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 PEER
 * I can call up the devil!

A MAN
 * My grandam could do that before I was born!

PEER
 * Liar! What I can do, that no one else can.
 * I one day conjured him into a nut.
 * It was worm-bored, you see!

SEVERAL [laughing].
 * Ay, that's easily guessed!

PEER
 * He cursed, and he wept, and he wanted to bribe me
 * with all sorts of things-

ONE OF THE CROWD
 * But he had to go in?

PEER
 * Of course. I stopped up the hole with a peg.
 * Hei! If you'd heard him rumbling and grumbling!

A GIRL
 * Only think!

PEER
 * It was just like a humble-bee buzzing.

THE GIRL
 * Have you got him still in the nut?

PEER
 * Why, no;
 * by this time that devil has flown on his way.
 * The grudge the smith bears me is all his doing.

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