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 :but only of this and that,-
 * forget what's awry and crooked,
 * and all that is sharp and sore.-
 * Why see now, the same old pussy;
 * so she is alive then, still?

ASE
 * She makes such a noise o' nights now;
 * you know what that bodes, my boy!

PEER [changing the subject].
 * What news is there here in the parish?

ASE [smiling].
 * There's somewhere about, they say,
 * a girl who would fain to the uplands-

PEER [hastily].
 * Mads Moen, is he content?

ASE
 * They say that she hears and heeds not
 * the old people's prayers and tears.
 * You ought to look in and see them;-
 * you, Peer, might perhaps bring help-

PEER
 * The smith, what's become of him now?

ASE
 * Don't talk of that filthy smith