SCHULZE
Ain't Mr. Langheinrich back yet?
EDE
Well, o' course he is, naturally. [_MRS. SCHULZE disappears and EDE
withdraws under the shed._] Quick! Take this hammer, will you, Doctor,
an' hammer away a bit. If you kept up your strength the way you have, you
ain't forgot about that neither.
DR. BOXER
I went at locksmith's work like the deuce when there was nothing to do on
board ship. That gave me a very good chance.
EDE
You're a doctor an' you're a smith an' ... I guess you're a sausage maker
too!
DR. BOXER
I even made sausages once.
EDE
Nobody didn't want to eat them, I guess.
DR. BOXER
I wouldn't have advised any one to do so either. The sausages were mainly
filled with arsenic. The rats scarcely left us space to turn around in.
EDE
[_About to set to work._] Ugh! That wouldn't be no kind o' sausage for
me. Come now, Doctor, go at it! We wants the missis to think that two
people is workin' here or she'll never stop axin' questions.
DR. BOXER
Where did Langheinrich go so early?
EDE
That's a secret all right--the kind o' secret that all the sparrows on
the gutters is chirpin'.--Doctor, roll that wheel over here, will you?
You got a chance now to deserve well, as they says, o' the Prussian
state, 'cause this here waggon belongs to the government forester.
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