gloria ! 
 
 Like blitzen droo de shkj-. 
 
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 How flowed to rito, how flowed to loft, 
 
 Do moundains, droos, iind hod^e I 
 How loft und rito do ya^or-corps 
 
 Vent dondorin' droo do pridgo ! 
 Und splash und 8j)losh doy ford do shtrenm 
 
 Voro not some pridgcs po : 
 All dripplin' in do niootullight peam 
 
 Stracks vent do cavallrio. 
 Gling, glang, gloria ! 
 
 Dor Broitmann'a cavallrio. 
 
 Und hoory, hoory, on doy roto, 
 
 Oonhoodin' vot or try; 
 Und horse und ridor shnort und blowod, 
 
 Und shparklin' bopplos fly. 
 Eojjp ! EoppI I shmoll do parloy-prew I 
 
 Do re's somodings goot ish near. 
 Ropp ! Ropp ! — I scent do knoiperoi ; 
 
 Ve've cot to lagor-peer ! 
 Gling, glang, gloria ! 
 
 Ve'vo cot to lagor-peor ! 
 
 Hei ! how de carpine pullets klinged 
 
 Oopon de helmets hart ! 
 Oh, Breitmann — how dy zabre ringed; 
 
 Du alter Knastorbart ! 
 De contrapands doy sing for choy 
 
 To see der robs co town, 
 Und hear dor Breitmann crimly gry : 
 
 Hoorah ! — ve've dook de down. 
 Gling, glang, gloria I 
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 De Dootch have dook de down. 
 
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 Mkl whout uiid crush und zal»ro vnsh, 
 
 Und vild husnron shout 
 Do Dootchinon boorHt do kellcr in, 
 
 Und roUt <ler hii^or out ; 
 And in do coorlin' powdor shnioko, 
 
 Vile shtill der puUots sun^, 
 Dere wiitood dor Broitiaunn, Jixo in luindt, 
 
 A-knockin' out dor boong. 
 Gling, ghm^, gloi-iu ! 
 Victoria! Kncoria! 
 
 Do shpickot bcutrt do boong. 
 
 Gotts! vot a HJiproo dor Breitnuinn had 
 
 Vliilo yot his iiaiid was rod, 
 A-(rinkin' lagor I'roni his j)ools 
 
 Among do ropcl toatl. 
 'Tvas duH doy vont at mittornight 
 
 Along der moundain side ; 
 'Tvas dus doy holj) ' make history !' 
 Di« vas dor Briotmann's ride. 
 Gling, glang, gloria ! 
 Victoria ! Victoria ! 
 Cer'visia, encoria ? 
 Do treadful midtnight ride 
 Of Breitmann's vildt Froischarlingor, 
 All vamous, proad, und vide. 
 
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 Breitmann as a "Bummer." 
 
 DER Sheneral Sherman holts oop on his coorse, 
 He shtops ad de gross-road und reins in his 
 horse. 
 ' Dere's a ford on der rifer dis day ve moost dake, 
 Or elshe de grand army in bieces shall preak !' 
 
 Yen shoost ash dis vord vrom his lips hat cone bast, 
 Dere coom't a young orterly gallopin' vast^ 
 
 Wiio gry mit amazement : * Here, Shen'ral ! Goot 
 Lord ! 
 Dat Bummer, der Breitmann, ish holcUti' der ford !' 
 
 Der Shen'ral he ootered no hymn und no psalm, 
 Bout opened his lips und he priefly say, ' D n ! 
 
 Dere moost hafe been viskey on dat side der rifer; 
 To get it dose shaps vould sot hell in a shiver ; 
 
 But now dat dey holdt it, ride quick to deir aid : 
 
 Ho, Sickles! moof promp'lj', sendt town a prigate ! 
 Dat Dootchman moost vork mighty hardt mit ish 
 sword 
 If againsd a whole army he holdt to do ford.' 
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 Bey spoored on, dey hoory'd on, gallopin' shtraight, 
 But vor Breitmann help coomed shoost a liddle too 
 late, 
 
 Vor as de Lauwine goes smash mit her pound. 
 So on to de Bummers de repels coom down : 
 
 Heinrich von Schinkenstein's tead in de road, 
 
 Dieterich Hinkelbein's flat as a toad ; 
 Und Sepperl — Tyroler — shpoke nefer a vordt, 
 
 But shoost 'Mutter Gottes T und died in de ford. 
 
 Itsch'l, of Innspruck, ish drilled droo de hair, 
 Einer aus Boeblingen — he, doo, vash dere — 
 
 Karl, of Karlsruh, is shot near do fence, 
 
 (His horse vash o'erloadet mit toorkies und hens.) 
 
 Und dough he like a ravin' mad cannibal vought, 
 Yet der Breitmann — der capt'n — dor hero — vash 
 ganght ; 
 
 Und de last dings vo saw, he vas died mit a gord, 
 Yor de repels hat gojipled him oop at de vord. 
 
 Dey sh tripped off his t'oat und skj^ugled his poots, 
 Dey dressed him mit rags of a repel recruits; 
 
 But von gray-haared oldt vellcr shmilcd crimly und 
 bet 
 Dat Breitmann vouldt pe a pad egg for dcm yet. 
 
 * He has more on ish pipe ash dem vellers allows ; 
 
 He has cardts yet in hand und das Spiel ist nicht am, 
 Doy'U find dat dey dook in der Teufel to pourd, 
 
 De day dey pooled Breitmann veil ofer de ford. 
 
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 In de Bowery each bier-haus mit ci-ape vas oopdone, 
 Vhen dey read in de babers dat Breitraann vas cone ; 
 
 Und der Dootch all cot troonk oopon lager und wein ; 
 At de great Trauer-fest of de Turner- Verein. 
 
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 Dere vas wein-en mit weinen vcn beoplesh did dink 
 Dat Sherman's great Sharman eood nefer more trink. 
 
 Und in VilHam Shtreet veepin' und vailen' vas hoor'd, 
 Pecause dor Hans Breitmanii vas lost at de ford. 
 
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 In dulcejuhilo now ve all sings, 
 
 A-vaifin do panners like efoiy dings, 
 De preezo droo de bino-trocs is cooler und salt, 
 
 Und der Shen'ral is meny vcnefer vc halt ; 
 Loosty und meny he schmells at do preezo, 
 
 Lustig und heiter he looks droo de drees, 
 Lustig und heiter ash veil ho may pe, 
 
 For Sherman, at last, has march't down to de sea ! 
 
 Dore's a gry from de guard — dere's a clotter und 
 dramp, 
 Yen dat fery same orterly rides droo de camp. 
 Who report on de ford. Dere ish druples und awe 
 
 In de face of de youf, apout somedlngs ho saw ; 
 Und he shpeak me in Fraontsch, like he always do : 
 ' Look ! 
 Sagre pleu ! fentre-Tieu — dor ish Breitmann — his 
 spook ! 
 Ho ish goming dis vay ! Nbm de gave ! can it pe 
 Dat do spooks of de toad men coom down to de sea !' 
 
 Und ve looks, und ve sees, und ve tremples mit tread, 
 
 For risin' all schwart on de efenin' red 
 Vus Johannes — der Broitmann — dor war es, bei Gott ! 
 
 Coom ridin' to oos-vard, right shtraight to de shpot ! 
 All mottse-schtill ve shtood, yet mit oop-shoompin' 
 hearts. 
 
 For he look shoost so pig as de shiant of de Hartz; 
 Und L heard do Sout'-Deutsehors say, ' Ave Morio ! 
 
 Bi-aiso Gott all goot shpirids py land und py sea !' 
 
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 Boot Itzig, of Frankfort, ho lift oop his nose, 
 
 Und be-mark dat de shpook hat peen changin' his 
 clothes, 
 For he zeemed like an Generalissimus drest 
 
 In a vlarain' new coat und magnificent vest. 
 Six bistols beschlagen m\^ silber he voro, 
 
 Und a oold-moundod swordt like a Kaisar he bore, 
 Und ve dinks dat do ghosdt — or votever he po — 
 
 Moosht haf proken some panks on his vay to de sea. 
 
 ' Id is he !' ' Und er leht noch /' — he lifs, ve all say : 
 
 Der Breitmann — Oldt Breitmann ! — Hans Breit- 
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 Und ve roosh to empraec him, und shtill more ve find 
 
 Dat verefer he'd peen, he'd left noding pehind. 
 In bofe of his poots derc vas porte-moneys crammed, 
 
 Mit creen-packs stoof-fiill all his haversack jammed, 
 In his bockets cold dollars vere shinglin' deir doons 
 
 Mit doo doozen votches und four doozcn shpoons, 
 Und doo silber tea-pods for makin' his dea, 
 
 Der ghosdt haf pring mit him, en route to de sea. 
 
 Mit goot sweed-botatoes, und doorkios, und rice, 
 
 Ve makes him a sooper of efery-dings nice. 
 Und do bummers hoont roundt apout, alle wie ein, 
 
 Dill dey findt a plantaschion mit parrels of wein. 
 Den 'tvas ' here's to you, Breitmann ! Alt Schwed — 
 hist zuruck 1 
 
 Vot teufels you makes since dis fourteen nights 
 veek?' 
 Und ve holds von shtupendous und dcrriple shpreo 
 
 For choy dat der Breitmann has cot to de sea. 
 
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 But in fain did vo ashk vJierc der Breitmann hat poen, 
 
 Vot he tid ; vot ho bass droo — or vot he might seen ; 
 Vero he kits his vine horse, or who gafe hira dem woons, 
 
 Und how Brovidence plessed him mit tea-pods and 
 shpoons ? 
 For to all of dem queeries he only reblies, 
 
 ' If you dells nie no quesdions, I a^liksyou no lies!' 
 So 'tvas glear dat some derriple myshVlry moost pe, 
 
 Vere he kits all dat bloonder ho prings to do sea. 
 
 Dere ish bapers in Richmond dells derriple lies, 
 
 How Sherman's grand armee haf raise deir sooplies : 
 For ve readt in hrindt dat der Sheneral Grant 
 
 Hay do Bummers haf only shoost take vat dey vant. 
 But 'tis vispered dat vile a refolfer'll go round, 
 
 Der Breitmann vill nefer a-peggin' be found ; 
 Or shtarvin' ash bris'ner — by doonder ! — not he, 
 
 Vile der Tcufol could help him to ged to de sea. 
 
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 Breitmann in Kansas. 
 
 YONCE oopon a dimes, goot vhile afder der Var vas 
 ofer, der Herr Breitmann vent oud Vest, dra- 
 fellin' apout like efory-dings — ' circuivit terram 
 et perambulavit earn,' ash der Teufel said ven dej' ask 
 him : 'How vash you und how you has peen ?' 
 
 Yon efening he vas drafel mit some ladiosh und 
 shendleraans, und he shtaid incoyniUis. Und dej' 
 sing'd songs, dill py-und-py one of de ladiesh say : 
 ' Ish any podies here ash know de crate pallad of Hans 
 Breitmann's Bartv ?' Dan Hans say : " Ecce Gallus /' 
 I am <lat rooster ! Den der Hans dook a trink und a 
 let-bencil und a biece of baper, und goes indo himself 
 ay ittle dimes, und den coomes out again mit dis boem : 
 
 Hans Breitmann vent to Kansas; 
 
 He drafel vast und var. 
 He rided shoost drei dousand miles 
 
 All in von rail-roat ear. 
 He knov^'.d foost-rate how far he goed — 
 
 ••ounted all de vile, 
 ^ -.To '; shoost one pottle of champagne, 
 J»H''' I :.;.oed at efery mile. 
 
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 Ilans Breitmann vent to Kansas ; 
 
 1 tell you vot, my j>oj, 
 You bet dey hat a pully dimes 
 
 In crossin' Illinoy. 
 Dey shpeaked deir shpeaks to all de volk 
 
 A-shtandin' in de car; 
 Den ashk dem in do dake a trink, 
 
 Und corned em ganz undgar. 
 
 Hans Breitmann vent to Kansas; 
 
 By shings ! dey did it prown. 
 Vhen he got into Leafenvort, 
 
 He found himselv in town. 
 Dey dined him at de Blanter's House, 
 
 Moor goot as man could dink ; 
 Mit efery dings on eart' to eat, 
 
 Und dicice as mooch to trink. 
 
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 Hans Breitmann vent to Kansas; 
 
 He vent it on de loud. 
 At Ellsvort', in de prairie land, 
 
 He foundt a pully crowd. 
 He looked for bleedin' Kansas, 
 
 But dat's ' blayed out,' dey say ; 
 De vhiskey-keg's de only dings 
 
 Dat's bleedin' here to-day. 
 
 Hans Breitmann vent to Kansas, 
 
 To see vot he couldt hear. 
 He foundt some Deutschers dat exisdt 
 
 Py makin' lager-peer. 
 Says he : ' Wie gehts, du Alt Gesell V 
 
 But nodings could be heard ; 
 Dey'd growed so fat in Kansas 
 
 Dat dey couldn't speak a vord. 
 
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 Hans Breitmann vont to Kansas ; 
 
 Vy shings ! I<lell you vot, 
 Von day ho met a crisly bear 
 
 Bat rooshed hira down, bei Gott ! 
 Boot der Breitmann took und bind der bear, 
 
 Und bleased him fery much — 
 For efcry vordt der crisly growled 
 
 Vas goot Bavarian Dutch ! 
 
 Hans Breitmann vent to Kansas ; 
 
 By doonder dat is so ! 
 He ridet oot upon de blains 
 
 To shasG de boofalo. 
 He fired his rifle at do bools, 
 
 Und gallop droo do shmoke, 
 Und shoomp de canyons shoost as if 
 
 Dor teufel vas a choke ! 
 
 It's hey de trail 1o Santa Fe ; 
 
 It's ho ! agross de blain ; 
 It's lope along de Denver Road, 
 
 Until ve toorn again, 
 Und de railroad drafol after us 
 
 Apout as quick as v^e ; 
 Dis Kansas ish do vastest land 
 
 Ash efer I did see. 
 
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 Hans Breitmann vent to Kansas ; 
 
 He haf a puHy dime ; 
 But 'tvas in old Missouri 
 
 Dat dey rooshed him up sublime. 
 Dey took him to der Bilot Knob, 
 
 Und all der knobs around ; 
 Dey shpreed him und dey tea'd him 
 
 Dill dey roon him to de ground. 
 
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 Hans Breitmann vont to Kansas ; 
 ' Droo all (lis eartiily land, 
 A-vorkin' out lifo's mission hero 
 
 Soobyectifly und grand. 
 Some beoblesh runs de boautiful, 
 
 Some vorks philosophic ; 
 Der Breitmann solf do intinide 
 
 Ash von eternal shpree ! 
 
SHTORY APOUT 
 
 Schnitzerl's Philosopede, 
 
 HERR Schnitzcrl make a philosopede, 
 Yon of dcr nev^est kindt ; 
 It vent mitout a vheel in vront, 
 Und hadn't none pehind. 
 Von vheel vas in de mittel, dough, 
 
 Und it vent us sure as ecks, 
 Vor he shtraddled on de axel dree 
 Mit der vheel 2)ctween his leeks. 
 
 Und ven he vant to shtart id off 
 
 He paddlct mit his veet, 
 Und soon ho cot to go so vast 
 
 Dat avery dings ho peat. 
 He run her out on Broader .shtreet, 
 
 He shkceted like de vind, 
 Hei ! how he bassed de vancy traps, 
 
 Und lef dem all pehind ! 
 
 De vellers mit de trotting nags 
 
 Pooled oop to see him bass : 
 De Deutschers all erstaunished saidt : 
 
 ' Potztansend ! Was ist das V 
 Boot vaster shtill der Schnitzerl flowed 
 
 On — mit a gashtly smile ; 
 He tidn't tooch de dirt, py shings ! 
 
 Not vonee in lialf a mile. 
 
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 Oh, vot isli all dis cartly pliss ? 
 
 Oh, vot iiih uiuu'h HOOckHOSs ? 
 Oh, vot ish varioiiH kinds of dings? 
 
 Und vot inh habbiness ? 
 Vo iind a pank note in tho shtrcedt, 
 
 Next dings dor pank ish proak ; 
 V'o falls, und knocks our outsides in, 
 
 Yen vo a lew sMi'iko niMko, 
 
 So vas it mit dor Schnit/erlcin 
 
 On his philosopode ; 
 ]Iis feet both shlipped ontsidoward shoost 
 
 Ven at his extra slipode. 
 lie felled oopen dor vhool of coorso; 
 
 Do vheel like blitzon flow; 
 Und Schnitzorl ho vos sohnitz in vact, 
 
 Vor id slishod hid him guide in two. 
 
 Und as for his philosopode, 
 
 Id cot so shkared, men say, 
 It pounded onward till it vent 
 
 (ianz teufohvards afay, 
 Boot vhoro ish now dor Sehnitzorl's soul ? 
 
 Yhere dos his shbirit pide ? 
 In Himmol troo dt^ endless pluo. 
 
 It takes a niodoor ride. 
 
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 BY HANS BREITMANN. 
 
 Ell iioblo Ritter Hugo 
 
 Voii Scliwillensaufonstoiii, 
 Rode out iiiit slipoer und liolmot, 
 Und 1)0 coom to do punks of do Rhine. 
 
 Und oop dcro rose a meer-nuild, 
 
 Vot hadn't got nodings on, 
 Und she sa}', ' Oh, Ritter Hugo, 
 
 Vhere you goes mit yournelf alone?' 
 
 Und he nays, ' I rides in de creenwood, 
 
 Mit helmet und mit shpcer. 
 Till I gooms into ein GasthauB, 
 
 Und dere I trinks some peer.' 
 
