An' walk'd out feäir, athirt the vloor;

An' there, a-holdèn in his hand

His bridled meäre, a youth did stand,

An' mildly twold his neäme and pleäce

Avore the feäce o' Fanny Deäne.

He twold her that he had on hand

Zome business on his father's zide,

But what she didden understand;

An' zoo she ax'd en if he'd ride

Out where her father mid be vound,