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 have tumblers, and a pair of pouters, too. But come here! Can you see that hutch down there by the wall?

Gregers.

Yes; what do you use it for?

Ekdal. That's where the rabbits sleep, sir.

Gregers. Dear me; so you have rabbits too?

Ekdal.

Yes, you may take my word for it, we have rabbits! He wants to know if we have rabbits, Hialmar! H'm! But now comes the thing, let me tell you! Here we have it! Move away, Hedvig. Stand here; that's right,—and now look down there.—Don't you see a basket with straw in it?

Gregers.

Yes. And I can see a fowl lying in the basket.

Ekdal. H'm—"a fowl"

Gregers. Isn't it a duck?

Ekdal. [Hurt.] Why, of course it's a duck.

Hialmar.

But what kind of duck, do you think?

Hedvig. It's not just a common duck