English Translation

2. /7 Amiable and lively swabs,below in the valley it is also beautiful,but who can describe the feeling,if one who is of their flesh and blood, is a therber and hard Eurasian in wooden slippers,the pants in the stockings,the hand reaches with a warm "willcome" or "globe be Christud".And the beds rush to Hauf and from the walls greet the 50 holy images and an old clock buzzes through the parlor and the howling spirit swings in the window and on the cornice flowery plates and pots with bright gold inscription "For remembrance" and at the white-scattered unpaste table the black bread and in the thrust of the calendar with steep crimped letterings, when the red one calved and the pig scourged; the pipes of the invited steam funny and At home, however, one does not speak otherwise, these same words, the same consequence, these special expressions, which a high German never understood, and one speaks of at home and of what the fathers told and of the laborious beginning and the difficult times, and the one tells half-delegation to a murmur, which I already heard at home, and a second already completely different. by the way he should blow the clarinet beautifully, sings a Egerländer Lidl.........all this far east, in Galicia-da should not open one's heart ?. Yes, it is said that too much.Egerland's communities in Ga-lia have preserved their peculiarity much better than those from which they have immigrated and in which the modern and certainly unsettled habitation, which destroys the old without new in full and wonderful. It is precisely oppression that has brought people up,and not, as one should assume, under pressure that the German colonists are pure and only on themselves, their strength and their intelligence, has detached in them the best in the human being, has steeled them and has pronounced himan tenderness, sobriety and tenacity. The German villages are the richest in the country, among them again the Swabian-Protestant the more prosperous, the Catholic