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 up? A MAN
 * Oh no,
 * that you're certainly not; for I've heard the most on't
 * from my grandfather-

PEER
 * Liar! It happened to me!

THE MAN
 * Yes, like everything else.

PEER [with a fling].
 * I can ride, I can,
 * clean through the air, on the bravest of steeds!
 * Oh, many's the thing I can do, I tell you!
 * [Another roar of laughter.]

ONE OF THE GROUP
 * Peer, ride through the air a bit!

MANY
 * Do, dear Peer Gynt-!

PEER
 * You may spare you the trouble of begging so hard.
 * I will ride like a hurricane over you all!
 * Every man in the parish shall fall at my feet!

AN ELDERLY MAN
 * Now he is clean off his head.

ANOTHER
 * The dolt!

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