Document Type
Correspondence
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Date
3-5-1948
Keywords
almanac, rhyme, Zodiac signs, weather, Mabel M. Nagle, Pennsylvania Dutch
Description
A handwritten letter from Mabel M. Nagle addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated March 5, 1948. Within, Nagle provides two rhymes and an almanac Zodiac chart along with accompanying verses in Pennsylvania Dutch.
Sender
Mabel M. Nagle
Recipient
Alfred L. Shoemaker
Corresponds to:
Packet 284
City
Birdsboro, Pennsylvania
Transcription
Mar. 5, 1948
Dear Mr. Shoemaker,
Reading, Pa
Dear sir: I am enclosing a chart of the zodiac and the verses to each one. Start upper left hand corner and go clockwise. If I made any errors, perhaps some one knows the correct one, but so far as I can remember, those are the ones we always recited. Also this one.
Hinnick Hanna Hocker Hickory Holy Howpa
Howvich Hunnert Hansa Harrick Huschta
And this jingle; always recited after rainy weather and the sun shines again.
Die Sun scheindt, es Fegely greindt,
Hucked einer uff en Lawda
Undt schpinned en Longa Fawda,
Hucked einer uff em Dauch,
Undt hutt sich hoha doht gelaucht.
Perhaps my spelling isn’t any too good, but I’m sure you will be able to read it.
Yours truly
Mrs. Mabel M. Nagle
Birdsboro Pa RD #2
Language
English and Pennsylvania German
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Recommended Citation
Nagle, Mabel M., "Letter From Mabel M. Nagle to Alfred L. Shoemaker, March 5, 1948" (1948). Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents. 39.
https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/shoemaker_documents/39
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