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 * It's the Boyg that's unwounded, and the Boyg that was hurt,
 * it's the Boyg that is dead, and the Boyg that's alive.

PEER [throws away the branch].
 * The weapon is troll-smeared; but I have my fists!
 * [Fights his way forward.]

THE VOICE
 * Ay, trust to your fists, lad, trust to your body.
 * Hee-hee, Peer Gynt, so you'll reach the summit.

PEER [falling back again].
 * Forward or back, and it's just as far;-
 * out or in, and it's just as strait!
 * He is there! And there! And he's round the bend!
 * No sooner I'm out than I'm back in the ring.-
 * Name who you are! Let me see you! What are you?

THE VOICE
 * The Boyg.

PEER [groping around].
 * Not dead, not living; all slimy; misty.
 * Not so much as a shape! It's as bad as to battle
 * in a cluster of snarling, half-wakened bears!
 * [Screams.]
 * Strike back at me, can't you!

THE VOICE