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 a reindeer-skull].
 * Here is the wonderful reindeer that bore,
 * at Gendin, Peer Gynt over edge and scaur.

A THIRD [with a hammer, calls out to the MAN IN MOURNING].
 * Hei, Aslak, this sledge-hammer, say, do you know it?
 * Was it this that you used when the devil clove the wall?

A FOURTH [empty-handed].
 * Mads Moen, here's the invisible cloak
 * Peer Gynt and Ingrid flew off through the air with.

PEER
 * Brandy here, boys! I feel I'm grown old;-
 * I must put up to auction my rubbish and lumber!

A LAD
 * What have you to sell, then?

PEER
 * A palace I have-
 * it lies in the Ronde; it's solidly built.

THE LAD
 * A button is bid!

PEER
 * You must run to a dram.
 * 'Twere a sin and a shame to bid anything less.

ANOTHER
 * He's a jolly old boy this!
 * [The bystanders crowd round him.]

PEER [shouts].