[_Both eat._
MRS. WOLFF
Look here, Julius, we're out of wood, too.
JULIUS
An' you want me to go this minute, I suppose?
MRS. WOLFF
It'd be best if we got busy right off.
JULIUS
I don't feel my own bones no more. Anybody that wants to go c'n go. I
ain't.
MRS. WOLFF
You men folks always does a whole lot o' talkin', an' when it comes to
the point, you can't do nothin'. I'd work enough to put the crowd of you
in a hole and drag you out again too. If you ain't willin' to go to-night
by no means, why, you've got to go to-morrow anyhow. So what good is it?
How are the climbin' irons? Sharp?
JULIUS
I loaned 'em to Karl Machnow.
MRS. WOLFF
[_After a pause._] If only you wasn't such a coward!--We might get a few
loads o' wood in a hurry, an' we wouldn't have to work ourselves blue in
the face neither.--No, nor we wouldn't have to go very far for 'em.
JULIUS
Aw, let me eat a bite, will you?
MRS. WOLFF
[_Punches his head amicably._] Don't always be so rough, I'm goin' to be
good to you now for onct. You watch. [_Fetching a bottle of whiskey and
showing it to him._] Here! See? I brought that for you. Now you c'n make
a friendly face, all right.
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