 Und den outsphoke de maiden 
 
 Yot hadn't got nodings on : 
 'I ton't dink mooch of beoplesh 
 
 Dat goes mit demselfs alone. 
 
 'You'd petter eoom down in de wasser, 
 Vhere dere's heaps of dings to .«ee, 
 
 Und haf a shplendid tinner 
 Und drafel along mit me. 
 
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 < Deio you see* do tisrli a scliwimmiii' 
 Und you cutelies dom ot'ery one :' — 
 
 So sung dis wussoi* luaidcn 
 Vot hadn't got nodini^^s on. 
 
 ^Dcro ish drunks all Cull nnl money 
 
 In ships (hit vent down of old ; 
 Und you hclpsii yonrself, hy doondoi'! 
 
 To shiinnierin' crowns of gold. 
 
 * Shoost look at doso shpoons und vatches ! 
 
 Shoost SCO doso dianiant rings ! 
 Gooni down und vill your bockots, 
 
 Und I'll gisH you like el'ery dings. 
 
 ' Vot you vanish mit your sehnaps und lager ? 
 
 Coom down into dor Rhine ! 
 Dor ish ])Ot(lcs der Kaiser Charleinagno 
 
 Voncc tilled niit gold-red wine ! 
 
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 Bat fetched him— he shtood all shpell-pound ! 
 
 She pooled his coat-tails down, 
 8he drawcd him oonder der wasser, 
 
 J)e maiden mil ncrdings on. 
 
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Die Schcene Wittwe. 
 
 (IJI: I'OOTV VIDDKU.) 
 
 I. Vot de Yankee Chap Sung. 
 
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 DAT pooty liddle vidder 
 A'ot vc doslm't vish to name, 
 Ish still lobon on dat liddle shtrcct, 
 A-doin' shoost de .same. 
 Do glerks aroundt de goruer.s 
 Soinedimos goes round to zee 
 How die tarlin' liddle vitchy ecs, 
 
 Und ask 'er how she pe. 
 Dey luf's her ver' goot liqoor, 
 Dey luf's her liddle shtore ; 
 Dey lui's lier little pab}^, 
 
 But dey lufs die viddcr more. 
 To dalk mit dat shveet vidder, 
 
 Yen she hands das lager round, 
 Vill make der shap dat does id 
 
 ]*e happy, ve'll be pound. 
 Dat ish, if we can veil pelieve 
 
 De glerks vat driid<s das pier, 
 Who goes in dere for noding elshe, 
 Put simply vor to zee her. 
 
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 II. How der Breitmann cut him out. 
 
 
 OH, yen, I know die wittwe, 
 Mit eyes so prite und proun ! 
 She's de allerschoeiiste wittwe 
 Yot lif in (lis here down. 
 In her phiek silk gown— mine grashious— 
 
 All puttoned to de neck — 
 Unci a pooty liddle collar, 
 Mitout a shpot or spheclr 
 Ho! clear do drack, yo\i oder fnms — 
 
 You gan't pekin to shine 
 Yhen de lufly vidder cooms along— 
 
 Dis vidder ash ish mine ! 
 Ho ! clear do drack you Yankee shaps, 
 
 You Englishers und sooch. 
 You can't pekin to coot me out, 
 
 Mitout you dalks in Dootch. 
 Ich hab die sclupne wittwe 
 Schon lange nit gesehn, 
 Ich sah sio gestern Ahond 
 
 Wohl bei dcm Counter stehn. 
 Die Wangen rein wie Milch and Blut, 
 . Die Augen hell und klar. 
 Ich hab sie sechsmal auch gekusst — 
 Potztauscnd ! das ist wahr. 
 
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 I had not seen tlie pretty widow 
 
 For a long time ; 
 But last evening I saw her, 
 
 Standing gracefully behind the counter. 
 Her cheeks were as pure and ruddy 
 
 As milk and blood couM make them. 
 Her eyes were beautifully bright and clear. 
 Did I give her as many as six 4iisses ? 
 
 I'pon my word, I believe I did ! 
 
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CONTENTS. 
 
 I'AOK. 
 
 HANS BREITMANN ABOUT TOWN .... 43 
 
 SCHNITZERL'S PHILOSOPEDE— Pardt Skcondt . . 48 
 
 A BALLAD APOUT DE ROWDIES .... 58 
 
 WEIN GEIST . 60 
 
 HANS BREITMANN IN POLITICS : 
 
 I. Thk Nomination 62 
 
 II. Thf. Committee of Instruction 65 
 
 III. Mr. Twine Explains being "Sound upon the Goose" 68 
 
 IV. How Bkkitmann and Schmit were Reported to be 
 
 LOG-RoLLING 72 
 
 V. How Thky Held the Mass Meeting .... 76 
 
 VI. Breitmaxn's Great Speech 78 
 
 VII. The Author Asserts the Vast Intellectual Supe- 
 riority OP Germans to Americans . . . 83 
 
 VIII. Showing How Mr. Hiram Twine " Played Off " on 
 
 Schmit . . . . , . . 86 
 
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 Breitmann about Town. 
 
 DER Schvvackcnluiniiner cooni to down, 
 Pofore cle Full vas pant, 
 Und by dor Bi-eitinami drawed lie in 
 Ash dreimals lionored ga.st. 
 Lcd's see de sighdts ! In self und worldt,- 
 
 Dere's "sighdts" for him, to see, 
 Who Selbstanscdiaungsverm(ri[i;en hat, 
 Said Breiteniann, said he. 
 
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 Dey vented to de Opera Huns, 
 
 Und dere dey vound em bUiyin'. 
 Of Offenbach, (der open brook,) 
 
 His show spiel Belle Hel^ne. 
 " Dere's Offenbach, — Sebastian Bach, — 
 
 Mit Kaulbach, — dat makes dree: 
 I alvaj'^s likes soosh brooks ash dose," 
 
 Said Breitemann, said he. 
 
 Dey vented to de Bibliothek, 
 Yhich Mishder Astor bilt : 
 Some pookd vere only en broschiire, 
 Und some vere pound und gilt. 
 '• Dat makes de gold — dat makes de sinn, 
 
 Mit pooks, ash men, ve see, 
 ,1^0 pest tressed vellers gilt de most :" — 
 Said Breitemann, said he. 
 
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 Dcy vent to sec an edider, 
 
 Who'd shangcd his flag und doon, 
 Und crowod oopon der oder side, 
 
 Dat very afdernoon. 
 " De anciends vorshipped wctter-cockt^, 
 
 To wetter /«/ics pent do knee ; 
 Pow down, mein Schwaekenhammer, pow !" 
 
 Said Breitemann, said he. 
 
 De}^ vented py a panker's hanse, 
 
 Und Schwaekenhammer shvore, 
 Id only vant a pig red shield 
 
 Hoong oop pefore de toor ; 
 One side of red, one side of gold, 
 
 Like de knighd's in hisdorie — 
 " De schildern of dat schild is rich," 
 
 Said Breitemann, said he. 
 
 Dey vent oonto a bicture sale, 
 
 Of frames wort' many a cent, 
 De broberty of a shendleman, 
 
 Who oonto Europe vent. 
 " Dont gry — he'll soon pe pack again 
 
 Mit anoder gallerio : 
 He sells dem oud dwelt dimes a year," 
 
 Said Breitemann, said he. 
 
 Dey vented to dis berson's house, 
 
 To see his furnidure. 
 Sold oud at aucdion rite afay, 
 
 Berembdory und sure. 
 " He geeps six houses all at vonce 
 
 Each veek a sale dere pe, 
 Gotts ! vat a dime his vife moost hafe !"—»•' 
 
 Said Breitemann, said he. 
 
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 Dey vent to vind a goot eigiir, 
 
 Long (limes (ley roamed apout, 
 Von vellcr had a jM-an new nort, 
 
 De f'cry latest out. 
 " Mein freund— I dinlvB.you errs yourself 
 
 De shmell is holdt to me; 
 De Infamlas Stinkadores brand," — 
 
 Said Breitemann, said he. 
 
 Dey vented to de virst hotel, 
 
 De prandy make dem creep, 
 A trop of id's enough to make 
 
 A brazen monkey veep. 
 " Dey say a viner house ash dis, 
 
 Vill soon gc-bildet pe, 
 Orate Gott ! — vot can dej- mean to trink?' 
 
 Said Breitemann, said he. 
 
 Dey vented droo de Irish shtreeds, 
 
 Dey saw vrom haus to haus, 
 Und gounted oop, 'pout more or less, 
 
 Vive hoondred awful rows. 
 " If all dese liddle vights dey waste, 
 
 Could von crate pattle pe, 
 Gotts! how de Fenian funds voiildt rise!" 
 
 Said Breitemann, said he. 
 
 ])ey vent to see de Ridiuilisds, 
 
 Who vorship Gott mitt vlowers, 
 In hobes he'll lofe dem pack again, 
 
 In winter among de showers. 
 " Vhen de Pacific railroat's done, 
 
 Dis dings imbrofed vill pe ; 
 De joss-sticks vill pe santal vood," — 
 
 Said Breitemann, said he. 
 
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 JDey vent to hear u breeeher of 
 
 Do last Honyuclion slityle, 
 'Twas 'iiou^h to malco der teiilol weop 
 
 To sec his " awful shmilo." 
 " Vot bitios dut der,Foc'hter ne'er 
 
 Vas in Thoologie ; 
 Dey'd make liini pisboi* in dis slioorsh/' 
 
 Said Breitomann, naid be. 
 
 Dey vent indo a shpordin' crib, 
 
 Da I'owittes cloosternd dick, 
 Dey ashlc him deli dem vot o'glock, 
 
 Und dat infernal quick. 
 Der Breitmann draw'd his 'volver oud. 
 
 Ash gool asli gool couldt pe, 
 " Id's shoost a-goin' to shdrike six," — 
 
 Said Breitemann, said he. 
 
 Dey vent polid'ga! meedins nexl, 
 
 Dey hear dem rant and rail. 
 Der bresident vas a forger, 
 
 Sboost bardoned oud of jail. 
 He does it oud of cratitood. 
 
 To dem who set him vree : 
 '• Id's Ilarmonio of Inderesds," — 
 
 Said Breitemann, .said he. 
 
 Dey vent to a clairfoyand witch, 
 A plack-eyed, handsome maid ; 
 She wahrsagt all der vortunes — denn 
 " Fife dollars, gents !" slie said. 
 '' Dese vitches are nod of dis eart', 
 Und yed are o?i id, I see ; 
 Der Shakesbeare knew de preed right veil," 
 Said Breitemann. .said he. 
 
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 l)cy vented to a restauraiRl, 
 
 Dcr vaiter coot a dash ; 
 lie gai'f'cd a shieken in a vink, 
 
 Und serfed id at a vlasli. 
 " Dat sliap knows veil slioost how to coot, 
 
 Und roon mit poulterie, 
 lie vus copitain oonder Turehin vonco," 
 
 Said ]ii'eiteniann, said he. 
 
 Dey vented to de Yonian's Hitu'lids, 
 
 Verc hities all agrees, 
 I)e gals should pc do voters, 
 
 Und deir beaux all de voteos. 
 " For efery man dat nefer vorks, 
 
 Von frau should vranchised pe : 
 Dat ish de vay I solfdis ding," 
 
 Said Breitemaun, said he. 
 
 Doy vented oop, dey vented down, 
 
 'Tvas like a roarin rifer, 
 De sighds vas here — do sighds vas dore — 
 
 Und de vorldt vent on forefer. 
 *' De more ve trinks, de nioro ve sees, 
 
 Dis vorldt a derwisch pe ; 
 Das Werden's all von whirling droonk," 
 
 Said Breiteniann, said he. 
 
T" 
 
 SchnitzerVs Philosopede. 
 
 PARDT SECONDT. 
 
 VEN Brcitmann hoar dat Schnitzerl 
 Vas qiiardcred into dvvo, 
 Und how his crato philosopedo 
 To 'm tcufel had gone flow ; 
 lie d inked and dinkod kg hcafy 
 
 As only Dcutschors can, 
 Denn saidt, "Who mighdt bclieict 
 Dis ish do cnt of man ? 
 
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 " Do human souls of booples 
 
 Exi^idt in doir idces, 
 Und dis of Wolfram Schnitzorl 
 
 Mighdt dravel many vays. 
 Jn his Bcstimmung dcs Menschen 
 
 Der Fichto makes peliofc 
 Dat ve brogress oon-endly 
 
 In vot pehind wo leafe. 
 
 Do slibarrow falls ground-downwarts, 
 
 Or drafols to do West ; 
 Do shbarrow8 dat coom afUor 
 
 Bikl shoost do same oldt nost. 
 Man hat not vings or fodders, 
 
 Tjnd, in odor dings, 'tis saidt, 
 Ho tont coom oop to sh barrows ; 
 
 Boot on nests he goes ahet. 
 
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 " O vliost (lou troo lioniiii yorklts 
 
 Unci nobulusor foam, 
 JJy riionsdroiis mitiiight .shiunt forrn« 
 
 Or vhoi'o rod tyfcls roam ; 
 Or vhoro do chosts of shky rackets 
 
 Poyond croud ion floo ? 
 Vhore'or dou art, oh Hchnitzerlein ! 
 
 Crato saint! look down on mo ! 
 
 " Und doach mo how you makot 
 Dat crato philosopodo, 
 Vitch roon dwico six nulls vaster 
 Ash any A rap shteed. 
 , Und doach mo how to 'stonisli folk, 
 Und knock dom out do shpots ; 
 Come pack to cart, oh Schnit/erlein, 
 Und pring it down to dots !' 
 
 Shoost ash dis vort vent outvarts 
 
 Hans dinkod ho see a vlash, 
 Und untorwards dc doblo 
 
 lie doomplo mit a crash ; 
 Und to him, 'nioong do glaesses, 
 
 Und pottles ash vas proke, 
 Mit his hot in a cigar box, 
 
 An foico from Ilimmel shpoko : 
 
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 •' Adsum Dumine Breitmann! 
 
 Herr Capi lain— here I pe ! 
 So dell mo right honcstc 
 
 Quare inquicfasti me ? 
 Te video inter spoonibus, 
 
 Et lanjis ghissis too, 
 (''crevisiu repletls, 
 
 Sicat parcussas fonitiu /" 
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 Denn Breitmann ansver Schnitzerl 
 
 " Coarctor nimis. — See ! 
 Siquidem PhiUstiim 
 
 Pugnant adversum me. 
 Ergo vocavi te, 
 
 Ash Saul vocavii Sam- 
 uel, lit mi. ostenderes 
 
 Quid taiitei faciavi V 
 
 Denn der shpirit, in Lateinisch, 
 
 Saidt, " J?ene— dat's de dalk ! 
 Non Jiabes in hoc shanty 
 
 A shingle et some chalk ? 
 Non video inkum et calamos : 
 
 (I shbose some bummer slidole 'cm) : 
 Levate ocnlos tuos, son 
 
 Et aspice ad linteoliim /" 
 
 Denn Breitmann see de chalk-piece 
 
 Vitch riset from do floor, 
 TJnd signet a philosopede 
 
 Alone oopon de toor ; 
 De von dat Schnitzerl fabricate, 
 
 Und oonderneat he see : 
 Probate inter equites : 
 
 "Try dis in de cavallrie." 
 
 Denn Breitmann shtoot ooprightly 
 
 Und leaiiet on a host, 
 IJnd saidt : " If dis couldt, shouldt hafo pee^ 
 
 It vouldt mighdt peen a chost ! 
 Boot if it pe nouomenon,. 
 
 Phenomenoned indeed, 
 Or de soobyective obyectified. 
 
 I'fe cot de philosopede." 
 
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 Denn out he scekt a pluck schmidt, 
 
 Ash vork in iron shteel; 
 To make him a philosopede 
 
 Mit shoost an onl^^vhoel. 
 Do dings vas makot simple, 
 
 Ash all crate idces should pe ; 
 For 'twas noding boot a gart vheol 
 
 Mit a two vcct achseldree. 
 
 Do dimes der Breitmann doomple 
 
 In learnin for to ride, 
 Yas ofdener ash de sand grains 
 
 Dat roUen in de tide. 
 Do dimes he cot oopsetted 
 
 la shdeerin lefdt und righdt, 
 Yas ofdener ash de cleamin shdars 
 
 Dat shtud de shky py nighdt. 
 
 Boot de vorstost of de veadures 
 
 In dis von vheel horse, you bet, 
 Ish dat man couldt go so nicely 
 
 Pefore he got oopset : 
 Some dimes he go like plazes 
 
 Und toorn her, extra-fein, 
 Und denn shlop ofer — dis is vhat 
 
 Hafe killed dor Schnitzerlein. 
 
 Soosh droples as der Breitmann hafe 
 
 To make dis 'vontion go, 
 Yas nefer seen py mordal man 
 
 Oopon dis vorldt pelow. 
 He doompled righdt, he doompled lefdt, 
 
 He hafe a tousand toomps, 
 Der nefer vas a gricket-ball 
 
 Yot got soosh 'fernal boomps. 
 
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 Boot Ri'h he Bhvoar't he'd do it, 
 
 He shvorc id .should po done, 
 Dough he schimpft und fluchtc laesterlich, 
 
 He visht he'd ne'er pegun. 
 WxiHagel! Blitz! Kreuzsahrament ! 
 
 He maket de houscr ring, 
 Und hoped de Schnitzerl pe verdammt 
 
 For deachin him dis ding. 
 
 ^ Nun — goot ! Ad hist he got it, 
 
 Und i^eaudifbol he goed, 
 Dis day, saidt he, "I'll 'stonish folk 
 
 A ridin on de road ; 
 Dis day, py shinks, I'll do it ! 
 
