Re: Schöffe III, Vehme

>"drudge, farmservant"
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalawag#Origins_of_the_term
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scallywag#Etymology
>
>Some old half-lost memory of early slavery?
>'During the 1868-69 session of Judge "Greasy" Sam Watts court in
>Haywood County, North Carolina, Dr. William Closs, D.D. testified
>that a scalawag was "a Native born Southern white man who says he
>is no better than a negro and tells the truth when he says it."
>Some accounts record his testimony as "a native Southern white
>man, who says that a negro is as good as he is, and tells the
>truth when he says so."'

By and large, the equivalent of the rural _Knecht_ (fem. Magd)
on farms in the German-speaking countries.

George