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 PEER
 * Well, good-bye then, mother dear!
 * Patience; I'll be back ere long.

[Is going, but turns, holds up his finger warningly, and says:]
 * Careful now, don't kick and sprawl!
 * [Goes.]

ASE
 * Peer!-God help me, now he's off;
 * Reindeer-rider! Liar! Hei!
 * Will you listen!-No, he's striding
 * o'er the meadow-! [Shrieks.] Help! I'm dizzy!

[TWO OLD WOMEN, with sacks on their backs, come down the path to the mill.] FIRST WOMAN
 * Christ, who's screaming?

ASE
 * It is I!

SECOND WOMAN
 * Ase! Well, you are exalted!

ASE
 * This won't be the end of it;-
 * soon, God help me, I'll be heaven-high!

FIRST WOMAN
 * Bless your passing!

ASE
 * Fetch a ladder;
 * I must be down! That devil Peer-

SECOND WOMA