Excerpt from In the Year 13: A Tale of Mecklenburg Though his name is unknown in England, in Germany he is one of the most popular authors of the day. His stories and poems are written in Platt deutsch, and are read Wherever that dialect is spoken, that is to say throughout Northern, or Lower, Ger many, extending from Meme] in the extreme North East to aix-la-chapelle in the South West, and even the Germans of the more southern and higher lying States, Where Platt-deutsch is unknown, now frequently learn it for the sole purpose of reading Renter's works. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.