I'm straight from Gruenau. An' there I heard it
for certain. They shot Fritz Weber. They just about filled his breeches
with lead.
MRS. WOLFF
What are you goin' to give? That's the main thing.
WULKOW
[_Feeling the stag._] The trouble is I got four o' them bucks lyin' at
home now.
MRS. WOLFF
That ain't goin' to make your boat sink.
WULKOW
An' I don't want her to do that. That wouldn't be no joke. But what's the
good if I get stuck with the things here. I've gotta get 'em in to
Berlin. It's been hard enough work on the river all day, an' if it goes
on freezin' this way, there'll be no gettin' along to-morrow. Then I c'n
sit in the ice with my boat, an' then I've got these things for fun.
MRS. WOLFF
[_Apparently changing her mind._] Girl, you run down to Schulze. Say
how-dee-do an' he's to come up a while, cause mother has somethin' to
sell.
WULKOW
Did I say as I wasn't goin' to buy it?
MRS. WOLFF
It's all the same to me who buys it.
WULKOW
Well, I'm willin' to.
MRS. WOLFF
Any one that don't want it can let it be.
WULKOW
I'll buy this feller! What's he worth?
MRS. WOLFF
[_Touching the venison._] This here piece weighs a good thirty pounds.
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