Lewis Carroll ess dee Schriewanohme fe Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Professa fe Mathematik aum Christ Church College, Oxford. Dodgson fong aun disse Jeschijcht aum 4 Juli, 1862, too vetalle auls hee mett veea aundre toop eene Foaht oppe Lomm oppem Themes Riefa bie Oxford muak. Pradja Robinson Duckworth enn dree Madtjes weare mett von dee Partie: Alice Liddell, dee tien-joahsche Dochta vom Dekan vonne Christ Tjoatj, enn ahre Sesta Lorina, drettien Joah oolt, enn Edith, dee jinjste Sesta mett acht Joah. Daut Jedijcht aum Aunfong vonne Jeschijcht besajcht, daut dee dree doaropp bestunde, daut...

Jack Thiessen is an educated tale spinner. This book contains an entire legacy of Mennonite Short Stories, from bragging to preaching, from laughing out loud to consolation and love and, also, the saddest of tears. One does well in reading a story a day, for a week or a month, for that matter, and enjoying the humour and the wisdom of a community coming alive as never before. --- Jack Thiessen ess een jegromda Resserieta. Een gaunzet Oawgoot von Mennonitische Kortjeschichte send enn dissem Buak too finje: von puche bett predje, von loosbradre bett Troost enn Leew, enn uck de trurichste...

In addition to being the Samuel Johnson of Low German, a linguist nonpareil, and connoisseur of fine art and fine food, Jack Thiessen is a raconteur the way Mozart and John Driedger were musicians. The stories are simply there, and as they mature within him, he draws them up and releases them. Naturally they surface in the Low German dialect, and come garnished with humour. Like halvah and all fine things, they are best savoured slowly. --- Jack Thiessen ess nich bloo dee mennischa Samuel Johnson, een Lexigraph sondajlitje, oba uck een resserietenda Feinschmatja enn Sache Konst enn goodet...