So, good
evening! Don't forget--we've got to have a strong parade.
FIELITZ
That's right. You can't do them things without one.
[_Exit WEHRHAHN._
FIELITZ
You go an' take that candle out! Will you, please?
MRS. FIELITZ
You're as easy scared as a rabbit, Anton! That's what you are--a reg'lar
rabbit.
_She takes the candle out of the little box. Almost at the same
moment RAUCHHAUPT opens the door and looks in._
RAUCHHAUPT
Good evenin'. Am I intrudin'?
FIELITZ
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MRS. FIELITZ
Aw, come right into our parlour!
RAUCHHAUPT
Ain't Langheinrich the smith come in yet?
MRS. FIELITZ
Was he goin' to come? No, he ain't been here.
RAUCHHAUPT
We made a special engagement.--I brought along the cross too. Here,
Gustav! Bring that there cross in! [_GUSTAV brings in a cross of cast
iron with an inscription on it._] Go an' put it down on that there box.
FIELITZ
[_Quickly._] No, never mind, Edward, that'll break.
RAUCHHAUPT
Then you c'n just lean it against the wall.
MRS. FIELITZ
So you got through with it at last. [_Calls out through the door._]
Leontine! You come down a minute!
RAUCHHAUPT
Trouble is I had so much to do.
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