KRAUSE and MRS. SPILLER exchange a look._
HOFFMANN
[_To KAHL, who is squeezing a lemon with his teeth._] Haven't seen you
for two days, Mr. Kahl. Have you been busy shooting mice?
KAHL
N-naw ...
HOFFMANN
[_To LOTH._] Mr. Kahl, I must tell you, is passionately fond of hunting.
KAHL
M-m-mice is i-infamous amphibies.
HELEN
[_Bursts out._] It's too silly. He can't see anything wild or tame
without killing it.
KAHL
Las' night I sh-shot our ol' s-sow.
LOTH
Then I suppose that shooting is your chief occupation.
MRS. KRAUSE
Mr. Kahl, he just does that fer his own private pleasure.
MRS. SPILLER
Forest, game and women--as his Excellency the Minister von Schadendorf
often used to say.
KAHL
'N d-day after t-t'morrow we're g-goin' t' have p-pigeon sh-sh-shooting.
LOTH
What is that--pigeon shooting?
HELEN
Ah, I can't bear such things. Surely it's a very merciless sport. Rough
boys who throw stones at window panes are better employed.
HOFFMANN
You go too far, Helen.
HELEN
I don't know. According to my feeling it's far more sensible to break
windows, than to tether pigeons to a post and then shoot bullets into
them.
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