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 KARI
 * Indeed but they do.

ASE
 * When that is done, I must get to bed;
 * I feel so broken, and frail, and ill-
 * [Joyfully.]
 * Two woollen-shirts, Kari;-they've passed them by!

KARI
 * So they have indeed.

ASE
 * It's a bit of luck.
 * One of the two you may put aside;
 * or rather, I think we'll e'en take them both;-
 * the one he has on is so worn and thin.

KARI
 * But oh, Mother Ase, I fear it's a sin!

ASE
 * Maybe; but remember, the priest holds out
 * pardon for this and our other sinnings.

SCENE THIRD
[In front of a settler's newly-built hut in the forest. A reindeer's horns over the door. The snow is lying deep around. It is dusk.] [PEER GYNT is standing outside the door, fastening a large wooden bar to it.] PEER [laughing betweenwhiles].
 * Bars I must fix me; bars that can fasten