The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I Part 84
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[_Still incredulous._] What was it set them off?
HORNIG
Who knows? who knows? One says this, another says that.
OLD HILSE
What do they say?
HORNIG
The story as most of 'em tells is that it began with Dreissiger sayin'
that if the weavers was hungry they might eat gra.s.s. But I don't rightly know.
[_Excitement at the door, as one person repeats this to the other, with signs of indignation._
OLD HILSE
Well now, Hornig--if you was to say to me: Father Hilse, says you, you'll die to-morrow, I would answer back: That may be--an' why not? You might even go to the length of saying: You'll have a visit to-morrow from the King of Prussia. But to tell me that weavers, men like me an' my son, have done such things as that--never! I'll never in this world believe it.
MIELCHEN
[_A pretty girl of seven, with long, loose flaxen hair, carrying a basket on her arm, comes running in, holding out a silver spoon to her mother._]
Mammy, mammy! look what I've got! An' you're to buy me a new frock with it.
LUISE
What d'you come tearing in like that for, girl? [_With increased excitement and curiosity._] An' what's that you've got hold of now?
You've been runnin' yourself out o' breath, an' there--if the bobbins aren't in her basket yet? What's all this about?
OLD HILSE
Mielchen, where did that spoon come from?
LUISE
She found it, maybe.
HORNIG
It's worth its seven or eight s.h.i.+llin's at least.
OLD HILSE
[_In distressed excitement._] Off with you, la.s.s--out of the house this moment--unless you want a lickin'! Take that spoon back where you got it from. Out you go! Do you want to make thieves of us all, eh? I'll soon drive that out o' you.
[_He looks round for something to beat her with._
MIELCHEN
[_Clinging to her mother's skirts, crying._] No, grandfather, no! don't lick me! We--we _did_ find it. All the other bob--bobbin ... girls has ... has some too.
LUISE
[_Half frightened, half excited._] I was right, you see. She found it.
Where did you find it, Mielchen?
MIELCHEN
[_Sobbing._] At--at Peterswal--dau. We--we found them in front of--in front of Drei--Dreissiger's house.
OLD HILSE
This is worse an' worse! Get off with you this moment, unless you want me to help you.
MOTHER HILSE
What's all the to-do about?
HORNIG
I'll tell you what, father Hilse. The best way'll be for Gottlieb to put on his coat an' take the spoon to the police-office.
OLD HILSE
Gottlieb, put on year coat.
GOTTLIEB
[_Pulling it on, eagerly._] Yes, an' I'll go right in to the office an'
say they're not to blame us for it, for how c'n a child like that understand about it? an' I brought the spoon back at once. Stop your crying now, Mielchen!
[_The crying child is taken into the opposite room by her mother, who shuts her in and comes back._
HORNIG
I believe it's worth as much as nine s.h.i.+llin's.
GOTTLIEB
Give us a cloth to wrap it in, Luise, so that it'll take no harm. To think of the thing bein' worth all that money!
[_Tears come into his eyes while he is wrapping up the spoon._
LUISE
If it was only ours, we could live on it for many a day.
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