 Und knock dings out of sight !" 
 Ach weh ! for Breitmann dat day 
 
 Vas not pe-markt mit vhite. 
 
 De noompers of de Deutsche folk 
 
 Dat coom dis feat to see, 
 I dink in soper earnest-hood 
 
 Mighdt not ge-reckonet pe. 
 For miles dey shtood along de road, 
 
 Mein Gott ! but dey vas dry ; 
 Dey trinkcd den lager-beer shops oop, 
 
 Pcforc der Hans coom py. 
 
 
 
 Yhen all at vonce drementous gries 
 
 Do favy country shook ; 
 Und beoplos shkreemt : " Dd ist er 1 Schau ! 
 
 Dere ish der Breitmann ! — Look!" ♦ 
 
 Mein Clott ! vas efer soosh a shoudt? 
 
 Vas efer soosh a gry ? 
 Vcn like a brick-bat in a vight, 
 
 ])er Brcitomann roosh \)y. 
 
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 O morchil man ! Vy ish id, clow 
 
 Hast passion to go vast? 
 Yy ish id dat do tog und horse 
 
 Liitcs Hhbeed too quick to last ? 
 De pugs, de pirds, de pumple-peos, 
 
 Und all dat ish, 'twould seem, 
 Ish nefer hoppy boot, exsept 
 
 When pilin on de shtoani. 
 
 Der Breitmann flew! Yon mighdy gry, 
 
 Ash he vent scootin bast, 
 Yon derriple, drementous yell — 
 
 Dat day do virst — and last. 
 Yot ha ! vot ho ! \y ish id dus ? 
 
 Yot makes dem shdare aghast ? 
 Yy cooms dat vail of wild tespair? 
 
 Ish somedings got gesmasht? 
 
 Yea — cfen so. Yea, ferily — 
 
 Shbeak, soul ! It is dy biz ! 
 Dev Breitmann shkeot ho vast along, 
 
 Dey fairly hoard him whizz. 
 Yen shoost oopon a hill-top point 
 
 It caught a pranch ge-pent, 
 Und like an opple vrom a svitch, 
 
 Afay Hans Breitmann vent. 
 
 Yent troo do air a hoondert feet, 
 
 (Allowin more or less) — 
 Denn pobb—pobb—pobb — a mile or dwo, 
 
 He rollet along — I guess. 
 Say — hast dou seen a gannon ball 
 
 Half shpent, shtili poundin on ; 
 Like made of gummi-lasticum ? 
 
 So vent der Brcitemann. 
 
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 Dey biek him up — doy pring him in — 
 
 No wort dor Breitmanii shpoke. 
 Der doktor look — he shvear erntaunt 
 
 Dat nodings ish peen proke ! 
 He rollet de rocky road entlong, 
 
 Ho pouncet o'er shtock und shtonc ? 
 You'd dink he'd knocked his outsides in, 
 
 Yet nefer preak a pone ! 
 
 All shtill Hans lay — bevilderfied — 
 
 Nor seemet to mind de shaps, 
 Nor moofed, oontil der medicus 
 
 Hafe dose him veil mit schnapps. 
 De schmell voke oop de boetry 
 
 Of lays ven he vas young, 
 TJnd he murmulte de frogmends 
 
 Of an sad romandic song : 
 
 " As summer pring do roses, 
 
 Und roses pring de dew. 
 So Deutsehland gifes de maidens 
 
 Yot fetch de bier to you, 
 Komm Maidlein ! Kothe Waenglein ! 
 
 Mit a wein glass in your paw ! 
 Ye'll ged troonk amoong de roses 
 
 Und lie soper on de shdraw ! 
 
 "As winter prings do ice-wind, 
 
 Dat plow" o'er burg und hill. 
 Hard times pring in de lantlord, 
 
 Und de lantlord pring de bill. 
 Boot sing Maidlein ! Rothe Waenglein ! 
 
 Mit wein glass in your paw ! 
 Ve'll ged troonk amoong de roses, 
 
 Und lie soper on de shdraw !" 
 
 
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 Dev dook der Breitmami liomowarts, 
 
 Boot cfer on de vay, 
 lie nefer shbcakct no man, 
 
 Und noding else could say : 
 Boot — " Maidlcin ! Rothe Wrenglein ! 
 
 Mit wein glass in her paw, 
 Ye'll ged troonk amoong de roses, 
 
 Jlnd lie soper on de shdraw !" 
 
 Dey laid der Hans i.m Bettc, 
 
 Peneat do eidor-doun, 
 Und sempled all de doktors 
 
 Vot doktored in de town. 
 Dat ish, de Deutsche Aertzte, 
 
 For Breitniann alfays says, 
 De Deutschers ish de onlies 
 
 Mit originell idees. 
 
 Dere vas Doktor Moritz Schlinkenschlog, 
 
 Dat vork ash cafeopath, 
 Und der learned Cohus Schocpfskopf, 
 
 Dat use de milchy bath ; 
 Und Korschalitschky aus IJoehmen, 
 
 Yot cure mit slibovitz, 
 Und Wechselbalg from Berlin, 
 
 Who only 'tend to fits. 
 
 Dere vas Strobbich aus Westfalen 
 
 AVho mofe all eart'ly ills 
 Mit concentrirter schinkcn juice, 
 
 Und Pumpernickel pills ; 
 Und a bier-kur man from Munich, 
 
 Und a grape-curist from Khein, 
 Und von who shkaro tisease afay 
 
 Mit dose of 8chlesier wein. 
 
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 So (ley meed in consooklation 
 
 Mit Doktor Winkelcek, 
 Who brackdise "renovation" 
 
 Mit sauerkraut und speck. 
 Und dat no man shoiiklt po shlightct 
 
 Or treatct ash a tiince, 
 Dey 'greed to try deir sj'stcms 
 
 Oopon Breitmann all at vonce. 
 
 Dat ishj mit de cxcepdion, 
 
 Of gifin Schlesier wein ; 
 For de I'cmcdy vas danger-full 
 
 On von who trink from Rhine. 
 Ash dor tcufcl once declaret 
 
 Ven he taste it on a shj^reo, 
 Dat a man to trink soosh liquor 
 
 Moost a born Silesian pe. 
 
 So dey all vent los at Breitmann, 
 
 Und woonderfool to dell, 
 He coomed to his gesundheit, 
 
 Und pooty soon cot veil. 
 Some hinted at Natura 
 
 Mit de oldt vis sanatrix\ 
 Boot each doktor shvore he cured him, 
 
 Und de rest were Taugenix. 
 
 I know not vot der Breitmann 
 
 More newly has pegun, 
 Boot dey say he dalks day-daily 
 
 Mit Dana of de Su)k 
 Dey dalk in Deutsch togeder, 
 
 Und volk say de ent vill pe 
 Philosopedal changes 
 
 In de Union cavallrie. 
 
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 Gott liclp de howl in safage ! 
 
 Gott help de Indi-an ! 
 Shouldi Breitmann choin liis forces 
 
 Mit Shenoral Sheridan. 
 Unt^denn to sing his braises 
 
 Acain I'll gifo a lied — 
 Hicr hat dis dale an cndo 
 
 Of Brietmann's ])hilosopede. 
 
A Ballad apout de Rowdies. 
 
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 DE moon shines of'ei* de cloudlens, 
 UnJ do cloiidts plow of'or de 8ea, 
 Und I vent to Coney Island, 
 Und I took mein Scliatz mit me. 
 Mine Schatz, Katriria Bauer, 
 
 I gife her mein heart und vordt ; 
 Boot vc tidn't know vot beoples 
 Do Dampsschilf hafe cot on poard. 
 
 De preezo plowed cool und bleasant, 
 
 We looket at de town 
 Mit sonn-light on de shdeebles, 
 
 Und wetter-fan<_s doornin, round. 
 Ve sat on de deck in a gorner 
 
 Und dropled nopody dere, 
 Ven all aroundt oos de rowdies 
 
 Poginned to plackguard und shvear! 
 
 A voman mit a papy 
 
 Yas sittin in de blace"^ 
 Von tooket a chew tobacco 
 
 Und trowed it indo her vace. 
 De voman got convulshons, 
 
 De papy pegin to gry ; 
 Und de rowdiea shkreemed out a laffin. 
 
 Und saidt dat de fun vas " high." 
 
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 Pimepy vo beooinc sonio lioongor 
 
 Katrinu Bauer und I, 
 I opeiiot de lit of mine pasket, 
 
 Und pringed out a cherry bie. 
 A cherry kooken niit pretzels, 
 
 "How goot !" Katrina Haid, 
 Yen a rowdy snatched it from her, 
 
 Und preakod it ofer mine het. 
 
 I dolls him he be a plackguart 
 
 I gifed him a biece my mind, 
 I vouldt saidt it pofore a tousand, 
 
 Mit der teuf'el himself pehind. 
 Denn ho knocks me down mit a sloong-shot, 
 
 Und peats me plack and pluc; 
 Und all de plackguards kick me, 
 
 Dill I vainted, and dat ish druo. 
 
 De rich American beoples 
 
 Don't know how de rowdies shtrike 
 De poor hardt-workin Sherman, 
 
 He knows it more ash he like. 
 If de Deutsche sbcakers und bapers 
 
 Are sometimes too hard on dis land, 
 Shoost dink how de Deutsche kit driven 
 
 Along by de rowdy's hand ! 
 
Wein Geist. 
 
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 ISTOOMPLED oiul ov a (hiforn, 
 13erauscht mit si gallon of wein, 
 Unci I rooshocl along cle Strassen, 
 Like a derriple Ebei'dchvveln. 
 
 Und like a lordl}' boar-big, 
 
 I doompled do soper folk ; 
 ITnd I trowed a shtono droo a shdreed lamp, 
 
 Und bot' of de classes I proke. 
 
 Und a gal vent roonin' bast me, 
 
 Like a vild coose on de vings, 
 Boot I gatch her for all her skreechin, 
 
 Und giss her like afery dings. 
 
 Und denn mit an board und a shdore-box, 
 
 I blay de horse-viddle a biece. 
 Dill de neighbors shkreem **deat' !" und 
 "murder!" 
 
 Und holler aloudt " bolice ?" 
 
 Und vhen der crim night wa>chter 
 Says all of dis foon moost shtop, 
 
 I oop mit mein oombrella, 
 Und schlog him ober de kop. 
 
 I leaf him like tead on de bavemend, 
 Und roosh droo a darklin' lane. 
 
 Dill moonlighd und tisdand musik 
 Pring me roundt to my soul again. 
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 Und 1 sits all oondor do linden, 
 Do hoai'ts-lcat' linden dree ; 
 
 Und I dink of do quick ge-vanisht lofo 
 Dat vent like du vind from mo. 
 
 Und I voondors in mine dipsy hood, 
 If a damsel or dream vas sslio ! 
 
 Dis life ish all a lindens 
 
 Mit Ijoles dat show do Plue ; 
 
 Und podween do finite pranches, 
 Cooms llimmol lii^ht shinin troo. 
 
 r are rauslilin o or me, 
 
 Do blaette 
 
 Und efery loaf ish a fay, 
 Und doy vait dill do Wintlsbraut comet, 
 
 To pear dem iji Fall afay. 
 
 Und I look at a rock by do rifer, 
 Vherc a stein ish of harpe form, 
 
 -Year dausend in, oiul, it shtandet — 
 Und nopody blays but do shtorm. 
 
 Hero voneo on a dimes a vitcho?, 
 Sooni melodies hero peginned, 
 
 Do harpe ward all zu steine, 
 .Die melodic ward zu wind. 
 
 Und so mit dis tox-i-cation, 
 Vitch hardon-i do outer Mo ; 
 
 Uber stein und schwein, do weine, 
 Shdill harps oud a mclodie. 
 
 Boot deeper do Ur-liod ringet, 
 Ober stein und wein und svinos, 
 
 Dill it endet vhere all peginnet, 
 Und alios wird owig zu eins, 
 
 In do dipsy, treamless sloompor 
 Vhich units do Nichts und Sovns. 
 
Breitmann in Politics. 
 
 I.— THE NOMINATION. 
 
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 HEN ash do var vaa obor, 
 
 UikI Beaco hor shnovv-wice vings, 
 
 Yas vafin o'or do coondiy 
 
 (In shpods) like af'oiy dings; 
 Und heroes vore revartltot, 
 
 Do beople all pegan 
 To say 'tvas shame dat nodings 
 
 Vas done for Breitomann. 
 
 N"o man wised how id vas shtartet, 
 
 Or where der fore shlog came, 
 Boot dey shveared it vas a cinder, 
 
 Deroto a purnin shame : 
 " Dere is Schnitzerl in de Gustom-House — 
 
 Potzblitz ! can dis dings pe ? — 
 Und Breitmann he hafe nodings : 
 
 Vot sights is dis to see ! 
 
 " Nod de virst red cendt for Breitmann ! 
 Ish dis do po de gry 
 On de man dat sacked de repels 
 
 Und trinked dem high and dry ? 
 By meine Seel' I shvears id, 
 
 Und vot's more I deglares id's drue, 
 He vonce gleaned out a down in half an oor, 
 Und shiripped id strumpf und .'•hoe. 
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 " lie was hIjoohI liUo Kct'iiij^' ot/A'l, 
 
 Of whom do Hhdory dell, 
 Dor Hun who go for do Romans 
 
 Und glfo dcm Hhinin hell ; 
 Only <liH (hit dey nay no grass vouldt erow 
 
 Vhcro Ktzi'l'H horso ha<l trot, 
 Und I really boliole vore Breitmaiui go 
 
 Do hops shpriiig oop, bei (rott!' 
 
 If once you tie a dog loose, 
 
 Dere ish more soon gets arount, 
 Und wonn dis vas shtartedt on Broitmann, 
 
 It was ringH aroom hc-foiindt ; 
 Dough vhy ho vwost hafe somedings 
 
 Van not by no mean gloar, 
 Nor tid id, like Paulus' confersion, 
 
 On do snap to all abbear ! 
 
 Und, in facdt, Balthazar Bumehen 
 
 Saidt he couldtent nicht blainly see, 
 Yy a voUer for gadderin riches 
 
 Shood dus rovartedt pc : 
 Dor Broitmann own droi Houser, 
 
 Mit a wein-handlo in a stohi", 
 Dazu cin Lager-Wirthschaft, 
 
 Und sonst was— Somedings more. 
 
 Dis plasted plackguard none-scnse 
 
 Ye couldn't no means shtand, 
 From a narrow-mi ntet shvine's kopf, 
 
 Of our nople captain grand : 
 Soosh low, goarse, betty bornirtheit. 
 
 A shentleman deplores ; 
 So ve called him verjinchter IIumMott 
 
 ^'nd shmvssed him out of toors. 
 
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 So vo all dissolfed dat Breilmann 
 
 Shouldt hafe a nomination 
 To go to de Legisladoor, 
 
 To make some dings off do nation ; 
 Mit de helb of a Connedignt man, 
 
 In whom vo hafe great hobes, 
 "Who hat shange his bolidic^ fivdeen dimes, 
 
 Und dereforo knew do roboR. 
 
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IL— The Committee of Instruction. 
 
 DS, 
 
 DENN for our Insd ructions Oomody 
 De ding vas protocol lirt, 
 By Docktoi* Emsig Grubler, 
 "Who in Jena vonce studirot ; * 
 TJnd for Breitinann liis instrugtions 
 
 Do Comedy tid say 
 Dat de All out-going from do Ones 
 Yash die first Moral Idc'e. 
 
 Und de scgondt crate Moral Idee 
 
 Dat into him ve ring.s, 
 Vas dat government for avery man 
 
 Moost alfays do avery dings ; 
 Und die next Idee do vitch his mindt 
 
 Esbecially ve gall, 
 Ish to do mitout a Bresident 
 
 Und no government at all, 
 
 Und die fourt Idee ve vish der Hans 
 
 Youldt alfays keeb in flew, 
 Ish to cooldifate die Peaudifool, 
 
 Likewise de (loot und Drue ; 
 Und de form of dis oopright-hood 
 
 In proctlso to present, 
 He moost get our little pills all basscd 
 
 Mitout id's gostin a cent. 
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 Unci die fift' Iddc — ash learn in 
 
 Ish de cratest ding on eart, 
 Und ash Shoopider der Yatcr 
 
 To Minerfa gife ge-birt' — • 
 Ve peg dat Breitmann oonto oos - 
 
 All pooblic tockumonts 
 Vich he can grap or shteal vill scndt 
 
 Franked — mit his gomplimcnts. 
 
 Die seehste crate Moral Idee — 
 
 Since id fery veil ish kuown 
 Dat mind ish de resooldt of food, 
 
 Ash der Moleschott has shown, 
 Und ash mind ish de highest form of Gott, 
 
 As in Fichte dot' abbear — 
 He moost alfays go mit de barty 
 
 Dat go for lager bier. 
 
 Now as all desc instrugdions 
 
 Yere showed to Misder Twine, 
 De Yangee boledician, 
 
 He say dey vere fery fine : 
 Dey verepesser ash goot, und alniosdt nice- 
 
 A tarnal tall concern ; — 
 Boot dey hafe some little trawpacks, 
 
 Und in fagdt weren't worth a dern. 
 
 Boot yed, mit our bermission, 
 
 If de shentlemans allow — 
 Here all der Shermans in de room 
 
 Dake oft' deir hats und pow — 
 He vouldt gife our honored gandidate 
 
 Some nodions of his own, 
 Hafing managed some elecdions 
 
 Mit sookcess, as veil vas known. 
 
