To ride mit dem fellers? I don’t feel inclined;
De vay day drives de buggy, it makes me feel veak,
Un I vants to get married mit Hans Dunder next veek.”
Den her fader got mad un he shvear his “gott dam!”
She never must marry mit any young man.
“If you love dis Hans Dunder, you may go take his bags,
Mit his hooks, un his paskets, un go gadder rags.”
Katarina now back to de kitchen she ran,
Saying, “I’ll eat up mine preakfast so fast vot I can;
Den I’ll dravel avay, ash I can’t been his vife;”