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BURGOMASTER. Quiet, back there! Secondly: Said adventurer has
spoken outrageously of the administration in that he has made
defamatory speeches against the city's departed burgomaster. We
would hear a few impartial citizens--Master Shoemaker, what, in
your opinion, does he merit?
SHOEMAKER. I vote with the administration.
BURGOMASTER. Quite right; he should be held in contempt. What say
you, Master Chiropodist?
CHIROPODIST. I concur.
BURGOMASTER. And the wagonmaker?
WAGONMAKER. I have the honor to agree with the last speaker.
ONE OF THE PEOPLE. Those who have the right to speak are silent.
BURGOMASTER. Silence, back there! On the ground of what has already
been advanced, with the support of conclusive evidence, the
adventurer named Pehr [no family name] is hereby sentenced for
vicious utterances against the administration to stand in the
pillory two hours, later to be expelled from the city, to his
everlasting disgrace and as a warning to others.
PEHR. Herr Burgomaster, the proofs are lacking.
BURGOMASTER. We require none. Axiom, or self-evident points,
neither can nor need be proved. Away with him! [Pehr is led off.]
BURGOMASTER. Thirdly: In consideration of the vexatious as well as
unforeseen incident that the city's dogs give unseemly expression
to their inward feelings for the hideous around the pedestal of
Hans Schulze's statue, an appropriation is demanded for an iron
railing around the same. Surely no one will refuse a deserving man
such trifling act of respect?
QUALIFIED VOTERS.
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