# Die Inshurance Business A serio-comic drama in the Pennsylvania German vernacular, "as she is spoke" in the German districts of Pennsylvania

Author: Grumbine, Ezra, 1845-1923

Genre: Category: Humour

Language: Deutsch

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57044

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.de/s?k=Die+Inshurance+Business+A+serio-comic+drama+in+the+Pennsylvania+German+vernacular%2C+%22as+Grumbine&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

scene. Yokle smoking pipe and plaiting corn husk mat. Ike on the right picking and handing husks to him. Frany, in the center sewing, dressed in cap and white handkerchief pinned across her breast. On left, Grandmother Aunshitz in huge white cap and spectacles seated in arm-chair, scraping an apple and eating it. To her left, Sallie crocheting. Seated on the floor to the left, Abe is covering a ball. Empty chair between Yokle and Frany. Grandmother coughs a great deal._

## Chapters

- [SCENE I.—_Brownschweiger’s sitting-room and kitchen. A family](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/de/books/die-inshurance-business-a-serio-comic-drama-in-the-pennsylvania-844fa8a9/chapters/1/index.md)
- [SCENE III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/de/books/die-inshurance-business-a-serio-comic-drama-in-the-pennsylvania-844fa8a9/chapters/3/index.md)
- [SCENE III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/de/books/die-inshurance-business-a-serio-comic-drama-in-the-pennsylvania-844fa8a9/chapters/7/index.md)
- [SCENE II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/de/books/die-inshurance-business-a-serio-comic-drama-in-the-pennsylvania-844fa8a9/chapters/6/index.md)
- [SCENE II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/de/books/die-inshurance-business-a-serio-comic-drama-in-the-pennsylvania-844fa8a9/chapters/2/index.md)
- [SCENE I.—_Brownschweiger’s sitting room. Enter Yokle and Henner Hoffman.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/de/books/die-inshurance-business-a-serio-comic-drama-in-the-pennsylvania-844fa8a9/chapters/5/index.md)
- [ACT II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/de/books/die-inshurance-business-a-serio-comic-drama-in-the-pennsylvania-844fa8a9/chapters/4/index.md)