"Now, Kate, you must fall to and be very industrious and work hard."
"All right, Fred, I will go into the field and cut corn," said she.
And when she came into the field she said to herself,
"Shall I eat before I cut, or shall I sleep before I cut? well, I will eat first." And so she ate, and after that she felt sleepy, but she began to cut and went on half asleep cutting her own clothes, skirts, gown, and all, and when she at last woke up and found herself in rags, she said to herself,
"Is this really I or not? oh dear, it is not I!"
After a while night came on, and Kate ran into the village and knocked at her husband's door calling out, "Fred!"
"What is it?" said he.
"I want to know if Kate is at home," said she.
"Oh yes," he answered, "she is lying here fast asleep."
So she said to herself, "All right then, I am certainly at home," and she ran on farther.