_] Something's wrong! I'm not answerable! I'm off my head! Off
with you, off with you, rioters that you are! Heads off, legs off, hands
off! If you takes my house, I takes your house. Forward, forward!
[_Goes yelling into the drawing-room, followed by a yelling, laughing
mob._
END OF THE FOURTH ACT
FIFTH ACT
_Langen-Bielau,--OLD WEAVER HILSE'S workroom. On the left a small
window, in front of which stands the loom. On the right a bed, with a
table pushed close to it. Stove, with stove-bench, in the right-hand
corner. Family worship is going on. HILSE, his old, blind, and almost
deaf wife, his son GOTTLIEB, and LUISE, GOTTLIEB'S wife, are sitting
at the table, on the bed and wooden stools. A winding-wheel and
bobbins on the floor between table and loom. Old spinning, weaving,
and winding implements are disposed of on the smoky rafters; hanks of
yarn are hanging down. There is much useless lumber in the low narrow
room. The door, which is in the back wall, and leads into the big
outer passage, or entry-room of the house, stands open. Through
another open door on the opposite side of the passage, a second, in
most respects similar weaver's room is seen.
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