PG. has both 'ær iss' and 'ær isch' (he is) according to the locality, of which the latter may be less common. The Rev. D. Ziegler (a native, like myself) refers the 'isch' variety to the Mennonite and Dunker population, and as there were many Dunkers (or Tunkers) where my early years were passed, I heard more of this than of the other. The indicative mood present tense of _haben_ and _sein_ are, with some variations, as follows (Stalder, 1, 47-50)-- _Swiss._ _PG._ i hah; ich hab, hap, _I have_. de hest; du hǝscht, _thou hast_. er hed, hett; ær hat, _he has_. mer hend; m'r hen, _we have_. der hend; d'r hent, _you have_. sj hend; sii hen, _they have_. i bi; ich bin, _I am_. de bisch, bist; du bischt, _thou art_. er isch, ist; ær iss, isch, _he is_. mer sind; m'r sin, _we are_. der sind; d'r sint, _you are_. sj sind; sii sin, _they are_. Here the dative singular _mir_ (to me) is used in the nominative plural instead of _wir_ (we), and also in impersonal expressions; and the dative singular _dir_ (to thee) is similarly used for _Ihr_ (you), as in 'd'r sint' for G. _Ihr seid_ (you are). G. _Ihr habet_ (you have) has forced its _t_ upon the first and third persons plural of the Swiss forms; and in PG. the second person is sometimes forced upon the third, as in the following, from the Wollenweber's Gemälde (in the German character), 1869, p. 124,-- For äbout 32 Johr z'rick, do _=hent=_ unsre ... Schaffleut ... im Stenbruch geschafft, un sten gebroche, for de grosze Damm zu fixe. 'Fr ǝbaut' tswee-un-dreissich joor tsrik, do hent unsre ... schaffleit ... im schtee˛bruch geschafft, un schtee˛ gebrǝchǝ f'r di grosse 'damm' tsu fixǝ. _'For about' thirty-two years back, here have our laborers worked in the quarry, and quarried stone to 'fix' the big 'dam.'_ (Here the English _fix_ and _dam_ are used, instead of G. _fixîren_, and _der damm_.) Here the first _for_ may be regarded as English, but the second occurs in the Palatinate--"for den Herr Ring sehr ungünschtig" (Kobell), _for Mr. Ring very unfavorable_--"for sei Lügerei,"--_for his truthlessness_. The next is extracted from a poem by Tobias Witmer, dated from the State of New York, June 1, 1869, printed in the 'Father Abraham' English newspaper, in roman type, and reprinted Feb. 18, 1870. The original spelling is that of Mr. Rauch, and is not reproduced. Dialectic words are _=spaced=_, and English words are here put in _italics_. The translation is rather free.