And hence, by way of a compound mixture, we get
from him drafel for travel, derriple for terrible, a



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daple-leck for a table-leg, bepples foi* pebbles, tisas-
der for disaster, schimnastig dricks for gymnastic
tricks, let-bencil for lead-pencil, &c. The peculi-
arity of Germans pronouncing in their mother tongue
s like sh when it is followed by t or p, and of Ger-
mans of southern Germany often also final s like sh,
naturally produced in their American jargon such
results as shplit, shtop, shtraight, shtar, shtupen-
dous, shpree, shpirit, &c. ; ish (is), ash (as), &c. ; and,
by analogy, led to shveet (sweet), schwig (swig), &c.
We need not notice, however, more than these freaks
of the German-American-Bnglish of the present
poems, as little as we need advert to simple vulgar-
isms also met with in English, such as the omission
of the final g in words terminating in ing (blayin' —
playing ; shpinnen' — spinning ; ridin', sailin', roonin',
&c.) We must, of course, assume that the reader
of this little volume is well acquainted both with
English and German.