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 Let him plow id all his own vay, 
 
 He'd pet as sure as born, 
 Dat our mann vouldt not coora out ef 
 
 Der liddle endt der horn, 
 3Iit his goot 'proad Sherman shoulders- 
 
 Dis maket oos laugh, py shink ! 
 So de comedy shtart for Brietmann's — 
 
 Nota bene — afder a trink ! 
 
in.— Mr. Twine Explains Being ''Sound 
 Upon the Goose." 
 
 DERE ill his crate corved oaken shtuhl 
 Der Brcitmann sot ho ; 
 He lookt shoest like do shiant 
 In do Kinder hishdoric ; 
 Und pefore him, on de tischc, 
 
 Yas — vhere man alfays foundt it — 
 Dwelf inches of goot lager, 
 Mit a Boemish glass aroundt it. 
 
 De foorst vordt dat der Brcitmann spoke 
 
 ^ He maked no sbcech or sign : 
 
 De next remark vas, -' Zapfet aus T' — 
 
 De dird vas, " Schenket cin /" 
 Vhen in coom liddle Gottlieb 
 
 Und Trina mit a shtock 
 Of allerbest Markgraefler wcin — 
 
 Dazu dwelf glacscr Bock. 
 
 Denn Misder Twine dcglare dat he 
 
 Yas happy to denounce 
 Dat as Copdain^ Brcitmann suited oos 
 
 Egsockdly do an ounce, 
 He vas ged de nomination, 
 
 Und need nod more eekshblain : 
 Der Brcitmann dink in silence, 
 
 ^^nd denn roar aloudt Champagne ! 
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 Dcnn Mishder Twine, while trinken wein, 
 
 Mitwhiles vent on do say, 
 Dat long insdruckdions in dis age 
 
 Vcro nod de dime of tay ; 
 Und de on4y ding der Brcitmann need 
 
 To pe of any use, 
 Yas shoost to dell to afery mans 
 
 He's soundt oopon der coose. 
 
 TJud ash dis little fraso berhops 
 
 Yas nod do oos bckannt, 
 He dakes de liberdy do make 
 
 Dat ve shall oondershtand, 
 Und voiildt tell a liddle shdory 
 
 Yitch dook blaee pefore de wars : 
 Here der Briotmann nod to Trina, 
 
 Und she bass aroundt cigars. 
 
 " Id ish a longe dime, now here, 
 
 In Bennsylvanien's Shtate, 
 All in der down of Ilorrisburg 
 
 Dere rosed a vieree depate, 
 'Tween vamilies mit cooses, 
 
 Und dose vhere none vere foundt — 
 If cooses might, by common law, 
 
 Go sq[uanderin' aroundt ? 
 
 ^' Dose who vere nod pe-gifted 
 
 Mit cooses, und vere poor. 
 All shvear de law forbid di;i crime, 
 
 Py shings, und cerdain sure ; 
 But de coose-holdors teklare a coose 
 
 Greadt liberdy tid need, 
 Und to pen dem oop vas gruel, 
 
 Und a mosdt oon-Christian teed. 
 
" Unci denn anoder party ' ^ 
 
 Idself tid soon refeal, 
 Of arisdograts who kepd no cooso, 
 
 Pecause 'tvas not shendcel : 
 Toy tid not vish de splodderin geese 
 
 Shouldt on deir pafemends bass, 
 So dcy choined do anti-coosers, 
 
 Or de oondcr lower glass !" 
 
 
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 Here Breitmann led his shdeam out: 
 
 " Dis shdory goes to show 
 Dat in poledicks, ash lager, 
 . Virtus in medio. 
 De drecks ish ad de pottom — 
 
 De skoom floads high in teed ; 
 Boot das bier ish in de mittle, 
 
 Saj's an goot eld Sherman lied. 
 
 *' Und shoost apout elecdion-dimes 
 Do scoom und drecks, ve see, 
 Hafe a puUy Wahl-verwandtschaft, 
 Or elecdion-sympathie." 
 " Dis is very vine," says Mishder Twine, 
 " Yot here you indroduce : 
 Mit your bermission, I'll grack on 
 Mit my shdory of de coose. 
 
 " A gandertate for sheriff 
 
 De coose-beholders run, 
 Who shvoar de coose de noblest dings 
 
 Yot valk pcneat de sun ; 
 For de cooses safe de Capidol 
 
 In Rome long dimes ago, 
 Und Horrisburg need safin 
 
 Mighty pad, ash all do know. 
 
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 " Acainsd dis mighdy Coosc-man 
 
 Anoder veller rose, 
 Who keepedt himself ungommon shtill 
 
 Von odors came to plows ; 
 Und if any ask how 'tvas ho shtoodt, 
 
 His vriends vouldt vink so loose, 
 Und vispor ash dey dapped deir nose : 
 
 ' He's soundt oopon de coose ! 
 
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 He's O. K. oopon de soobject ; 
 
 Shoost pet your pile on dat ; 
 On dis bartik'ler quesdion 
 
 He intends to coot it fjit.' 
 So de veller cot elcgded 
 
 Pefore de beople foundt 
 On vitch site of der coose it vas 
 
 He shtick so awful soundt. 
 
 « Dis shdory's all I hafo to dell," 
 
 Says Mishder Hiram Twine ; 
 " Und I advise Herr Breitraann 
 
 Shoost to vight id on dis line." 
 • De volk who of dese boledics 
 
 Would Oder shapters read, 
 Moost waiten for de segondt pardt 
 
 Of dis here Brietmann's Lied. 
 
IV.-Hfiow Breitmann and Schmit were 
 Reported to be Log-RoUing. 
 
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 ID hapiienct in do yar of craco, 
 Yon all deso dings pegan, 
 Dat Mishder Schmit, tho shap who rooned 
 Acainsd dor Breitemann, 
 Yas a man who look like Mishder Twino 
 
 So moosh dat beoples say 
 Dey pliefe dey moost ge-brudert pe — 
 Gott weiss in vot a vay ! 
 
 Und id vas also moosh bc-marked — 
 
 Yitch look shoost like a bruder — 
 Dat ven Twine vas vork on any side 
 
 Der Schmit vas on do odor : 
 A feiy gommon dodge ish dis 
 
 Mit de arisdocracie ; 
 So dat votefor caidt toorns oop, 
 
 Id's game for de familie I 
 
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 Nnn, goot! Ilowefor dis mighdt pc, 
 
 'Tvas cerdain on dis hit 
 Dor Twino vas do his teufelcst 
 
 To euchre Mishder Schmit; 
 Und Schmit, I criefo to say, oxgl aimed : 
 
 " Goll darn me for a fool. 
 But I'll smash old Dutch to cholera fits 
 
 Und rake de eternal pool !" 
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 So (ley cot some liddle leddors, 
 
 Ash bi'ivatc ash couldt pe, 
 Vitch Breitmami writed long agono 
 
 To frieiidts in Germany ; 
 Und doy brinted dem in ctcry vay 
 
 To make do beoples laugh, 
 Und comment on dem in de shtyle 
 
 Dat "sports" call " slashcr-gaif. 
 
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 Dere to—as vash known py shoodshment 
 
 Und glearly ascerdaind, 
 Dat Breitmann hafe lossed money 
 
 Py a valse und schvvindlin friend — 
 So dey roon it troo de newsbapevs, 
 
 Und sh beech do make pegan, 
 Jki'i Breitmann shtole de gelt himself 
 
 Und rop der oder man. 
 
 Boot de ding dat jam de hardest 
 
 On de men dat bull do vires, 
 Und showed dac Capdain Breitmann 
 
 Shtood pedween dwo heafy vires, 
 Yas, pecause he vas a soldier— 
 
 Vot couldt see id at a clause— 
 Dey had pud him in a tisdrigt 
 
 There he hadn't half a shanse. 
 
 For ash de pold solidaten 
 
 Ish more prafe ash oder mans, 
 Dey moost lead de hope verloren 
 
 Und pattle in do vans ; 
 Und ash defeat is honoraple 
 
 To men in honor shtrict, 
 Dey honor dem py putten em 
 
 Vhcre dey'ro cerdain to pc licked. 
 
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 Boot (.lis dimes it shioppcd over, ., 
 
 Tvas do dird or secondt boat 
 Dat a soldier in dis tisdrigt 
 
 Had been put oop und boat : 
 So do Plue Goats dink it over 
 
 Und go quietly to vork : 
 Do bow von too moosb aufgospannt 
 
 Vlies packvvard mit a yerk. 
 
 Now Mishder Twine doglaret on dis 
 
 Do ding seemed doubtenfuU, 
 But mitout delay lie dook do horns 
 
 So poldlypydo bull, 
 Und shpread do shdory eferyvhere, 
 
 Dill folk to pliofc pegan, 
 Dat Mishder Schmit had sold de vight 
 
 Unto dor Broitemann ! 
 
 He fix de liddlo tedails — 
 
 How moosh der Scnmit hafe got 
 For sellin out his barty 
 
 To let Breitmann haul do pot ; 
 Und he showed a brifate ledder 
 
 From Broitemann to Schmit, 
 Vhere ho broinise him for Congress 
 
 If he shoost let oop a bit. 
 
 Der Twine vas writet dis ledder; 
 
 For der Copitain Broitemann 
 Vould nefer hafe shtood soosh hoompoogks 
 
 Since virst his life pegan ; 
 He hat tone some rough dings in der war, 
 
 In de ploondor-und-morder line, 
 Boot vas hoockolporry-persimmoned 
 
 Mit dose boledics of Twine. 
 
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 Howefcr, ilis lecUlcr vorkot foorst-radc— 
 
 Mit do Merigans post of all, 
 For dey mostly dinked it do naturalost ding 
 
 As cfor couldt pefall ; 
 For to shcat von's own gonstitucnts 
 
 Ish do pest mofc in do came, 
 Und dey nefcr sooposcd a Dootchmau 
 
 Ilafo de sense to do do same. 
 
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 Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, 
 Ash all oov lis may learn, 
 Boot may Hhango from dark to lightood, 
 If look should dako a doom ; 
 So it happonet mit Breitmann, 
 
 Who in shpito of sin und Schmit, 
 Gontrificd ad shoost dis yooncturo 
 Do make a glucky hit. 
 
 
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 Doy hat sendet out some plackarts 
 
 To de Deutsche buergers all, 
 (N. B. — Dish ish not mean plackarts, 
 
 Boot de pills dey shtiek on do vail,) 
 To say dat a MassenversanVmlung — 
 
 Or a mceding of all de masses — 
 Vould be held in de Arboiter-Halle, 
 
 To consisd of do Sharman classes. 
 
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 Now dcy gife de brintin of de pills 
 
 To a new gekommene man. 
 Who dinked dat Demokratisch 
 
 Yas de same ash Eepooblican : 
 (lott in Ilimmel weiss vhere ho hid himself 
 
 On dish free Coloompian shore, 
 Dat he scaped de natnralizationisds, 
 
 Un<l hadn't fouiidt out pefore. 
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 Boot to ilis Doulsehc briiiter, 
 
 I)o only tittenvnc'o ho 
 Petwoon Ilopooblic'unish 
 
 Und iJomoknitlKC'li tid see, 
 Vas (lat von vusli clwo U'dders longer; 
 
 So ho (look shoost vol Hconi pat 
 To mako do ])()sler handsome — 
 
 Likewise a liddle fat. 
 
 How oiUon in <lis bii/zliu life 
 
 Small grubs grow ooj) to viiigs ! 
 How oidon nhoosl from moostard seet 
 
 A vivHt-glass pusincss shprings ! 
 Vant lileln komt men toft yroote 
 
 Ash do Hollanders hafo said: 
 Mit desc dwo Icdders Hroitcmann 
 
 Cavc('l in dor Scdimilsy's head. 
 
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 Ois tale dat Schmit hafe sett de vight, 
 Cot 80 much ])ut apcut 
 Dat many of hiH bcoplos vore 
 In fery tupioiis toubt ; 
 'Pove all, dose who were on de make, 
 
 And easy change deir lodge, 
 Und, pein awfool smart demHclts, 
 Peliove in every dodge. 
 
 Vhon do meeding vas gesempled, • 
 
 Und dey found no Schmit vas dcre, 
 IdG^^Y looket at von anoder 
 
 Mit a ganz erstauniahed air ; 
 But dey saw it glear as tpylight, 
 
 Und around a vink deio ran, 
 Yen pefore dem rose de shiant f^rni 
 
 Of Oopitaiii Breitcmann ! 
 
 Den Brcitemann vent los at dem : 
 
 "He could nichts well exbress 
 Do rapdure dat bcsqueezed his hearts — 
 
 De wo!)nevol hopj^ness — 
 To meed in friondlijh council 
 
 And glasp do b:ind of dose 
 Who had pcen mit most oonrcason 
 
 Und uiiKMidtly galled his foes. 
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 BcrhapB o'er all (lis Klimilin oart' ■- 
 
 Ho voukl say it derc and don — 
 Soosh shpcedao-lcH couldt nod po .seen 
 
 Of soosh imbartial men, 
 So totbid of pase sospieion, , 
 
 So apove all betty ilricks, 
 Asii to yome iind lisden vairly 
 
 To a voc in poicdicks ; 
 
 " Dat ish to !*ay, a ;io-galled voo — 
 For ho tooled id in hib soul 
 Dat de brinciples vitch moled dem 
 Vere do same oopon dc whole ; 
 Dut he lack a vord to cxbrosB dera 
 
 In maimers opportiines— " 
 Here a veller in de gallery 
 Gry oud, oonkindly, " Shpoons !'' 
 
 Und dere der Breitmann gop))led him 
 
 ^'l^shpoojis our niodifes pe, 
 Dere's not a man peforo oos 
 
 Who loosed a shpoon by me : 
 Far rader had 1 give you all 
 
 A Hhpoons to eaten mit, 
 find I hope to get a ladle for 
 
 Mine, iriendt, der Misder Schnii.t." 
 
 Dis fetch das Ilaus like doomler-- 
 
 It raised der toufelV dust, 
 Und for sefen-lefen minudes 
 
 Dey oo])hiuded on a bust ; 
 Und de blokoH dat dinked of hedgin 
 
 Saw a rig as round as O ; 
 So uey boked cash odor in de rips, 
 
 ^Und said, " I dold you so!" 
 
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 For dis d'lusion to de ladle 
 
 Vat as glear ash city milk, 
 Und drawd it on de beoples 
 
 So vine ash flossen silk, 
 Dat Ilans und Schmit verc rollin locks, 
 
 Und de locks were ready cut ; 
 Only Breitmann hafe de liddlc end, 
 
 Und Schmitsy dakc de butt! 
 
 Don Breitmann he crack onward : 
 
 " If any 'lightened man 
 Will sceken in his Bibcl, 
 
 He'll find dat a publican 
 Is a barty ash sells lager ; 
 
 Und das ding is ferry blain, 
 Dat a ?'e-publican ish von 
 
 AVho sells id 'gain und 'gain. 
 
 " Now since dat I sells lager, 
 
 I jjant aijreen mit 
 De demprance brinciples I hear 
 
 Dislriputet to Schmit; 
 Boot dis I dells you vairl}-, 
 
 Und no one to teseife — 
 If I were Schmit, I'd pliefen 
 
 Shoost vot (ler Schmit peliefe. 
 
 "And to mine Sherman, liperal friends 
 
 I might mention in dis shpot 
 Dat I hear an oonfoundet rumor 
 
 Dat der Schmit peliefe in Grott ; 
 Und also dat he coos to shooi'sh — 
 
 ^lit a prayer-book for salvudion: 
 I vould not for die wolt sav^ dings 
 
 To hoort his repudadion. 
 
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 "TJnd nodin is inoi'e likely 
 
 Dat it all a shlandor pc, 
 So also do rumor dat ven young 
 
 He shtoooy divinidy : 
 I myself, ash a publican, 
 
 Moost pe a sinner by fate, 
 Und in dis sense I denounce mj'sclf 
 
 Ash a Re-publi-candidate ! 
 
 "TTnd dat ve may meed in gomnion, 
 
 I declare here in dis hall — 
 Und I shvears mineself to hold to it, 
 
 Fotelor may pefall — 
 Dm any man who gifes me his fote — 
 
 Votevefer his boledicks pe — 
 Shall alfai/s pr regartet 
 
 Ash holUUgal friendt jiy mey 
 
 (Dis voonderfol condescension 
 
 Pring down drementous applause, 
 ITnd dose who catch de nod ion 
 
 Gife most derriple hooraws ; 
 Eshbecially some Amerigans 
 
 Ash vas shtanding near de door, 
 Und who in all deir leben long 
 
 Xefer heard so moosh sense pcforc.) 
 
 "Dose ish de briiicibles I holts, 
 
 And dose in vilch 1 rui : 
 Dey ish fixed firm and immutaple 
 
 Ash te course of'de 'tcrnal sun ; 
 Boot if you ton't abbrove of dem— 
 
 B lease nod ice vot I say — 
 I shall only pe too hap]iy 
 
 To alder dem right afay. 
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 " Und unto m}' Dcmogratic friondts 
 
 I voiild very glearly shtato — 
 Sint'O dis useless rnit oo])-gec'leai"6d minds 
 
 To hold a long depate — 
 Dat dere's no man in do cidj 
 
 Dat sells bcsser liquor ash I, 
 TJnJ I shtand do treadts/ree ijmdiis 
 
 Vhencr-^r mine f'riendts ish try. 
 
 "Adfinem — in do ende — 
 
 I moost mcndion do you all, 
 Dat a dootzen parrels of lager bier 
 
 Ish a-L'omin to dis hall : 
 Dere ish none of mine own barty liei'e, 
 Boot we'll do mitout deir holfs^ ; 
 ITnd I kess, on de whole, 'twill pe whoostso goofc, 
 If ve trink it all ourselfo." 
 
