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 * Her name I would rather tell you,
 * the name of the girl, you know-

PEER
 * No, now we will chat together,
 * but only of this and that,-
 * forget what's awry and crooked,
 * and all that is sharp and sore.
 * Are you thirsty? I'll fetch you water.
 * Can you stretch you? The bed is short.
 * Let me see;-if I don't believe, now,
 * It's the bed that I had when a boy!
 * Do you mind, dear, how oft in the evenings
 * you sat at my bedside here,
 * and spread the fur-coverlet o'er me,
 * and sang many a lilt and lay?

ASE
 * Ay, mind you? And then we played sledges
 * when your father was far abroad.
 * The coverlet served for sledge-apron,
 * and the floor for an ice-bound fiord.

PEER
 * Ah, but the best of all, though,-
 * mother, you mind that too?-
 * the best was the fleet-foot horses-

ASE
 * Ay, think you that I've forgot?-
 * It was Kari's cat that we borrowed;
 * it sat on the log-scooped chair-

PEER
 * To the castle west of the moon, and
 * the castle east of the sun,