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"Good day, brother Hohenstolz. How are you?" "Very well, I thank you,
Pif-paf Poltrie." "May I marry your sister?" "Oh, yes! if the father
Hollenthe, the mother Malcho, the sister Kasetraut, and the fair
Catherine are willing, it may be so.
"Where is, then, the sister Kasetraut?"
"In the garden, cutting the cabbages."
"Good day, sister Kasetraut. How do you do?" "Very well, I thank you,
Pif-paf Poltrie." "May I marry your sister?" "Oh, yes! if the father
Hollenthe, the mother Malcho, the brother Hohenstolz, and the fair
Catherine are willing, it may be so."
"Where is, then, the fair Catherine?"
"In her chamber, counting out her pennies."
"Good day, fair Catherine. How do you do?" "Very well, I thank you,
Pif-paf Poltrie." "Will you be my bride?" "Oh, yes! if the father
Hollenthe, the mother Malcho, the brother Hohenstolz, and the sister
Kasetraut are willing, so am I."
"How much money have you, fair Catherine?"
"Fourteen pennies in bare money, two and a half farthings owing to me,
half a pound of dried apples, a handful of prunes, and a handful of
roots; and don't you call that a capital dowry? Pif-paf Poltrie, what
trade are you? Are you a tailor?"
"Better than that.
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