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It is quite true that, strictly speaking, the forms with Th-d, are Low- German, and those with D-t, High-German, but before we trust ourselves to this division for historical purposes, we must remember three facts: that Proper Names frequently defy Grimm's Law; that in High-German MSS. much depends on the locality in which they are written; that High-German is not in the strict sense of the word a corruption of Low- German, and, at all events, not, as Grimm supposed, chronologically posterior to Low-German, but that the two are parallel dialects, like Doric and Aeolic, the Low-German being represented by the earliest literary documents, Gothic and Saxon, the High-German asserting its literary presence later, not much before the eighth century, but afterwards maintaining its literary and political supremacy from the time of Charlemagne to the present day.
"Yes: that's a funny joke," returned the other, unmoved; "but did you ever hear of any one sneaking D-T cases across the county line at night to a pest-house run by a political friend of O'Farrell's?" "Can't say I have." "Or burying the dead in quicklime?" "Quicklime? What's this, 'Clarion' sensationalism?" "Don't be young. I'm telling you. Quicklime. Canadaga County." Not only had Dr.
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