New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-02-25
Setting a Hen.

Meester Verris-I see dot mosd
eHerpoty wrides someding for de
schicken bapers nowtays, and |
fought praps meppe | can do dot too,
so | wride all apout vat dock blaze
NIT me lasht summer; you know -
oder if you dond know, den | dells
you-dot Katrina (dot is mine yrow)
and HE, We keep some shickens for IA
long dime ago, und Won tay she said
to me ''Sockery," dot is mein name
IVY dond you put some of de aigs
under dot oft plue hen shickens, |
drinks she wants to sate.' ''Vell''
| salt, ''meppe I guess l vill," so !
blcked out some ufde best aigs und
dock UNI oud do de parn, fere de oft
hen make her nesht in de side uf DE-
haymow, poud five six veet up; now
you see nefer was ferry big up und
town, but l vos booty pig all de way
Ground in de mittle, so I koodn't
reach up dill vent and got a parrel
do slant on; veil l klimet me on de
parrel, und ven my he'd rise up by
de nesht, dot oft hen she give such
blck dot my nose runs all ofer my
face NIT plood, und ven l todge pack
dot blasted old parrel he preak, und
| vent town kershlam; by cholly, I
dind't tink | kood go inside parrel
before, put dere I vos, lind fit SO
dite dot | koodn't get HE oud efer.
way, my fest (vest) vas pushed way
up under my armholes. Ven fount
[ vos dite shtuck, I heller, "Katri.
ma! Katrina!" und ven she COON and
see me shtuck in de parrel up to my
armholes, NIT my face all plood and
aigs; by cholly, she shust lait town
OH de hay and laft und laft, till [ got
so mat / salt, ''vot you lay dere und
laf like oft WOOL, eh? w dond you
koom bull me oud!' und she set up
and salt, "Oh, wipe off your chin,
und bull your vest town. den she
lait back und laft like she wood
shblit herself more as ever. Mat as
| vas fought to myself, Katrina,
she sbeak English booty goot, but /
only salt, NIT my greatest dignitude,
''Katrina, will yon bull me oud dis
parrel!" und she see dot l look booty
red, so she said, "uf course | viii
Sockery," den she lait me und de
parrel town on our site, und | took
hold de door sill, und Katrina she
bull on de- parrel, but de first bull
she mate | ycl!ct. ''donner und
hlitzcn, shtop dat, Ply golly! dere is
nails in de parrel!" you see de nails
bent town ven / vent in, but wen |
koom oud dey schtlcks in me all de
way rount; veil, to make short
shtory long. / told Katrina to 90
und dell naybor Hansman to pring
saw und saw me dis parrel off; veil
he koom md he like to shblit him.
self NIT laf too, but he roll me Offer
and saw de parrel all de way around |
off, und | git up nit half parrel |
around my waist; den Katrina she
say, ''Sockery, wait little till | get
a battern of dot new oferskirt you
hat on. but | didn't salt wort. /
shust got nife oud and vittle de
hoops off uad shling dot contountet
oft parrel in de wood pile.
Pimeby ven l koom in de house
Katrina she said, so soft like, ''Sock-.
cry, dond you goin to put some aigs
under dot oft plue hem" den | salt,
in my deepest voice, ''Katrina, uf
you effer say dot to me again I'll
git pill from you, help me chiminy |
Gracious, and | dell you, she didn't |
say dotany more. Veil, Mr.. Yer
ris, ven I step on q parrel now, I
dond step on it, | git pox. Very |
drooly yours, SoCKERY KADAHcUr.
Poultry Monthly.