"Schinko, what do you bring the bride for your wedding present?"
And Schinko details what he brings her:
"Two gay-colored beds, a cloak of Karassia cloth lined with fox, a breastplate with silver buttons, a kokosnik set with pearls, two pair of red boots, an embroidered linen shirt, twelve zinc plates, a dish, and a gold-embroidered head-dress and veil—if she behaves well!"
All these gifts were brought round by the bridegroom's supporters, and severally shown to the guests.
The bride, on her side, gives the bridegroom clothes, ornaments, household utensils, and, last, a bundle of birch rods, "with which he is to chastise me when I do not behave well."
Now it is the turn of the second couple.
"Well, Polyka, and what do you bring your bridegroom?"
But this well-assorted couple are not content that one should speak before the other; one interrupts the other, and they splutter out:
"I, a ragged cloak."
"I, a pot with a hole in it."