This play is one of the first puppet plays published in Dutch in 1852, under the name Kluchtspelen voor de Ronzebons of Poppekast. The publication is accompanied by an engraving by Jan ter Gouw depicting the character of Jan Klaassen in a hand-puppet booth in front of an audience of mainly women and children. The author of the text remains unknown.

Jan Klaassen meets with Langhals, whose neck inconceivably grows longer and longer. Langhals disappears when Jan Klaassen throws himself at him to break his neck. Jan Klaassen violently bangs himself. Katrijn, his wife, hears his screams and comes running: she tells him that she would have rather found him dead. Jan Klaassen wants to beat her with a stick. During their pursuit, Death appears in Katrijn’s stead. Jan Klaassen raises his stick and Death disappears. Jan Klaassen decides to go for a drink, but changes his mind at the last minute and ends the play with a song condemning alcoholism and its harmful effects.