This interesting Ephrata imprint presents a long poem in which a misanthrope pours out his history and philosophy of life. Written "by one of that class of native Americans known as the Pennsylvania Dutch, a peculiar class of people, of peculiar habits and customs, and perhaps of peculiar turns of thought." (printer's introduction)


A lengthy and slightly doggerel work on the meaning of life from an amateur poet. The printer notes in his introduction, "The printer thought, perchance, the public might be inclined to purchase and read a work by one of that class of native Americans, known as the 'Pennsylvania Dutch,' a peculiar class of people, of peculiar habits and customs, and perhaps of peculiar turns of thought;--"