 Soosh drcmentous up-lo>idation 
 
 Pefore was nefer seen. 
 Ash dey shvored dat Coi)itan Ereitmann 
 
 Vas a briek-pat, and no sardine ; 
 Und doy trinked demselfs besotfen, 
 
 Sayin, " Hope you wird sookcecd !" — 
 De nexter theil will pe de Oki; 
 
 Of dis historisch lied. 
 
Vn.— The Author Asserts the Vast Intel- 
 lectual Superiority of Germans to 
 Americans. 
 
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 Dere's a liddlo fact in hishdoiy 
 Vich few hafo ooiulerstarul — 
 Bat de Deiitsohers are, <le jure, 
 Do owners of dis land ; 
 Und I brides mineself unspeakbarly 
 
 Dat I foorst make be-known 
 De primor (ial cause dat Colunipus 
 y^as derivet from Cologne ; 
 
 For asli his name vas Colon, 
 
 It fisibly does shine 
 Dat his elders are geboren been 
 
 In Co-logne on dor Rhein ; 
 Und Colon ia ]^ein a colony, 
 
 It sehr bemarkbar ist 
 Dat Columbus in America 
 
 Was der firster colonist. 
 
 Und ash Columbus is a tofe, 
 
 Id is wort de droj)le to mark 
 Dat a bidL'eon foorst tiscofered land 
 
 A-vlyin from ile ark ; 
 Und shtill widei- — in de peginnin, 
 
 Mitout de least est toubt, 
 A tofe vas vly ofer de wassers 
 
 Und pring de vorldt herout. 
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 Ash mine goot oldt teacher der Krcutzer 
 
 To me tid often shbetik, 
 De mythus of name rebeats idself 
 
 (Vich ve see in his SpnboUk ;) 
 So also de name America, 
 
 If ve a liddle look, 
 Vas coom from de oldt King* Emerich 
 
 In de Deutsche Heldenbuch. 
 
 Und id vas from dat fery Heldenbuch — 
 
 How voonderful id run ! — 
 Dat I shdole de " Song of Hildebrand, 
 
 Or der A''ater und der Son," 
 Und dishtripute it to Breitmann, 
 
 For a reason vitch now ish plain, 
 Dat dis Sagen-Cyclus, full-endet, 
 
 Pring me round to der Hans again ! 
 
 Dese laws of un-endlv un-wigi>;lin 
 
 Ish so teep und broad und tall, 
 Dat nopody boot a Deittscher 
 
 Have a het to vcrsteli dem at all; 
 Und should 1 write mine dinks all oud, 
 
 I ton't i^eliefe, indeed, 
 Dat I mineself vould versteh de half 
 
 Of dis here Brietmannslied. 
 
 Ash de Hegel say of his system, 
 
 Dat only von mans knew 
 Yot der teufel id meandt, und he eould't tell ; 
 
 Und der Jean Paul Eichter too, 
 Who said, "(rott knows I meant somedings 
 
 When foorst dis bucli I writ, 
 Boot Gott only wise vot de l»uch means now, 
 
 Vor I have vei'ii'otten it." 
 
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 And all of dis be-wiscs 
 
 (So blain twh de fjico on your nose, 
 Dat dor Deiitscher liafo cfcn more intellects, 
 
 Dan ho himself sooposc ; 
 Und hia tifference mit de over-again vorldt, 
 
 Ash I really do soospect, 
 Ish dat oder volk hafe more soopose, 
 
 Und lesser intellect. 
 
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 Yet ooprightly I gonfess it — 
 
 Mitout ashkin vhy or vhence — 
 Dere ish also dimes vhen Americans 
 
 Ilafe ge-shown sharp-pointed sense; 
 Und a fery outsigned oxsamplo 
 
 Of genius in dis line, 
 Yas dishblayed in dis elegdion, 
 
 By Mishder Hiram Twine. 
 
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VIIL— Showing How Mr. Hiram Twiue 
 '^Played off" on Smith. 
 
 VIDE LICET : Derc vas a fillai^^o 
 Whoso vodo alono vouldt po 
 Apout ciioof to elcgdt a man, 
 Und gife a n)a3'ority ; 
 So do von who couUlt scoop dis scddlcmcnt 
 
 Vould make a pull}' hit ; 
 Boot dough doy voro Deutsehci's, von und all, 
 Dey all go von on Sehmit. 
 
 Kow it happcnot to gonio to bass 
 
 Dat in gis liddle town 
 Do Deutsch vas all exshpegdin 
 
 Dat Mishder Sehmit coom down, 
 His brinciplos to forc-sotzen 
 
 Und his ideos to doaeh, 
 (Dat is, fix oop do brifate pargains) 
 
 Und tolifor a pooblic sboooh. 
 
 Now Twino vas a gj^rotwistive cuss, 
 
 Ash blainly ish peon shown, 
 Und vas alfays an out-find in 
 
 Votefcr might po known ; 
 Und mit some of his circums windlcs 
 
 Ho fix do matter so 
 Dat he'd po himself at dis meetin 
 
 Und SCO how dings vas go. 
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 Oh ,shtruii,ii,'t'ly in (|;>, Iol»oii 
 
 J)o (lini^s kits vorked apout! 
 Oh voonderly Fortiinu 
 
 Makes toorn u.s insitc out ! 
 Oh sinkuhu- do luck-wheol rolls! 
 
 Dis liddlo inocdinir doro 
 Fixt Twino (U/ ptrpe/u/icuhim — 
 
 Shoost suit iiiin to a hair! 
 
 Now it ho])})onit <;ii dis efbiiin 
 
 De Doutschers, von und all, 
 Vere avaitiu init iiiij)atienco 
 
 Do open in of do Uill ; 
 TJnd do shatos of nin» voro fallin 
 
 Und do shdai's be^-in to plink, 
 Und dey vish dat Sehniit vouldt lioory, 
 
 For d'vas dime to dako a trink. 
 
 Dcy hoar some hoofs a-dramplin, 
 
 Und doy saw, und dinked dey knowcd, 
 Dor brotty greature coomin, 
 
 On his horse aloui^- do road ; 
 Und ash he ride town in-ward 
 
 I)e likeness vas so blain, 
 Dey donnered out, •' Hooray for Schniit!" 
 
 F^noug'h to make it rain. 
 
 Der Twine vas shtart like plazes ; 
 
 Boot oopshtarted, too his wit, 
 Und he dinks, " Groat Turnips ! >vhnt if I 
 
 Couldt bass for Colonel 8chmit? 
 Gaul dcrn my heels ! 77/ do it, 
 
 Und ij,'o do total swine ! 
 Oh, Soap-balls ! what a ehnnee !" said dis 
 
 Dissembu latin Twine. 
 
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 Donn 'tvas '< WillUoinni ! willkotnin, MLshdor 
 Sehniit !" 
 
 Rin^sroom on of'oiy .site ; 
 Uiid " F()or.st-rato ! IIow dy-do yourself?" 
 
 Dor IJirjim Twine rci)licd. 
 Doy ashk him, " ('Omo nnd (lake a trink?" 
 
 But dey find it niii>;hdy queer 
 Yen Twine informs dem none boot hogti 
 
 Vouldt trink dat !slifiid<in bier; 
 
 Dat all lager vas nodin^H boot boison ; 
 
 IJiul ash for Sherman we in, 
 lie dinks It vas erlbunden 
 
 Exshbrossly for Sherman sehwein ; 
 Dat he liimself vas a demj)C'ranceler — 
 
 Dat he gloria in de name; 
 V\k\ atfise dem all, fiu* tecency's sake, 
 
 To go und do de same. 
 
 Desc bemarks among de Deutscdicrs 
 
 Vcre apout ash veil reccifo 
 Ash a eats in a game of den-bins, 
 
 Ash you ma}' of ooorsc peliefo: 
 De heat of de reeej)tioii 
 
 Vent down a doot/en tegrees, 
 Und in place of hurraws dere vas only heardt 
 
 Do rooslin of de drees. 
 
 Und so in solemn stille 
 
 Dey scorched him to de hall, 
 Yhero he maket do oradion 
 
 Vitch vas so moosh to bicase dem all; 
 Und dis vay he pegin it : 
 
 " Pefore I furder go, 
 I vish dat my obinions 
 
 Yon puddin-het Dootch should know. 
 
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 *' Und ere I norate to you, 
 
 J think it only fail" 
 Wo nhoiild ()ondurHtun(l*cjicli other 
 
 I'rozuetly, chunk and square. 
 Doro are boijits on vhich ve tiHagroo, 
 
 And I vill phmk do facts — 
 I don't go round nhingandorin 
 
 My friend tH puhind dcir packs. 
 
 "So I beg you dake it easy 
 
 If on do raw 1 touch, 
 Vhen 1 say I can't apido do sound 
 
 Of your groontin, shi-shing Dutch. 
 Should I in de Lcgisladuro 
 
 As your slumgullion shtand, 
 I'll have a bill forbidding Butcli 
 
 Troo all dis 'versal land. 
 
 " Should a husband talk it to his frau, 
 
 To deaf ho should pe led ; 
 If a mutter breat' it to her shild, 
 
 I'd bunch her in de head ; 
 Und I'm sure dat none vill atfocato 
 
 Ids use in public schools, 
 Ooidess dey're peastly, nashdy, prutal, 
 
 Sauel-kraut-oatin vooLs. 
 
 Here Mishder Twine, to gadder breat, 
 
 Shoost made a liddle pause, 
 Und see sechs hundert gapin eyes, 
 
 Sechs hundert shdarin chaws, 
 Dey shtanden erstarrt like frozen ; 
 
 A^ou faindly dried to hiss ; 
 Und von set : " ish it 8hlee])s I'm treamin ? 
 
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 Twino koptot von eyo on do vindow, 
 
 Boot poldly went aliet: 
 " Of your t der slrtinkin hobits 
 
 No vordt ncedt heir pe set. 
 Slitop goozlin bier — shtop shmokin bipcs- 
 
 Slitop rootin in do mire ; 
 Und shoost un-Dutcliify yourselfs : 
 
 Dut's all dat I require." 
 
 Und dmxt dere coomed a shindy 
 
 Ash if do cihky hat trop: 
 " Trow him mit ecks, py doonder! 
 
 Go shlog him on do kop ! 
 Hei ! Shoot him mit a powie-knifos ; 
 
 Go for liim, ganz and gar ! 
 Shoost tar him mit some fodders ! 
 
 Led's fodder him mit tar !" 
 
 Sooch a toufel's row of furio 
 
 Vas nefer oop-kickt before : 
 Soom roosh to on-climb de blatform— : 
 
 Soom hoory to fasten to toor: 
 Von vellcr vired his refolfer, 
 
 Boot do pullet missed her mark : 
 She coot do cort of de shandelior : 
 
 It voll, und de hall vas tark ! 
 
 Oh veil was it for Hiram Twine 
 
 Dat nimply he couldt shoomp ; 
 Und veil dat he light on a misthauf, 
 
 Und nefer feel do boomp ; 
 Und veil for him dat his goot cray horse 
 
 Shtood sattled shoost outside ; 
 Und voll dat in an augenblick 
 
 He vas off on a toufel's ride. 
 
BanjLC ! bao^r ! Je ^hai-p plHtolen shots 
 
 Vent pipin py hi.s ear, > - 
 
 Boot he tortled ooj) do barrick road 
 
 Like any mountain deer: 
 Dey trowed der Hiram Twine mit nhteins, 
 
 But dey only coukl be-mark 
 Von cllmpse of hi.s vliite obercoadt, 
 
 Und a clotterin in do tark. 
 
 So dey all vcrsembled to-^^eder, 
 
 Ein ander to Hprcchen mit, 
 Und allow dat sooeh a rode 
 
 Bey nefer exshpegd from Schmit— 
 Dat he vas a Iborst-glass plaekguard, 
 
 And so pig a Lump ash ran ; 
 So, neminc contnulicente, 
 
 Dey vented for Breitcmann. 
 
 Und 'tvas annerthalb yar dereafter. 
 
 Before der Sc-hmit vas know 
 Vot maket dis rural fiJIage 
 
 Go pack oopon him so ; 
 Und he schvored at do Dootch more schlimmer 
 
 Ash Hiram Twine had tone. 
 Nota bene : He tid it in earnesht, 
 
 Vhile Hiram's vas pusiness fun. 
 
 Boot vhen Breitmann heard de shdory 
 
 How do tillage hat peon drickcd. 
 Ho shvore bei Leib und Leben 
 
 He'd rader hafo peen licked, 
 Dan 1)0 hclpet bei soosh shumgoozlin; 
 
 Und 'tvas petter to pe a schwcin 
 Dan a echwindlin honeyfooglin shnakc, 
 
 Like dat lyin Yankee Twine. 
 
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 Und i)ogot m hcafy disgoosted 
 
 Mit de boledicks of dis land, 
 Dat his friendts couldn't barely keep him 
 
 From trowin cop his hand, 
 Vhen ho belt shtraidt flush, mit an aco in his 
 poot ; 
 
 Vich phrase ish all do same, 
 In de science of de pokerology, 
 
 Ash if ho got de game. 
 
 So Breitmann cot elegtet, 
 
 Py vollowin de vay 
 Dey manage de elegdions 
 
 Unto dis fery day ; 
 Vitch shows do Deutsch Dununelcrlichkeit, 
 
 Also do Yankee " wit ;" 
 Das ist das Abenteuer 
 
 How Breitmann lick der Schmit. 
 
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CONTENTS. 
 
 I'AdK, 
 
 BREITMANN'S (JOING TO ClirilClI 97 
 
 THE FIRST EDITION OF KllEITMANN, SHOWING 
 HOW AND WHY IT WAS THAT IT NEVER 
 
 APPEARED. FIRSDT PARDT, .... 1^8 
 
 SECONDT PARDT >!" 
 
 I GILI ROMANESKRO. A GIPSY BALLAD. THE 
 
 ARGUMENT ^^^ 
 
 THE BALLAD "^ 
 
 STEINLI VON SLANG. A BALLAD. FIRSDT PARDT, 118 
 
 SECONDT PARDT ^20 
 
 THIRDT PARDT, ^23 
 
 TO A FRIEND STUDYING GERAiAN '-5 
 
 LOVE SONG '-^^ 
 
 GLOSSARY ^"^'^ 
 
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Breitmann's Going to Church. 
 
 " Vides iffitur, Collega carissime, vmtationem cc.nonicam esse rem 
 hand ita periodomm, ml vulde amcennm, si modo vinim, groggio, et 
 cibipraeato 8hm<." •_ 
 
 iNovismme Epistohr. Obscnrorum Virorum- Jl^rlini, F. Berg- 
 ^oW, 18G9. yi>s<o^«xxiii./^. 63.] 
 
 D'VAS near do Stiite of Nashtille, 
 In do town of Tennessee, 
 Der Broitmann vonce vas quurderd 
 Mit all his cavallrio. 
 Der Sheneral kept him glose in camp, 
 
 Ho vouldn't let dem go, 
 Dey couldn't shdeal de first plack hen, 
 Or make de red cock crow. 
 
 Und virst der Broitmann vildly shmiled, 
 Und denn he madly shvore : 
 "■ Crate h— 1 mit shpoons und shinsherbread 1 
 Can dis pe makin war ? 
 Yerdammt pe all der discipline ; 
 
 Vordammt der Sheneral : 
 Vere I vonce on de road, his will 
 Were Wurst mir und egal. 
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 "Oh vhero inh nil do plaziii roofs 
 
 Dat claddoncd voticc mine eyes, 
 Und vhore do erand blantanchioim 
 
 Vhoro vo gaddorod many a brize ? 
 Und vhcrc do ])lastcd shpios vo hung 
 
 A hoNvlin loud mit fear; 
 Und vhoro do niHcal piiHh-whackors 
 
 Vo shashod like vritonod door. 
 
 " Do I'oofs aro nhtandin fast und firm 
 
 Mit rej)clH blottin oonder j 
 Do crand bUmtaschions lie round loose 
 
 For Morgan's mon to jiloonder; 
 ])o slipies go valkin out und in, 
 
 Ash sassy ash can po, 
 Und in do\oods do push-whackers 
 
 Aro makin foon of mo I 
 
 ' O, voro 1 on ray schimmel gro}', 
 
 Moin sabre in mcin hand, 
 Dcy should drack mo py do ruins 
 
 Of do houses troo do land. 
 ])oy should drack mo py do puzzards 
 
 High sailen ofer head, 
 A vollowin dor Brcitmann's trail, 
 
 To claw do ropol dead." 
 
 Outspoke dor bold Von Stossenhoim, 
 
 "Who had thdorios of Gott : 
 " O Breitman dis ish shoodgemcnt on 
 
 Do vays dat you hafe trot 
 You only lifes to joy yourself, 
 
 Yet 3'ou yourself moost say 
 Dat solf-devolopmeut requires 
 
 Do r^ligios Idee." 
 
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 Poy sot <lcm down iiml nr«jjiiO(.l it, 
 
 Liko Doutschers vroo IVuin fear, 
 Dill tU-y wchmoko ten pfbunds of IvniiHtcr 
 
 Und drinkod drci fh'^H of bier. 
 Dor Uroitmann >f() \)y Schopenhauer, 
 
 Boot Vcit he hml him donn, 
 ¥ov he dook him on de angles 
 
 Of do moral oxygon. 
 
 Dor Breitmann 'low dat 'pentenee 
 
 Isii known in eferj' glime, 
 Und dat to grin und bear it 
 
 A^'as healty und sooplime. 
 " For mino Sout Sherman (.'atoliks 
 
 Id vas pc goot I know, 
 Likoviso deni Kordland Lutdrans, 
 
 Jf vonco to nhoorsh dey go. 
 
