FRITZ
Where's grandfather gone?
EMMA
To the manufacturer, Fritz, with a web.
FRITZ
To the manufacturer?
EMMA
Yes, yes, Fritz, down to Dreissiger's at Peterswaldau.
FRITZ
Is it there he gets the bread?
EMMA
Yes; Dreissiger gives him money, and then he buys the bread.
FRITZ
Does he give him a heap of money?
EMMA
[_Impatiently._] Oh, stop that chatter, boy.
[_She and BERTHA go on weaving for a time, and then both stop again._
BERTHA
August, go and ask Ansorge if he'll give us a light.
[_AUGUST goes out accompanied by FRITZ._
MOTHER BAUMERT
[_Overcome by her childish apprehension, whimpers._] Emma! Bertha! where
c'n the man be stay-in'?
BERTHA
Maybe he looked in to see Hauffe.
MOTHER BAUMERT
[_Crying._] What if he's sittin' drinkin' in the public-house?
EMMA
Don't cry, mother! You know well enough father's not the man to do that.
MOTHER BAUMERT
[_Half distracted by a multitude of gloomy forebodings._] What ... what
... what's to become of us if he don't come home? if he drinks the money,
an' don't bring us nothin' at all? There's not so much as a handful o'
salt in the house--not a bite o' bread, nor a bit o' wood for the fire.
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