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Show Its Origin. Any one who thiuks that the English language lan-guage is musical and easy to be pronounced because it is the one to which his ear and tongue are most accftstomed, and who hears, when German is pronounced, only its harshness and its gutturals, will appreciate appre-ciate the Rev. Mr. Spurgeon's account of the origin of German. "Do you know," asked he of a friend one day, "how the German language originated?" orig-inated?" "No," was the reply. "Well," said the preacher, "I do. There were two workmen at the Tower of Babel, one. standing above the other. The upper-' most one accidentally threw some mortar from his trowel into the mouth of the lower one, and he began to sputter with the mortar mor-tar in his mouth. The sound is now known as German!" |