Excerpt from Memorials of the Reverend Joseph Baugher Bittinger, D.DIt was by association with a little German playmate that Joseph learned to speak German with the readiness and accuracy which were afterwards so remarkable. The boy could speak no English and the two children were forced to communicate in German. The words which Joseph did not understand, he tried to remember, and in the evening would ask his father their meaning.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.