[_She fills a glass for her husband._
JULIUS
[_Drinks._] That's fine--in this cold weather--fine.
MRS. WOLFF
Well, you see? Don't I take care o' you?
JULIUS
That was pretty good, pretty good all right.
[_He fills the glass anew and drinks._
MRS. WOLFF
[_After a pause. She is splitting kindling wood and eating a bite now and
then._] Wulkow--that feller--he's a regular rascal--. He always--acts--as
if he was hard up.
JULIUS
Aw, he'd better shut up--he with his trade!
MRS. WOLFF
You heard that about the beaver coat, didn't you?
JULIUS
Naw, I didn't hear nothin'.
MRS. WOLFF
[_With assumed carelessness._] Didn't you hear the girl tell how Mrs.
Krueger has given Krueger a fur coat?
JULIUS
Well, them people has the money.
MRS. WOLFF
That's true. An' then Wulkow was sayin' ... you musta heard ... that if
he could get hold of a coat like that some day, he'd give as much as a
seventy crowns for it.
JULIUS
You just let him go and get into trouble his own self.
MRS. WOLFF
[_After a pause, refilling her husband's glass._] Come now, you c'n stand
another.
JULIUS
Well, go ahead, go ahead! What in...!
_MRS.
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