People has to have a little.
DR. BOXER
Yes, those people are entitled to cultivate their own pleasures. And
then, Langheinrich, a higher principle has to be represented somehow.
LANGHEINRICH
Sure, an' it brings people out here too, you c'n believe me. Buildin'
lots has gone up considerable.
EDE
That's so. An' there was a man onct that didn't have no roof over his
head ... No, that ain't the way to begin what I want to say.--I was onct
out on the heath--far out. All of a sudden: what d'you think I heard,
Doctor! I heard a dickens of a screechin'.--I goes up to it. Crows! Yes,
sir. There was a feller hangin' high up in a pine tree--tailor's
journeyman from over in Berkenbruck: he hanged hisself on account o'
starvation--hanged hisself high up.--Yes, there's always got to be
somethin' higher!
[_While they finish drinking their beer the long-drawn cries of pain
of a man's voice are heard from some distance. The wind has risen
considerably._
DR. BOXER
What is that?
EDE
Rauchhaupt. Nothin' to worry about.
LANGHEINRICH
Sounds kind o' gruesome, don't it? 'Tain't nothin' very lovely neither.
When that feller's pains in his leg gets hold o' him an' he roars out
that way o' nights--that goes right through an' through any one.
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