"Dà is 's so still und hâemli', Kâe' lärm, kâe g'schrâe kimmt 'nei': In'n himmi kà's nit schöner W' as in mei'n gâârt'l sei'." Sii nochbǝr wass mei, freet iss! Am sundaak marrghǝ frii, Gærn hæær[53] ich in mei˛m gærtli Dii kærchǝ-_bell_ǝ hii˛.[54] Do 's iss so schtill un heemlich, Kee˛ jacht, kee˛ kschrei kummt nei˛; Im himml kann s net schee˛nǝr Wii s in mei˛m gærtl sei. _See neighbor, what my joy is, on Sunday in the morn; I listen in my garden, to the church-bell ring. Here it is so still and calm, no turmoil, no strife comes within; in heaven_ (kann es nicht) _it cannot be fairer than_ (es) _it is in my little garden._ § 3. PG. _not Suabian_. The Pennsylvania Germans have traditional stories against the Suabians, although their population is in part derived from the upper (Pfalz) Palatinate; and some Suabians settled in Northumberland County, Pa., the evidence of which remains in the name of a stream, _Schwaben_ (or _Swope_) Creek. PG. resembles Suabian in using 'e, eǝ' for _ö_, and 'ii' for ü--in the loss of infinitive _-n_,--in turning final _-n_ into a nasal vowel (as in sei˛ for _seyn_), and in saying 'du bischt,' 'du kannscht,' etc. (for G. _du bist_), 'du witt' for _du willst_; 'nimme' for _nicht mehr_; 'glei' for _gleich_ in the sense of _soon_--but the adjective 'gleich' (similar) remains. PG. does not turn _o_ into _au_, as in Suabian '_braut_,' '_hauch_,' for _brot_, _hoch_; nor cut down G. _ich habe_ to '_i ha_'; it does not add elements, as in '_bois_' for G. _bös_, PG. 'bees,' '_bluat_' for G. _blut_, '_reacht_' for _recht_, '_kuine_' for _keine_, and '_stuinige fealder_' for _steinige felder_, a peculiarity of Suabian, Alsatian, Swiss, Bavarian and its kin Austrian. PG. has archaic 'hees' (hot) for G. _heisz_, but nothing like Bavarian _haǝs_. Difference of pronunciation causes confusion of speech between speakers of different dialects, as shown by Dr. Rapp in his Physiolōgie der Sprache, 4, 131. In the 'Fliegende Blätter' (13, 158) there is a dialogue called 'Ein Deutsch-Böhme' (a German Bohemian), between a _Bauer_ and a _Städter_--but a Swiss speaker is now added, with the rejoinder to his remark. _Bauer._ Wie is de Suppe so hāsz! _Städter._ Man sagt ja nicht hāsz, sondern heisz. Has [G. hase, PG. haas hare] nennt man das Thier.... _Bauer._ Dös hāszt bei uns Hōs! _Städter._ Das ist wieder falsch. Hōs bedeutet jenes Kleidungsstück, womit Eure langen Beine bedeckt sind. _Bauer._ Dös hāszt Hus! _Schweitzer._ Aber mer sind jets im Huus. _Bauer._ Dös iss 'n _Haus_! Diminutives in PG. and Suabian are made with-li; both use 'des' for _das_, 'uffm' for _auf dem_, 'biirǝ' for _birnen_, 'g'hat' or 'kat' for _gehabt_, 'suu˛' for _sohn_, 'schoof' for _schâf_, 'Schwop' for _Schwâbe_, 'als' for _alles_, and 'as' for _als_. § 4. PG. _not Alsatian_.