"What can you do?"
"Anything with my hands but I bane not much good on head work."
"Can you clean a house and serve a meal?"
"Yah!"
"Perhaps you can cook too!"
"I can cuke some."
"What nationality are you?"
"I bane Luther."
"German?" smiling.
"Naw! I bane Swede," and Josie permitted an expression of disgust to flit over her otherwise blank countenance.