But if you don't risk nothin', you don't
get nothin'. An' when onct you're rich, Julius, an' c'n go and sit in
your own carridge, there ain't nobody what's goin' to ask where you got
it! Sure, if we was to take it from poor people! But now suppose
really--suppose we went over to the Kruegers and put the two loads o'
wood on a sleigh an' took 'em into our shed--them people ain't no poorer
on that account!
JULIUS
Wood? What you startin' after again now with wood?
MRS. WOLFF
Now that shows how you don't take notice o' nothin'! They c'n work your
daughter till she drops; they c'n try an' make her drag in wood at ten
o'clock in the evenin'. That's why she run away. An' you take that kind
o' thing an' say thank you. Maybe you'd give the child a hidin' and send
her back to the people.
JULIUS
Sure!--That's what!--What d'you think ...
MRS. WOLFF
Things like that hadn't ought to go unpunished. If anybody hits me, I'll
hit him back. That's what I says.
JULIUS
Well, did they go an' hit the girl?
MRS. WOLFF
Why should she be runnin' away, Julius? But no, there ain't no use tryin'
to do anything with you. Now the wood is lyin' out there in the alley.
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