--If we could
only arrange all to join together, we'd soon give the manufacturers a
proper lesson ... we wouldn't need no King an' no Government ... all we'd
have to do would be to say: We wants this and that, and we don't want the
other thing. There would be a change of days then. As soon as they see
that there's some pluck in us, they'll cave in. I know the rascals;
they're a pack o' cowardly hounds.
MOTHER BAUMERT
There's some truth in what you say. I'm not a bad woman. I've always been
the one to say as how there must be rich folks as well as poor. But when
things come to such a pass as this ...
JAEGER
The devil may take them all, for what I care. It would be no more than
they deserves.
[_OLD BAUMERT has quietly gone out._
BERTHA
Where's father?
MOTHER BAUMERT
I don't know where he can have gone.
BERTHA
Do you think he's not been able to stomach the meat, with not gettin'
none for so long?
MOTHER BAUMERT
[_In distress, crying._] There now, there! He's not even able to keep it
down when he's got it. Up it comes again, the only bite o' good food as
he's tasted this many a day.
_Re-enter OLD BAUMERT, crying with rage._
OLD BAUMERT
It's no good! I'm too far gone! Now that I've at last got hold of
somethin' with a taste in it, my stomach won't keep it.
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