 " Boot how vas id mit oders 
 
 Who dinks philosophie ? 
 I don't begreif dc matter — " 
 
 Said Stossonheim : " Donn see 
 Dc more dat Shoorsh disgoostct you, 
 
 Und make despise und bain, 
 De crater merid isli to go, 
 
 Und de crater ish your gain. 
 
 " I know a liddlc shoorsh mineself 
 
 Oopon de Bole Jack road ; 
 (Do robs vonco shot dree Federals dere 
 
 Ash into shoorsh dey good.) 
 Dere you might make a bilcrimage, 
 
 Und do it in a tay : — 
 Gott only knows vot dings you might 
 
 Bick oop, oopon do vay." 
 
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 Don uop doro shpoko a eontrnpand, 
 
 VttH at do tout id's toor : 
 " Dcro's twoiity bnr'ls of whisky hid 
 
 In dut tftbornaclo — shore ! 
 A robol ho done /jfono and put 
 
 It in do ceihu* tnio ; 
 Nalibin man dat secret knows 
 
 'Copt only me an' you." 
 
 Dor Stoascnhoim ho grossed himself 
 
 Und knelt pesido do Ibnee, 
 Und,gricd : " O Coptain Breitmann, see, 
 
 Die finger Providence." 
 Dor Breitmann droed his hat afay : 
 
 Saj's ho, " Pe't hit or miss, 
 I'fe heard of miragles pefore, 
 
 Boot none so hunk ash dis. 
 
 " Wohl auf, mine pully cafaliers, 
 
 Vo'll ride to shoorsh to-day ! 
 Each man ash hasn't cot a horse, 
 
 Moost shtcal von, rite afay. 
 Dero's a raw, green corps from Michigan, 
 
 Mit horses on do loose ; 
 You men ash vants some hoof-irons, 
 
 Look out und crip deir shoes !" 
 
 All brooshed und fixed, do cavallrie 
 
 Rode out py moonen-shine ; 
 Do cotton fields in shimmerin light 
 
 Lay white ash elfenbein. 
 Dey beared a shot close py Lavcrgne, 
 
 Und men who rode afay. 
 In de road a-velterin in his ploot 
 
 A Federal picket lay. 
 
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 Und all (lilt ho hafo dimoH to say : 
 
 " Vhilo whtandin at my post, 
 J)o guerillas ^ot Hrst shot at me ;" 
 
 Und so gate oop do ghost. 
 Dcnn a contrapaml, who holt his head, 
 
 Said : " Sah— dose grllloi-H all, 
 Is only half a mile from hyar, 
 
 A daneiii at a pall." 
 
 Dor EroUmann nhpoke, und brum mod it out 
 
 Ash if his heart lid schvoll, 
 •' I'll gifo dom musie at dat pall , 
 
 Vill tantz dom indo holl!" 
 IIq[ — arrow-fu8t — a loufors ride ! 
 
 Do placU man led do vay ; 
 Doy reach do house— doy see do lights— 
 
 Doy hoard do li<ldlo blay. 
 
 TfGy nefcr vaitod for a word, 
 
 Boot galloped from do gloom, 
 Und bany /—a hoondord earpino shots 
 
 Doy firod into do room. 
 Oop vent do groans of vountot nu'n. 
 
 Do fittlin died avay ; 
 Boot some of dom vere toad before 
 
 Do music ceased to blay. 
 
 Dcnn crack und smack ooom scatterin shots 
 
 Troo vindow und troo door, 
 Boot bang und clang do Germans gifo 
 xVnoder volley more. 
 «' Dore— let 'cm shlide. Right file, to shoorsli l" 
 
 Aloudt do orders ran. 
 « I kess I paid dom for dat shot !"' 
 Shpeak grim dor Breilomann. 
 
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 All roscn rod de mornin fair 
 
 Shone gaily o'er de hill, 
 All violet plue de shky crew teep 
 
 In rif'er, pond iind rill. 
 All cloudy gvey de limeshtone rocks 
 
 Coom oop troo diinmerin wood ; 
 All shnowy vite in mornin light 
 
 J)e shoornh pcfore deni shtood. 
 
 " Xow loudet veil de Organ oop, 
 
 To drill niit Holenin fear ; 
 IJnd ring also dat Lumpenglock, 
 
 To pring de beoplcs here. 
 Und if it prings guerillas down, 
 
 Yo'll gife dem, p}' do Lord ! 
 De low mass of de sabre, und 
 
 l5e high mass of de cord ! 
 
 " Du Eberle aus Freiburg, 
 
 Du bist ein Musikant. 
 Top-sawyer on de counter-point 
 
 Und buster in di scant. 
 To dec do soul of music 
 
 All innerly ish known, 
 l)ii canst mit might fullendcn 
 
 De art of orgel-ton. 
 
 " ])erofore a Miserere 
 
 Vilt dou, be-ghostot, spiel ; 
 Und vake, re-rnis-jd yearn in. 
 
 Also a holy feel : — 
 Po referent, men — rememper 
 
 Dis ish a Gotteshaus — 
 Du, Conrad, — go along do aisles, 
 
 Und schenk de whisky aus !" 
 
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 Doy blay crato dings from Mozart, 
 
 Beethoven und Mehul, 
 Mit chorals of Sebastian Bach, 
 
 Sooplimc und peaiidifal. 
 Der Breitmann feel like holy saints, 
 
 Do tears roon down his fuss, 
 Und he sopped out: " Gott verdammich— tlis 
 
 1st wahros Kunstgenuss 1" 
 
 Der Eberlo blayed oop so high 
 
 He make de rafters i-ing. 
 T>er Eberle blayed lower, und 
 
 Ye heardt der Breitmann sing, 
 Like a dronin wind in piney woods, 
 
 Like a nightly moanin sea, 
 Ash ho d inked on Sonntags long agonc 
 
 Vhen a poy in Germany. 
 
 Und louder und mit louder tone 
 
 High oop de orgel bio wed, 
 Und plentifuUer efer yet 
 
 Around de whisky goed. 
 Dey singed ash if mit singin dey 
 
 Might indo Ilimmel win :— 
 I dink in all dis lard soosh shprecs 
 
 Ash yet hafe nefer peon. 
 
 Vhen in de Abendsonnenschein, 
 
 Mit doost-cloudts troo de door, 
 AH plack ash night in goldnca lighdt 
 
 Dere shtood ein scwartzer Mohr. 
 Dat contrapand so wild und weh, 
 
 Mit eye-palls glarin round, 
 Und cried : " For Gott's sake, hoory oop I 
 
 De reps ish gomin down '/' 
 
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 Und vhile he yet vas shpcakin, 
 
 A far-off soundt pe^an, 
 Down I'ollin from de moundain, 
 
 Of many a ridersmann. 
 Und vhilc do waves of musik 
 
 Vere rollin o'er deir heads, 
 Bey heard a foice a schkreemin : 
 
 *•' Pile out of thar, 3'ou Feds ! 
 
 " For we iins ar' a comii. 
 
 For to guv to you uns tits, 
 And knock you into brimstun, 
 
 And blast you all to bits — " 
 Boot ere it done ids slipeakin 
 
 Dere vas order in de band, 
 Ash Breitmaini, niit an awefool stim 
 
 Out-dondered his gomniund. 
 
 Und ash fisch-huwk at a maekarel 
 
 Doth make a splurgin tlung, 
 Und ash eagles dab de tisch-hawks 
 
 Ash if de gods were 3'oung ; 
 So from all de doors und vindows. 
 
 Like shpiders down deir webs, 
 De Dootch went at deir horses, 
 
 Und de horses at de rebs. 
 
 Crate shplendors of de treadful 
 
 Vere in dat pattle rush ; 
 Crate vights mit swordt und carpino 
 
 Py efery fence and bush ; 
 Ash panters vight mit crislies 
 
 In famished mordcr fits — 
 For de rebs vere mad ash boison, 
 - Und de Dootch vere droonk as blitz. 
 
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 Yet vild ash vas (lis pattle, 
 
 So quickly vas it o'er ;— 
 O vhy moost I forcfer 
 
 Postain mine page mit gore. 
 Py liddle und py liddle, 
 
 Dey dvavved demselfs afay; 
 Oft toornjn round to vighten, 
 
 Like bool'alocs at bay. 
 
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 De ecatterin shots grew fewer, 
 
 De scatterin gries more shlow; 
 Und fiirder troo de forest 
 
 Ye beared deni vainter crow. 
 Ye gife von shout—" Victoria T 
 
 Und denn der Breitmann said, 
 Ash he wiped his ploody sabre, 
 
 " Now, poys, count oop your dead !" 
 
 O small liad been our shoutin 
 
 For sboy, if ve had known, 
 Dat de Stossenheim im oaken Wald 
 
 Lay dyin all alone ; 
 Yhile his oldt white horse mit droopin hct 
 
 ]jOok dumbly on him down. 
 Ash if he dinked, " A^y lyest dou here 
 
 Yhile fightin's goin on 
 
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 Und dreams coom o'er de soldier, 
 
 Slow dyin on de eart, 
 Of a Schloss afar in Baden, 
 
 Of his mutter, und noplo birt— 
 Of poverty und sorrow 
 
 Yhich drofe him like de wind— 
 Ur.d he sighed : " Aeh web, for do lofed ones 
 
 Who wait so far pehind ! 
 
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 " Wohl auf, my soul o'er de moundains ! 
 
 Wohl auf — well ofer de sea ! 
 Dere's a frau dat sits in tie Odenwald, 
 
 Und shpins, und dinks of me. 
 Dere's a shild ash blays in de greenin grass, 
 
 Und sings a liddle hymn, 
 Und learns to shpeak a fader's name 
 
 Dat she nefer will shpeak to him. 
 
 " But mordal life ends shortly, 
 
 Und Ileafen's life is long — 
 Wo bist du, Breitmann ? — glaub'es— 
 
 Cxott suft'ers no ding wrong. 
 Now I die like a Christian soldier; 
 
 My head oopon my sword : — 
 In nomine Dominer* 
 
 Yas Stossenheim his word. 
 
 O, dere vas bitter wailen •' 
 
 Vhon Stossenheim vas found, - 
 
 Efen from dose dere lyin 
 
 Fast dyin on de grount. 
 Boot time vas short for vaiten, 
 
 De shades vere gadderin dim ; 
 Und I nefer shall forget it, - ' 
 
 De hour ve puried him. 
 
 De tramp of horse und soldiers 
 
 Yas all de funeral knell, 
 De ring of sporn und carpine 
 
 Yas all de sacrin bell. 
 Mit hoontin knife und sabre 
 
 Dey digged de grave a span ; 
 From German eyes blue gleamin 
 
 De holy water ran. 
 
 
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 Mit moss-grown sh ticks und bark- thong 
 
 Do plessed cross ve made, 
 Und put it vhere do soldier's head 
 
 Toward Germany vas laid. 
 Dat grave is lost mid dead leafs, 
 
 De cross is gone afay, 
 Boot Gott will find der reiter 
 
 Oopon de Youngest Day. 
 
 Und dinkin of de fightin, > 
 
 Und dinkin of de dead, 
 ' Und dinkin of de Organ, ; 
 
 To Nashville Breitmann led. 
 Boot long dat rough oldt Hanserl 
 
 Vas ernsthaft, grim und kalt, 
 Shtill dinkin of de heart's friend, 
 
 He'd left im gruenen Wald. 
 
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 De verses of dis boem 
 
 In Heidelberg I write. 
 De night is dark around me, 
 
 De shtars apove are bright. 
 Studenten in den Gassen 
 
 Make singen many a song, 
 * Ach Faderland ! — wie bist du weit ! 
 
 Ach Zeit ! — wie bist du lang ! 
 
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 The First Edition of Breitmann. 
 
 Showing l^ow and i^htj it luag that it novet] appeatjed. 
 
 " ?7/i8 «■*< in alten JUaeren, 
 
 Wiinders viel ffeseit, 
 
 Von Ilelden lohebaeren, 
 
 Vo7i grosser Areheif, 
 ' Von Festen und Hochzeiten, 
 
 Von Weinen und Klngen. 
 
 Von kuehnen Recken Streifen, 
 
 Moht Ihr nun Witnderhoren sar/en." ' 
 
 DeU NlBKLl'Nr.EN LIED. 
 
 FIRSDT PARDT. 
 
 Do oos, in anciend shdory, 
 Crate voondcrs is' pecn told 
 Of lapors fool of gljries, 
 Of heroes bluflf" und bold, 
 Of high oldt times a-kitin, 
 Of howlin und of tears, 
 Of kissin und of vightin : 
 All dis we likes to hears, 
 
 Dere growcd once dimes in Schwaben 
 
 Since lifty years pegan. 
 An shild of decent elders, 
 
 His name Hans Breitemann. 
 De gross adfentures dat he had, 
 
 If you will only look, . - 
 Ish all boscribed so truly , 
 
 In dis fore-lying book. 
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 MHMaMiMHi 
 
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 Unci allawoil dese lieder 
 
 Vere goin troo his het, 
 Do Avrilor lay von Sonntuy, 
 
 A-8hlecpin in his belt ; 
 Von lo ! — a yollow bigeon 
 
 Coom to him in u dream, 
 De same dat Mr. Barnuni 
 
 Yonce had in his Musdum. 
 
 
 Und dus out-shpoke de bigeon . 
 
 " If you should brint de songs 
 Or odor dings of Breitmann 
 
 Vhich to den on belongs, 
 Dey will tread de road of Sturm und Drang 
 
 Die wile es mohte leben, 
 Und pe mis-geborn in pattle 
 
 To dis fate ish it ergeben." 
 
 Und dus rebly do dreamer : 
 ^ "If on de ice it shlip, 
 Denn led it dake ids shanses ; 
 
 EipSam, undlet 'er rip! 
 Dou say'st it vill be s*airmy,— 
 Vot sturmy ish, ish crand. 
 . Crate heroes ish de beoples 
 In Uncle Samuel's land. 
 
 Du bii-t ein rechter Gelbschnabel 
 
 O golden bigeon mine : 
 Und I'll tighdt id on dis summer 
 
 If id dakes me all de line. 
 Full liddle ish de discount 
 
 Oopon de Yankee peeps." 
 *' Go to hell !" oxglaim de bigeon :— 
 
 Foreby vas all mine shleeps. 
 
SECOND! PARDT. 
 
 DERE vent to Sout Carolina, 
 A shentleman who dinkod, 
 Dat do pallads ofder Breitinann 
 Should papered pe iind inked. 
 Und dat he vouldt fixed do brintin 
 
 Peforo de writer know : 
 
 Dis make to many a brinter 
 
 Fool many a bitter woe. 
 
 All in de down of Charleston 
 
 A druckerei he found, * 
 
 Vhero dey cut de copy into takes, 
 
 Und sorted it around. 
 Und all vas goot peginnen, 
 
 For no man heeded moooh 
 Dat half do jours vas Mericans, 
 
 Und half of dem vas Dutch. 
 
 Und vorser ^htill, anoder half 
 
 Had vorn de Federal plue, 
 Vhile de anti-half in Davis grey 
 
 Had peen Confeterates true. 
 Great Himmel !-^Vot a shindy 
 
 Vos shtarted in de crowd 
 Vhen some von read Hans Breitmann 
 
 His Barty all aloud I 
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 Ilnd von goot-nadurod Yankee 
 
 He schvear it vos a shame, ^ 
 
 To dell soosh lies on Dutchmen, - 
 TTnd make of dem a game. 
 
 But dis make mad Fritz Luder, 
 
 Und he schveai* dis treat of'llans, 
 
 Vos shoost m goot a barty 
 Ash any oder man's. 
 
 Und dat nodings vos so looscious, 
 
 In all dis eartly shpcar, 
 Ash a quart mug fool of saiier-kraut, 
 
 Mit a plate of lager bier. 
 Dat do Yankee might po tam mit himself 
 
 For he, der Fritz, hafe peen 
 In many soosh a barty, 
 
 Und all dose dings hafe seen. 
 
 All mad oopsproong de Yankee, 
 
 Mid all his passion ripe, 
 Und vircd at Fritz mit de shootin-shtick, 
 
 Wheremit he vas settin type. 
 It hit him on de occiput, 
 
 Und laid him on de floor ; 
 For many a long day afder 
 
 I ween his het vas sore. 
 
 Dis roused Pict Weiser dor Pfaelzev, 
 
 Who vas quick to act und dink ; 
 He held in hand a roller 
 
 Vhere-mit he vas rollin ink, 
 Und he dake his broof by shtrikin 
 
 Dor Merican top of his het, 
 Und make soosh a vine impression 
 
 Dat he left do veller for deat. 
 
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 Allaweil tloso dingH oonfoldod, 
 
 Doro VJ18 rows of anodor kind, 
 Und dropio in do wiji^wnm 
 
 Enough to trifo dom plind; 
 Und a erate six-vootod Soutern man, 
 
 Vot hafo vorkcd on a Rofiow, [forms 
 Shvear ho hopo to fiott ho mighd pie de 
 
 If do Broitmann's book warn't truo. 
 
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 For do Sout vas ploondored dorriplo, 
 
 Und in dat darksomo hour 
 IIo hafo lossed a yallow-pino maidon, 
 
 Of all do land do vlovver. 
 Bright gold doblonos a hoondered 
 
 lie willingly vouldt pay, 
 Ash soon ash a thrip for a ginger-cake, 
 
 Und deem it shoap dat day. 
 
 To him aut-worded a Yorker, 
 
 Who shoonip den dimes do boun-ti-ee, 
 (Do only dings he lossed in de war 
 
 Was a sense of broperty :) 
 Says he, " Yotefer you hafo dropped, 
 
 Some odor shap hafo gat, 
 Undde yallow-pine like him potter ash you ; 
 
 On dat it is safe to bet !" 
 
