_] I can't help that. Things is
as they is. [_He takes an enormously long draught from the tin can.
Putting it down:_] Ede, drive them ducks away!
EDE
[_Acting as though he were driving away ducks, flaps his leathern apron
and rattles his wooden shoes._] Shoo! Shoo! Shoo! Chuck! Chuck! Chuck!
_MRS. SCHULZE retires into the house, shaking her head._
LANGHEINRICH
Them ducks is your regular fire eaters. There don't need nothin' but for
some sparks to fly off an', right straight off, they gobbles 'em down.
Then we gets what you might call roast duck that never meant to be
roasted. An' my old woman she ain't no friend o' that.
_RAUCHHAUPT looks over the fence to the left._
LANGHEINRICH
There's been a big fire again over there behind Landsberg. All the houses
on a great estate is ashes.
RAUCHHAUPT
Did you maybe see Gustav anywhere?
LANGHEINRICH
Mornin', old boy! No, not me! Has he gone an' run off again?
RAUCHHAUPT
I ordered him to go over to the Fielitzes.
LANGHEINRICH
The Fielitzes have all gone in to town.
RAUCHHAUPT
I don't know, but there's a kind o' burned smell in the air ... Ouch!
[_He distorts his face in pain and grasps his leg.
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