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 PEER
 * That's right, don't spare your tongue;
 * that does no one any harm.
 * Now it's shelving up again-

ASE
 * Don't you drop me!

PEER
 * Heisan! Hop!
 * Now we'll play at Peer and reindeer;-
 * [Curvetting.]
 * I'm the reindeer, you are Peer!

ASE
 * Oh, I'm going clean distraught!

PEER
 * There see; now we've reached the shallows;-
 * [Wades ashore.]
 * come, a kiss now, for the reindeer;
 * just to thank him for the ride-

ASE [boxing his ears].
 * This is how I thank him!

PEER
 * Ow!
 * That's a miserable fare!

ASE
 * Put me down!

PEER
 * First to the weddin