. Perfect pearls of poetry and prose; the most unique, touching, inspiring and beautiful literary . THE PUZZLED DUTCHMAN. CHARLES F, ADAMS. M a proken-hearted Deutscher, Vots villed mit crief und dells you vot der drouple ish:/ doosnt know my name. You dinks dis fery vunny, eh ? Yen you der schtory hear,You vill not vonder den so mooch, It vas so schtrange und queer. Mine moder had dwo leedlc hvins:Dey vas me und mine broder : Ve lookt so fery mooch alike,No von knew vich vrom toder. Von off der poys vas Yawfob,Und Hans der oders nama: But den it made no tifferent;Ve both g
. Perfect pearls of poetry and prose; the most unique, touching, inspiring and beautiful literary . THE PUZZLED DUTCHMAN. CHARLES F, ADAMS. M a proken-hearted Deutscher, Vots villed mit crief und dells you vot der drouple ish:/ doosnt know my name. You dinks dis fery vunny, eh ? Yen you der schtory hear,You vill not vonder den so mooch, It vas so schtrange und queer. Mine moder had dwo leedlc hvins:Dey vas me und mine broder : Ve lookt so fery mooch alike,No von knew vich vrom toder. Von off der poys vas Yawfob,Und Hans der oders nama: But den it made no tifferent;Ve both got called der same. 152 ARTEMUS WARD AT THE TOMB OF SHAKSFEARE. Vel!! von off us got tead,— Und so I am in drouples: Yaw, Mynheer, dot ish so! I gant kit droo mine hed But vedder Hans or Yawcob, Vedder Tm Hans vols lifing, Mine moder she dond know. Or Yawcob vot is tead!. KRTEMUS WARD AT THE TOMB OF SHAKSFEARE, CHARLES F. BROWNE. IpVE been lingcrin by the Tomb of the lamentid Shakspeare. 1^ It is a success. d^ I do not hestate to pronounce it as such. fYou may make any use of this opinion that you see fit. If youthink its pubhcation will subswerve the cause of litteratoor, you maypublicate. I told my wife Betsey, whtjn I left home, that I should go to the birth-place of the orthur of Otheller and other Plays. She said that as long as Ikept out of Newgate she didnt care where I went. But, I said, dontyou know he waa the greatest Poit that ever lived ? Not one of thosecommon poits, like that young idyit who writes verses to our daughter,about the Roses ;i8 groses, and tlu; breezes as blowses—but a JJoss poit—also a [)hilo8ophor, also a man who knew a great deal about everything. Yes. Ive b<;f!n to Stratford onto the Avon, tin Birth-})laco ofShakospojire. Mr. S. is now no mon;. Hes been dead over three him-drod (300) years. The peple of his native
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