--The whole world ain't nothin' but a asylum. It
ain't dangerous, o' course, that he fires bricks at me, an' unscrews
locks and steals house keys--oh, no, that ain't considered dangerous. No,
an' it's all right for him to eat my tulip bulbs. I c'n just go ahead an'
do the best I can.
MRS. FIELITZ
How did that happen at Grabow's the other day--I mean when his inn the
"Prussian Eagle" burned down?
LANGHEINRICH
Aw, Grabow, he needed just that. It wasn't no Gustav that set that there
fire. He wasn't needed there.
MRS. FIELITZ
They say he's always playin' with matches.
RAUCHHAUPT
Gustav an' matches? Aw, that's all right. If he c'n just go an' hunt up
matches some place, trouble ain't very far off. You know I needs
coverin's for my hot house plants; so I built a kind of a shed. I stored
the straw in there. Well, I tell you, Mrs. Fielitz, that there idjit went
an' burned the shed down. It was bright day an' o' course nobody wasn't
thinkin', an' I got loose boards all over my lot. The shed crackled right
off. It wasn't more'n a puff! But Grabow--he took care o' his fire
hisself.
MRS. FIELITZ
I'd give notice about a thing like that, Rauchhaupt--I mean burnin' down
the shed.
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