Dear Gisela--- do you want me to edit this post which you have already
sent? It is really a little bit confusing.....I will make some suggestions
as best I can. If you want to repost it then, that's fine with me.
Suggested changes are in { }
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> FRIEND OF THE CHILDREN AND LEVERS
{I don't understand "levers"--do you mean "lovers"? }
>
> Nikolaus lived in {the 4th}century in today's Turkey.{His}
>grave can be
> visited in the Myraer church, in which {he} served as a bishop.
> {About} St. Nikolaus, {who} is { the} friend of children and
>{lovers?},
> many legends {have been} told.
THE FOLLOWING 2 SENTENCES ARE NOT CLEAR:
Pupils, whom a cash-greedy host had killed, it is to
have shown the life.
{He} threw three gold lumps into a room, in order to prevent
that poor daughters must earn
themselves outer-expensively on the road.
> Because the gold lumps fell by a fire-place directly into the
>socks
> of the women, the custom developed to place its {
>deseamed--this is not an English
word } shoes
> before the door or to hang a sock to the fire-place around the
>turn of the century.
> In the Berchtesgadener country, Nikolaus {is accompanied} by
>farmhands
> Ruprecht and Bertha (Nikoloweibl). In some areas{ St.}
>Nikolaus {secretly brings the decorated
> Christmas tree in the house on Christmas Eve. }
> Greetings
>Gisela
>40/3
I do not want to offend you--but if you want to send me such a post BEFORE
you send it to the list, I will edit it for you-- most of them are pretty
understandable even if not perfect English, so it is up to you.
your friend, Camilla