 Dead-pale pecamo dat Soudern brave. 
 
 He tidn't so moosh as yell ; 
 Boot ho drop right onto do Yorker, 
 
 Und mit von lick bust his shell. 
 Den out ho flashed his pig-sticker, 
 
 Und mit looks of drementous gloom, 
 Rooshed vildly into de pattle 
 
 Dat vas ragin round de room. 
 
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 forms 
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 Boot, m ang\ilo, in de corner, 
 
 Aiiodor ([Ujirrol van ^row 
 Twix a BoHlon HJiap niit a Londonor, 
 
 Und do row inh ^okoinmeu 80 : 
 Do Yankee say dat do ll-u-nior 
 
 Of l^reitmann vas Iosh dan Hniall; 
 Doii^^h ho inakot do beoples laughen, 
 
 Boot dat vas onlj' all. 
 
 Don a Dentschor say l>y Donnor ! 
 
 Dat soosh a baradox 
 Yould Icafe no hope ibr writers 
 
 In all Pandora's ha'ndor box. 
 'Twan like de saying dat Heine 
 
 Ilafe no witz in him goot or bad ; 
 Boot he only kept sayin witty dings, 
 
 To make beoples ])elicvc he had. 
 
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 Den de oder vellcr be-headed 
 
 Dat dero vas not a shbark of foon 
 In de Breitmann lieds, vhen you load dem 
 
 Into English correctly done: 
 Den a Proof Sheet veller res-pondered, 
 
 For ho dink de dings vas liard ; 
 • Dat ish shoost like do goot oldt lady 
 
 Ash vent to hear Artemas Ward. 
 
 " Und say it vas shames do beoples 
 
 Vas laugh domselfs most toad 
 At de boor young veller lecturin, 
 
 Vhen he tidn't know vot ho said.' 
 Iloreauf do Yankee answered : 
 
 " Gaul dem it ! — Shtop your fuss 
 Und all de crowd togeder 
 
 Go slap in a grand plug-miiss. 
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 'V'""'"'" 'h'-'S '!« Proof SLoot 
 
 I iiicooj) Jiko ft poonkin 
 . i^oot ft Dctschor boostc iTn • ., . 
 
 ^fs—votasi^rhutvasdoro/ 
 I>onn ofor ftll do chapel 
 Yicrco war vasragin loose; 
 
 Got well go-eookod his gooso • 
 ^ool many an nosomit fisted' 
 Iweenvaspadlyscrougod; 
 
 Vas pJoodj out-..ego.,ged. 
 
 ^0 tt,^/r? ufgehauwen 
 I)crovft,j,,,,j„^^.^^ 
 
 -^0 horte 7nan dar inne 
 Man heardt «oo,sh treadful croa... 
 
 Be row vas rough und tough 
 
 Dere vas plooty wounds enough. 
 
 BoHhpiriclsofaneiendbrint^^^^ 
 
 ^romH.mmoI look down oopon 
 Uml allowed dat in a chapel ^ ' 
 
 Bere vas nefer Hoosh earrvins on 
 Und 9J 5 "''^ ^^^' ^»«t. ^ 
 
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 Doro vns Yankee jours extinctod 
 
 Who lay oopon do vloor ; 
 Deiv van Soiiteni ivhs (lostruetod 
 
 Who m'fV'P vouldt .lett" no more. 
 Anh deir .souls rise oop lo ilealen, 
 
 l)oy hoanl de oldt hrinters calls ; 
 Uiid Guttember^ gif'ed dern all a kick 
 
 Ash he histed dem ofer do walls. 
 
 Dal ish de vay dese Ballads 
 
 Foorst vero croosiied in plood und shdorni. 
 Fool many a day moost bass at'ay 
 
 Pefore dey dook tlis form. 
 De copy flootored o'er do preasts 
 
 Of heroes lyin todt. 
 Dis vas do diro peginnin — 
 
 Das war des Bueitmann's Xoin. 
 
 Dis song in Philadelphia 
 
 Long dimes ago pegun ; ^ 
 
 In Paris vas gondinued, und 
 
 In Dresden ist full-done. 
 If any toubt apout (.h facts 
 
 In noplo minds ish grew, 
 Let dem ashk Carl Benson Bristed— 
 
 He knows id all ish drue. 
 
 Und now dese Breitmann shdories 
 
 Ish geprindt in many a land, 
 ►Sogar in far Australia 
 
 Dey' re gestohlen und bokannt. 
 Go forth my book through ail the world, 
 
 Bear what thy fate may be ! 
 They maj^ bite thee, they may tear thee, 
 
 So they do no harm to me ! 
 
I Gili Romaneskro, 
 
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 M (Plpsy Ballad. 
 
 WHEN der IleiT Breitmann vas a yuiiglini^, lie 
 vas go, biimniin arouiidt, goot deal in do 
 Worldt, vestigatin human natur, roulant de 
 vergne en vergne, ash de Fraentsch boot says : " goin 
 from town to town," — seein beoples in geraixed so- 
 ciedy, und learnin dose languages vitch ornamendt u 
 di'ue moskopolite, or von whose het ish bemost mit 
 oxijerieucc. Mong oder tongues ash it would appeared, 
 he shpoke fluendly Red Welsh, Black Dootch, Kau- 
 der-Waelsch Gaunersprache und Ghipsy, und dis 
 latter languashe he pring so wide dat he write apook 
 ofpallads in it — von of vitch pallads I have intucc 
 him mic moush droples to telifer ofer to de worldt. 
 De inclined reader, vill, mit crate heavy-hood blace 
 pefore hini.self de fexation und lapor 1 hafe hat in 
 der Breitmann his absents to get dese Shipsy verses 
 broperly gorreeted ; as de only shentleman in town 
 who vas culj:)able of so doln, ish peen gontined in de 
 town-brison ; pout some drobles he hat for shdealin 
 some hens, und pefore I couldt consoolt init him, he 
 vas i-ooncd afa3^ Don I fond an oldt vomuns Shipsy 
 who vas do nodins boot peg, und so wider mit pout 
 tivc or four odei'S more. Derfore der erordoms moast 
 be excused py de enlightened pooplic who are fomi- 
 liar mit dis pcautiful languashe, vitch is now so 
 shoiiorally fashion^bel in literary uiul shpordin circlcf?. 
 
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 ■ X --"iiimtf' 
 
I GlLl ROMANESKRO. 
 
 I HEAR do gock a g-rowin ! 
 I hear de nmsikant ! 
 Gott gife dec a happy shournoy 
 Yhcn you go to a distand landt. 
 
 I hears oopon de x>ranches 
 A pird mit merry shdrain ; 
 
 Goot many lays moost fanish 
 Ere I eoom to dis blace again. 
 
 Oopon some oder tay-times 
 I'll hear dat song from dee ; 
 
 Boot now I goes ash soldier, 
 To war on de roUin sea. 
 
 Unt vot I shdoals in puttie, 
 Und vot on do road I shdcal, 
 
 I'll pring all to my true lofe 
 Who iofos her loafer so well. 
 
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 Steinii von Slang. 
 
 FIRSDT PARDT. 
 
 DER Watchman look out from his towei'j 
 Ash de Abendgokl glimmer grew dim, 
 Uiid saw on de road troo de Ganer 
 Ten shpearmen coom ridin to him : 
 TJnd he schvear: "May I lose my next bitter, 
 
 TJnd denn mit der Teiifel go hang, 
 If id isn't dat piilly young Eitter, 
 De hell-drivin Steinii von Slang,'" 
 
 " De vorldt nefer had any such man, 
 
 He vights like a sturni in its wrath ; 
 You may call me a rccular Dutchmann, 
 
 If ho arn't like Goliath of Gath. 
 He ish pig ash de shiant O'Brady, 
 
 More ash sefei. feet high on a string, 
 Boot he can't vin he hearts of my lady, 
 
 De lofely Plectnida von Sling." 
 
 De lady makes welcome her gast in, 
 
 Ash he shtep to de dop of de shtairs ; 
 She look like an angel got lost in 
 
 A forest of autumn-brown hair. 
 TJnd a bower-maideji said as she tarried: 
 
 " I wish I may bust mit a bang ! 
 If id isn't a shame she ain't married 
 
 To der her-re-liche Steinii von Slang !'' 
 
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119 
 
 He pows to de croiind fore de lady, 
 
 Vhile his vsice ish ash ])ale ash de toad ; 
 TJnd she vhispers oonto him a rodr, 
 
 Ash mit arrow point accents she said : 
 " You hafe long dimes peen dryin to win me, 
 
 You hafe vight, und mine braises you sing ; 
 Boot I'm 'Iraid dat de notion ain't in me."— 
 
 De lady Plectruda von 81ing. 
 
 " Boot brafe-hood teserfes a reward, Sir : 
 
 Dough you've hardly a chost of a shanse. 
 Sankt Werolf !— mcdinks id ish hardt, Sir, 
 
 I should allaweil lead you dis dance." 
 Like a bees ven it booz troo de clofcr, 
 
 Dese murmurin accents she flang. 
 Yhile singin, a stingin her lofcr— 
 
 Der woe-moody liitter von Slang. 
 
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 Boot if von ding you do, I'll knock under, 
 
 Our droples moost enden damit ; 
 Und if you pull troo it,— by donder ! 
 
 I'll own myself euchred und bit. 
 I Bchvear py de holy Sanct Chlody ! 
 
 Py mine honor— und avery ding ! 
 You may hafe me— soul, puttons und pody, 
 
 Mit de whole of Plectruda von Sling. 
 
 " Und dis inh de test of your power:— 
 
 Vhile ve shtand ourselfs round in a row. 
 You moost roll from de dop of dis tower 
 
 Down shtairs to de valley pelow. 
 Id ish rough und ash shteep ash my virtue: 
 (Mit sehwanen shweet accents she sang:) 
 « Tont dry if you dinks it vill hurt you, 
 Mine goot liddle Eitter von Slang." 
 
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 Mh dev look, .,, ''''"" on his J,orn 
 
 U«;' not roll Cn di Sm?""' "" "'<'''>«- 
 
 '-■■■^hoo„d.ediit:ttirvr8f;i/ 
 
 SECONDT PARDT. 
 
 Und ash Iip x-qiw 
 
 , Ho .eo,":i.;r „i;:irt"i,r;' ^'">™'' 
 
 , Anstran«o liddl, "^"opkiii, 
 
 ID 
 
 ^01- 'J va«n't von th , 1' ''"^^^ '' ^^''"'g •'" 
 Ho'd bassod 0, dor S.''^"' '^^"^^'^//' 
 
 ■S- 
 
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 Oh reater ! — soopose soosh a vlight in 
 
 De vingers of me, or of you, 
 How we'd toorned on our heels und gon kitin 
 
 Dill no von vas left to pursue ! 
 Goot Lort ! — How we'd froze to de ready ! 
 
 Boot niit him 'dvas a different ding ; 
 For he vent on de high, moral steady, 
 
 Dis lofer of Fraeulein von Sling. 
 
 Und dough no von vill gife any gredit 
 
 To dis part of mine dale, shdill idsdrue, 
 He drafelled ash if he vould dead it 
 
 Dis liddle oldt man to pursue. 
 Und loudly he after him hollers, 
 
 Till de vales mit de el liters loud rang, 
 " You hafe gife me nine-ten too moosh ilollars — 
 
 Hold hard !" cried de Ritter von Slang. 
 
 De oldt man ope his eyes like a easement, 
 
 Und laidt a cold hand on his prow, 
 Denn mutter in ootmosdt amazement : 
 
 " Vot mannor of mordal art doii ? 
 I hafe lifed in dis v/orld a yar tausend, • 
 
 Und nefer yed met soosh a ding ; 
 Yet you find it hart vork to pe spouse und 
 
 Peloved py de Lady von Sling. 
 
 " Und she vant you to roll from de tower 
 
 Down shteps to yon rifulet shpot." 
 (Here de knight whom amazement o'erbower 
 
 dried " Himmolspotzpumpenherr Gott !") 
 Boot he oldt vellcr saidt : ''I'll arrange it. 
 
 Let your droples und sorrows co hang ! 
 Und no dings vill coom to derange it, 
 
 Pet high on it, Riter von Slang." 
 
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 '* So get oop (lis small oondorstandin ; 
 
 Dat to-morrow py te<\ — do you hoar ? 
 You'll po mit your trunk on do landin ; 
 
 I'll po doro on hand, nofor fear. 
 Und I dink ve shall make your 3'oung voman 
 
 A new kind ofmoloty sing; 
 Dat vain, vickcd, cruel, inhuman, 
 
 Gott tamnaplo Fraeulcin von Sling !" 
 
 De fiolot sh('urs vere apofe him, 
 
 Vhito moths und vhite dofos shimn\ored round, 
 All nature seemed seekin to lofe him, 
 
 Mit perfume, imd vision, und sound. 
 De liddlo oldt feller hat fanishcd 
 
 In a harp-like melotious twang ; 
 TJnd mit him all sorrow vas panished 
 
 Afay from der Steinlc von Slang. 
 
TrfiRD PART. 
 
 ID vaa morn, uiid do vorldt hat asscinplcd 
 Mit punners und lances iind dust, 
 Boot de heart ofde Paroncss trcmi)lo(l, 
 Und ofden her folly she cussed. 
 For she found dat der Hitter vould do it, 
 
 Und " die or g-et into de liini;-," 
 Und denn she'd pe cerdain to rue it, 
 Aldou^h she vas Lady von Slinjj^. 
 
 For no man in Deutschland stood higher 
 
 J)an he mit de Minnesing crew ; 
 He vas friendet to lleini von Steier, 
 
 "Und Wolfram von Eschenback too. 
 Und she dinked ash she look from de vinders, 
 
 How herlich his braises dey sang : 
 "Now dey'll knock my goot name indo flinders 
 
 For killin der Ritter von Slang." 
 
 Boot oh ! der goot knight had a schauer, 
 
 Und felt most ongommonly queer, 
 Yen he find on de dop ofde dower 
 
 J)e gray man pesite him appear. 
 Den he find he no more could go valkin 
 
 Und shtood shoost an potritied ding, 
 Yhile de gray man vent round apout talkin 
 
 Und chatfin Plectruda von Sling ! 
 
 Den at vonce he sec indo de problum, 
 
 Und vas stoggered like rats at ids vim ; 
 His soul had gone indo do goblum, 
 
 Und de goblum's hat gone into him. 
 Und de eyes of de volk vas enchanted, 
 
 Dore vas "glamour'" oopon de whole gang, 
 For dey dinked dat dis goblum vitch ranted 
 
 So loose, vas der liitter von Shmg. 
 (123) 
 
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 Und gifin Plectnub D„tch fit ' ' 
 Liko a l,el|..,t;„„i„ ,1,,^,;, , ""' /•I'«fted her, 
 
 At ir„o„le,n Ploctnula von Sltng! 
 De lady g,,„ „„^„.y „„,, ^^^^^ 
 
 -^f :™;::-r-^-'- 
 I>o^n'L1:,rr^:^';'•'■;''»«-■ 
 ^^h ho .shvcaml (lore vo« J r *=' 
 
 Ho a„gh ,0 to f,.ecze„ yo„r n "l. . 
 Hafo mn, 1 ,n" °r''' ""^^ ''« ^<" ««» 
 
 Bo. o, ,.„j:x!:-i- ^^^^ 
 
 ^he,.e„o change ,„U,,e ode,, von S,ang, 
 
]25 
 
 Den all in an insdand vas altered ; 
 
 l)er Stelnli vas coom to himfjolf ; 
 Und dc Hpi'ite, vitch in double sensse paltered, 
 
 From dat moment acain vas an elf. 
 J)oy shdill dinked dat von Slan^ vas do person 
 
 Who had bobbed oop und down on de ving, 
 Und k'new not Avho 'tvas lay de eur.se on 
 
 ]^e ]-»caudiful Lady von Slinijf. 
 
 Nun — endlieh — Pleetruda— repented, 
 
 Und ^azed on der Hitter mit shoy ; 
 Jn dime to po married consented, 
 
 Und vas plessed mit a ]»cautilnl poy 
 A dwenty g-ohl biece on his bosom 
 
 Yen i;-ej)orn vas tiscofered to hang, 
 Mit de inscript — " Dis dime don't refuse cm." — 
 
 So endet de tale of von Slang. 
 
 To a Friend Studying German. 
 
 S'l liccret te uiiiiire. 
 Ad Survonim maijnum man' 
 SpoUHum tc perduccrein. 
 [Tristiriii Amoroso. Fran Arcntiurc, I'on ./. 1'. f^chfffel.l 
 
 ViLi/sT dou learn de Deutsche Sprachc ? 
 Den set it on your card 
 Dat all de nouns have shenders, 
 Und de shendors all are hard. 
 Dero ish also dings called pronoms, 
 
 Vitch ids shoost ash veil to know ; 
 Biot ach ! — dc verl>s or time-w.)rd>, 
 Doj^'ll work you bitter woe. 
 
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 Vill'st clou lean. ,lel)e.u,sohoSprnel,o? 
 
 -lo .sinionios, nomitm, 
 Or an oratorio. 
 
 iUoic,islia„y,„|„,. 
 I'>«uro,l„,,oul„fj,e„„,h,„„j 
 liido your aoiil ish n„. 
 
 JHmo„.,toat„,.o„ta,.„ek' "^ 
 
 M t Gott know., vot in vinol„„. 
 
 L Hi Douce know, voti„r,,,„. 
 Dwisl..loonlyo„,.d„i„,., , 
 
 lo >"ako do aoconl, coom. 
 
