Charles Follen Adams

Charles Follen Adams (1842–1918) was an American poet. In 1872, he began writing humorous verses for periodicals and newspapers in a Pennsylvania German dialect.

Charles Follen Adams

Quotes

• I haf von funny leedle poy
  Vot comes schust to mine knee;
  Der queerest schap, der createst rogue,
  As ever you dit see.
  He runs und schumps and schmashes dings
  In all barts off der house:
  But vot off dot? He vas mine son,
  Mine leedle Yawcob Strauss.
  • "Yawcob Strauss", in Yawcob Strauss, and Other Poems (1876), p. 11.

• " Tis plain to me
  As A B C,
  My dear friend, Mr. Neff!"
  "Oh, yes! but then,"
  Says Mr. N ,
  "You know I'm D E F!"
  • "Yawcob Strauss", in Yawcob Strauss, and Other Poems (1876), p. 69.

Attributed

• If an S and an I and an O and a U
  With an X at the end spell Su;
  And an E and a Y and an E spell I,
  Pray what is a speller to do?
  Then, if also an S and an I and a G
  And an HED spell side,
  There's nothing much left for a speller to do
  But to go commit siouxeyesighed.
  • An Orthographic Lament; although Adams had published at least one poem playing on the pronunciation of the word Sioux, no firm evidence supports his authorship of this work.

External links

• Adams, Charles Follen, 1842-1918. Papers: Guide at Harvard University.
• Charles Follen Adams Bio.