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skirt at which some one has been working is thrown across the chair.
A bodice lies on the machine itself. A door in the rear wall leads to
a little sleeping-chamber immediately under the roof. To the left of
this door a brown tile-oven; to its right, a yellow wardrobe. In the
right wall there is likewise a door which opens upon the hall. Behind
this door a neatly made bed and a yellow chest of drawers. Above this
chest hangs a seven-day clock. The SHOEMAKER FIELITZ stands in his
stocking feet upon the chest of drawers and winds the clock._
_In the middle of the room an extension table. A hanging lamp above
it. Four yellow chairs surround the table, a fifth--of the same set
stands near the bed. LANGHEINRICH and EDE, _dressed in their
working-clothes, are busy at the table. LANGHEINRICH holds an iron
weather-vane which EDE is painting red._
_EDE and LANGHEINRICH break out in loud laugh._
FIELITZ
[_Who has been minding the clock while the others have been laughing._]
Somebody's been pokin' around here again.
LANGHEINRICH
You c'n bet on that. I s'ppose that's what's happened. You'd better watch
out more.
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