 Vill'»t clou learn deDoulschoSpraeho? 
 
 li.|opa,.o ,1,. «,ul ,o ,|„an,l '"'''' 
 'Soo»l, .ondonoe, a.,h n'or voro l.oarcit 
 
 Iii any odor landl 
 
 T." -lou oan.t l«ar ,,arontho,os 
 I'o twirfoU olmo Zal,l ■ 
 
 ■ ^"'f/"-y '"X H gallon d,y 
 Oi foamin Shorman bior. 
 
 To. (,a„.br,n„, i»h do Bniboror 
 «*dewl,ol„ofGern,an>-. 
 
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 Vill'st ilou learn do Deulseho Sprac-lio ? 
 
 Po sholly, brav, uiid trou, 
 For (hit vellor i.sh koin Dcutseher 
 
 Who isli not a sliolly i)oy ; 
 Find out vot means (Jcmutliliclikeit, 
 
 Und try it niitout fail, 
 In Sang mid Klang dein Lchenlang, 
 
 A heart, ganz kren/tidel. 
 
 Viir.st doii learn de Doutsehc Sprache? 
 
 If a shendlenian don art, 
 Denn shtrike right into DcutHehland 
 
 Und get a shvectoshoirt. 
 From Schwabenland or Sachsen, 
 
 Vhere now dis writer pees, 
 Und de bretty girls all wachsen 
 
 Shoost like aepples on de drees. 
 
 Boot if dou boo'st a lady, 
 
 Denn on de oder hand, 
 Take a blonde moustachioed lofer. 
 
 In de vine-green Sherman land. 
 Und if you shouldt kit married, 
 
 Yood mit vood soon makes a vire : 
 O denn you'll find de Dutch vill coom 
 
 Ash fast as you desire. 
 
Love Song. 
 
 «•» 
 
 OVKHK mim' lot'c a sii,i;iir-po\vl, 
 Do ic'i'v .sliniulk'st l()Oin[> 
 Voiildt shvoi't do soas from bole to bolo, 
 lJi)(l make do Kliiklrcn slioomp. 
 Uiul if'sho voi'o a cloi'or-Holdt, 
 
 I'd l)ot mino only poiioc^ 
 Jt vouldii't po no dinio at all 
 Polbi'o I'd slioomp do roiit-o. 
 
 llcr lioafonly loioo it drill mo ho, 
 
 It really seems to iioort ; 
 8he isli do holiest anamilo 
 
 Dat rooiis oopon do dirt. 
 Do ro'nbow rises von she sin<(s; 
 
 1)0 sonn shine von she dalk, 
 J)o ant^ols crow nnd vloj) dcir vinys 
 
 Yen she goes out to valk. 
 
 So livin vhito — so earnadine — 
 
 Mine lofo's gombloxion glow ; 
 It's shoost like abendearmosino 
 
 IJioh gloamin on do shnow. 
 llor soul makes plooshes in her shock, 
 
 As sommor reds do wcin, 
 Or sonlight sends a Hre-lifo troo 
 
 An blank kartiinkelstoin. 
 
 Do ueborsohwonglicho idocs 
 
 I)is lofo put in my mind, 
 Yould make a foostratc ])hilosoph 
 
 O f ' any h u m a n k i n (J . 
 'Tis sliudorend sweet on oart' to meet 
 
 An himmlisch-hoellisch qual, 
 Und treat mit whiles to kummel schnapps, 
 
 Do Shd'nhoitsidoal. 
 
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 '^^iB»i9H 
 
GLOSSARY 
 
 A^oiih/iihl, ((iclliiilli) — Kviiiiii;; ^oh\. 
 
 All! inl^iimiiiisihi ill, (li ('11111111) — 1'!\( iiiii)^' siiiisliiiH'. 
 
 -Ir// l-'iii'nlniiil itt' , ((it riimii) — 
 
 '• ( »li ]*'allii'il)iiiil Imw lilt ail (liiiii I 
 ( >li 'I'liii' - liuw tluui Hit hiii^ I ■ 
 
 .{ill ir. A, ((icillliin, ( ill, Wiir, 
 
 .■\l/ii/iii/, (del iiiiiii) — Kvriy (luy. 
 
 Alliiiriil, ((Irruiaii) — .\l\viiv>; iilso u iiilsl. 
 
 .'l/(f//H/A', ( Aiiicririui) — Aiiiiniil. 
 
 Aiitironlcil, ((iciinaii) — \ii,s\vi'i(il. 
 
 Jiiiniili r-/ii>.r, — HiiikI-Imix, 
 
 Jl< -i/hnsiii, (( iii'iDiiii, Hiiji ifln-l) — l!is|iircil. 
 
 Jli III iiili il, ((<( Tiiiaii, I''! Ihiii/ihl) — As.si Tlid. 
 
 /'ii/ri-ifrii, Miclin.'ili) — I'lHliMs'ainl. 
 
 /Iinmnt, ((Jfriiiaii) — Mossninu ii ; in stmlciit's laii.Lfiiaf;!', lin 
 
 hfiiiiioKtr llttiijil^ all old sludriit, 
 Jti'-ntiix'il — l!iiisi<l, will) tlir aii,u',iui ut, I i In a I U<v <iiiiiiaii, nloiLi n. 
 Ji/i':, ((ii'inian') — l.i^litniii},', 
 Jin/i' Jif/c rmiil — Near Mm tVci sluao', 'IViiii.ssci'. 
 /liiinilirr^ (Aiiiriicaii) — I'lOiiiit v -UK .iicv |iai(l (liiiiiii; the war as a 
 
 jii'ciiiimii to s(il(li( TM. To juiiii» tln' Idiinty, wiis to si'ciirt' 
 
 tin- juc iiiiiini, and IIk ii iiiii away. 
 
 " Tins is tiic xiiil; oI' Hilly Jones, 
 
 Wlio JllllllKd till' lioUli-ti-rt','' 
 
 AiiM ri( an liallad of 18G1. 
 Jliiir, (Cn'riiian) — (iood. 
 JJnniiiiiril, (<ii'riiiaii, ('ruinint r)- — To niaisc a ^^rowliii,^, dii-)p lias.-' 
 
 sound. 
 Jill III mi iif/ — From linmnui'. 
 
 Jlus/iir/i'irki'l-s — (lUl'lillus. 
 
 Jliixl /itK ahill^ (Aim licaii)' — i'.iokr liis iicad. 
 
 Cur III "■•'ill'' J ((ii'inian) — Crimson. Ficiuii — ( 'lamoisif. 
 
 ('iiiiiiiiliiii — Incarniulim'. Drep i)ink or Idood red. 
 
 C 
 
 UIIIIKISIIl 
 
 I III I 
 
 1/ xlii'.k — A soil of iron iio.v or ricciitacli' lu wliicli tyjic 
 arc |*lac't'd as they an' sit or ladiiiilit toL^illn r. 
 i'lmU'i- — The iiiv< ntor of tin' arl of luinliii,!;, ai cordinL; to tlic 
 Dutdi. 
 
 Ci-iuli'.- — (irisly, (licar.) 
 Diimil, ((icrman) — ]>y tliiit 
 
 />«.v irnr ill X lli-i ihihinn' 
 
 Viil. ((icrmanj — That was I'.icilmann 
 
 lU'i'd or fatal i:\ti>niily. imitatrd from llii; last line of J)i'r 
 
 Nil>('liiii,i;i n liicd. 
 /)/' Srli(i:iihiil.^i,h<;l^ ((Icrman) — The idial cif heauiy. 
 Dttilm-li/ritiii, (t!erman) — Cierman-it'ady. A Imrlesiinu word. 
 
 " 'i'heii yon will be (.iermau-i't'iKly for an ideal ]i('rfect 
 
 liinjiuanc" 
 l)"tit»i-hlinvl — tiormany. 
 iJic irili' 'I- innlite li!„ii^ (Old (Icrman, of ^liddlc llig Gorman of 
 
 the nth century) — Duiin^^ all its lift 
 
 " \)\\A woldc cr imiiur dicncn 
 Die wilu or niolilc Iclion. ' 
 
 Kiitrun, XV avent, 756 verse 
 
! 
 
 fF- 
 
 \i 
 
 1 
 
 the inventor of the art of 
 
 Meaniniiifj;- 
 
 tone of 
 
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 Druckerci, (Geiinan) — Printing office. 
 
 J)u bin ein Micii/cant — Tiion ait a musician. 
 
 Elikrx, (Gorman, Elleni) — Parents. 
 
 E/fenbein, (German) — Ivor\'. 
 
 Ergeben, (German) — Give over. 
 
 Enisthiift, (German) — Earnest. 
 
 Enor-dnin. Irrthuvi — Error. 
 
 Fass, (German) — Barrel. 
 
 Frau, (.xerman) — Woman. , 
 
 Froze to de rcddi/ — Held fast to the money. 
 
 Ftillenden, (German, Vollenden) — To finish, perfect. 
 
 FtisHf (German) — Foot. 
 
 Fust — Tlie partner of Giiterabj 
 
 printing. ,.. 
 
 Gad, (German) — Gneet. 
 Giiuer — Vallies. 
 Gaul dern — A Yankee oath. 
 Gauner-sprache, (German) — Thieves' hinguagi'. 
 Geh hin mein Pitch, (Ueiinan of IGtIi century.) 
 Gekommen so, (German) — Come tiius. 
 Gelbschnabel, (German) — Yellow bill. («. e. si>ft.) 
 
 "greenhorn.' 
 Gcnmthlichkeit, (German) — Good nature ; a cheerfid 
 
 mind. 
 
 Geslohlen mid bckannf, (German) — Stolen! and known. 
 Glaub'es, (German) — Believe it. 
 Gobhim — Forgohlin. 
 Golteshaus, (German) — House of God. 
 Gutemberg — The inventor of the art of printing. 
 Gave — Southern slang for give. Guc, for give, i.s also English 
 
 slang as well as American. 
 7/'/nse/'/, (German) — Jaeky. 
 Heavy — Hood. 
 
 Heine, Hciniich — German poet. ^ 
 
 Heini von Steier — Heinrich von Opterdingen. 
 Heller, (German) — Farthing. 
 Hereauf, /j«crai(/-— Thereupon. " 
 
 Herrlich, (German) — Noble ; lordly. 
 Herzlich, (German) — Heartily ; cordially. 
 Himmel, (German) — Heaven. • 
 
 Himmels-Potz-Ptimpen-Herrgott — A mild sort of a German impre- 
 cation untranslatable. 
 Uimmlisch-Hoellixch qual, Heavenly-hellish pain. 
 Hoof-irons, (Huf-eisen in German) — Horse-shoe. 
 Im gruenen Wald, (German) — In the greenwood. 
 Im Oaken Wald, (German) — In the oak wood. 
 In nomine Domine, (Latin) — In the name of the Loi'd. 
 "In nomine Domine I 
 Was Hero Hagen's word." 
 In Sang und Klang dein Lebenlang. In song and music all thy 
 
 life. 
 Jeff, (Printer's phrase) — A game played by throwing up types 
 
 and counting the nick. 
 
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 Jours — roiiinujuu'n. 
 
 Ka/t, ((riTuiiHi)— Cold. 
 
 luimtMi'r, (German) — Cu'.iiiskT tubaf.'co. 
 
 Kdifiiukehleiii, (Gorriuin) — Carbiinclf. 
 
 K'liiddr- Wdclxc/i, ((JLTMiaii) — G iljborisli. 
 
 Ivi/iii, (I kitiii — Flying or running nipitll}'. 
 
 Kreiizjidel, (GcrmHn)--Triio lu'iirtt'd ; gallant in tli-j Iiiglu'st 
 
 dcgrei'. 
 ICiiHimel, (^Vfi'nnnu) — ('umin brandy. ', . 
 
 Lu'iliii; Lietls, ((lornian) — Songs. 
 JAke fpukm down their wehs — Brcitmann's soldiers are snpposoii to 
 
 bavo been e.xport tiunurs or gymnasts. 
 Lmifo.) — A term wliicb, considered as tbe German pronnneiation 
 
 of lovcr^ is a close translation of rom^ as this latter nuan.s 
 
 botli a Gipsy and a husband. 
 T.dH'M, (Laittcn in German) — To make sound. 
 Linnpenylocke, (German) — An abusive term applied to bells, es- 
 pecially to tiioso who give the signal that the beer houses 
 
 must closo. 
 •'■ }[(ike de Tjd cockcrow'' — "To set the red cock on the roof,' 
 
 signifies in (Jerman, to set a man,s hou.se on fire. 
 Jlit, hoonlin knife^ &c. — 
 
 «' With lier white hands .so lovely 
 She dug the Count his grave, 
 , ^ From her dark eyes sad weeping, 
 
 The holy water she gave." 
 
 (Old German ballad.) 
 Morgan — John Morgan, a notorious Confederate guerilla during 
 
 the late war in America. 
 Moskopolitc, (.Vmerican) — Cosmopolite. 
 Mutter, (German) — Jlotiier. . 
 
 Nun-endlich, (German) — Well, at last. 
 
 (yiiradey — An Irish giant commemorated in aonce popular song. 
 Odi'nwald — A thickly wooded district in Sotith (Tcrmany. - 
 Ohne Zal, ^German) — Without number. 
 On-belonffs — Literal translation of Ziirjehort. 
 Oop-sproomj — For aufHiirung. 
 Orr/elton, ((jrcvimm) — Organ sound. 
 (hd-sprach — Outspoke. 
 Peeps — People, " Hard on the American peeps'" — a phrase for 
 
 anything exacting or severely pressing. 
 Pestain — Stain, with the augment. 
 Pfaelzer — A man from the llhrnish Palatinate, 
 Pie the forms — Break np and scatter th<; forms of type. 
 Pile out, (Ameiican) — Hurry out. 
 
 Plug muss, (American fireman) — A fight around a fire-plug. 
 Poo«i-m— Pumpkin. 
 Rede, (German) — Speech. 
 
 Red-Waelsch, lioth-Waelsch, (German) — Thieves' language. 
 Reiter, (German) — Rider. 
 Ridersvidnn, (Reitersmann in German) — IJider. 
 Ritter, (German) — Knight. 
 Sachscn — Saxonia, Saxony. 
 
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 Sncriii — Conscemtin.iir. 
 
 Siiuerkmut, (Gi'rnian) -Pickled cabbago. 
 
 Scofft!r/n, Scolterin — Srattering-. 
 
 Sc/iaii/'i; ((u-niifin) — ShuiidtT. 
 
 Schfiiik (IKS, ((lennaji) — I'our out. 
 
 Schimmd, ((ic-rnian) — Grey liorse! 
 
 tSc/ifiiss, (Gcrniiiii) — Castlr. 
 
 Sr/>o/>enJuainr—A cok^bmted German " iihilosoi-liical pbysiolo- 
 
 Sc/iw(d)ci> — Siiabia. 
 
 Sc/iif(iue?), (Gcrniaii) — Swans. - 
 
 S-/iH'ortzcr Mo/ir, (Giinniin)~A h]adi negro. M(.lir in German 
 
 ].s appiie.l very generally to botli Moors and neirroes^ 
 Scroiiycil, (Ameriean)— Prcsserl, jammed. 
 St'd/cii — /(ktil. Soul's ideal. 
 
 .S7(ff;if/— Cliapel is an old word for a printing olliee. 
 i'^/ii/isi/ — (iips3'. 
 
 ,S7</<V/^/— Slide. "Let it slide," vulgar for " let it go."' 
 »S'/<oo//«-s/(/<c/.'— Sliooting-stiek. It is used for ciosini: up the 
 
 forms of types. 
 S/ipeck — Spec/c, (German) — Baeon. 
 <S'cw/»/'(/^.«, (German) — Sundays. 
 Spirl, (German) — IMay. 
 Sjiorn, ((German) — Spur. 
 Stim, (German, Stimnie) — Voiee. 
 Studenten in den C'ussen, (German) — Students in tlie street 
 
 lanes. 
 
 Sturm itnd ])v(niff,(Gi.'\-w,m) — Storm and pressure. • 
 
 Sweynheim inid J'tmnarfx—'Uti: t\vi^t printers at Uonie. 
 Takes, (printers' piirase) — Allotments of eopy, or strips, to eaeli 
 
 printer. 
 Teit/el, (German)— Devil. 
 Thrip, (Soutliern Ameriean) — Three-pence. 
 7hdt, (Gi'rman) — Dead. - ■ .. 
 
 Trcppe, (tierman) — Stairs. 
 Trcu, (German) — Faitlifid, true. 
 l'chcrschwengU''Jie, (German) — T ansceniital ; ek", ated. 
 
 Yenkimmt, (German) — D d. 
 
 Wahres Kunstgenuss, (German) — Truly artistic enjoyment. 
 Wachsen, (German) — Grow : — 
 
 " Komm'ieh in's galante Saelisen, 
 Wo flic scluene Maedehen waeiiSLU." 
 Wild Hiid wc/i, (German) — Wilk and woe begone. 
 Wo list du? (German) — Where art? 
 Woe-moaedi/, (German, Wemuthinf/) — Moanful, doleful. 
 Wohl anf! (German) — Literally well up ; but meaning ^'- hey T 
 
 or " up tliert: !" 
 Wiirst mil- iind eyal — All one to me. Wuist is a German student 
 
 word for indifference. 
 Yaiiaiisend, Jalniausend, (German) — A thousand years. 
 Yellow pine, (American) — A mulatto. 
 
 Yoitnycst Bay, (tJerman) — Tuengste tag. The Day of Judgment. 
 Ytinyliny, Jnnyliny, (Gorman) — Youth. 
 
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