Well, he didn't learn to have no education. An' that'd be just the same thing with you if I hadn't brought you up to be educated. [_Holding a saucepan over the oven: to LEONTINE:_] Come now, put it in! [_LEONTINE places the pieces of washed venison into the sauce-pan._] So, now go to bed. LEONTINE [_Goes into the next room. While she is still visible, she says:_] Oh, mama, Motes has moved away from Krueger. MRS. WOLFF I guess he didn't pay no rent. LEONTINE It was just like pullin' a tooth every time, Mr. Krueger says, but he paid. Anyhow, he says, he had to kick him out. He's such a lyin' loudmouthed fellow, and always so high and mighty toward Mr. Krueger. MRS. WOLFF If I had been in Mr. Krueger's place I wouldn't ha' kept him that long. LEONTINE Because Mr. Krueger used to be a carpenter onct, that's why Motes always acts so contemptuous. And then, too, he quarrelled with Dr. Fleischer. MRS. WOLFF Well, anybody that'll quarrel with _him_...! I ain't sayin' anythin', but them people wouldn't harm a fly! LEONTINE They won't let him come to the Fleischers no more. MRS. WOLFF If you could get a chanct to work for them people some day! LEONTINE They treat the girls like they was their own children. MRS. WOLFF And his brother in Berlin, he's cashier in a theatre. WULKOW [_Has knocked at the door repeatedly and now calls out in a hoarse voice._] Ain't you goin' to have the kindness to let me in. MRS. WOLFF Well, I should say! Why not! Walk right in! WULKOW [_Comes in. He is a lighterman on the Spree river, near sixty years old, bent, with a greyish-yellow beard that frames his head from ear to ear but leaves his weather-beaten face free._] I wish you a very good evenin'. MRS. WOLFF Look at him comin' along again to take in a woman a little bit. WULKOW I've give up tryin' that this long while! MRS. WOLFF Maybe, but that's the way it's goin' to be anyhow. WULKOW T'other way roun', you mean. MRS. WOLFF What'll it be next?--Here it's hangin'! A grand feller, eh? WULKOW I tell you, Julius ought to be lookin' out sharp. They's gettin' to be pretty keen again. MRS. WOLFF What are you goin' to give us for it, that's the main thing. What's the use o' jabberin'? WULKOW Well, I'm tellin' you. I'm straight from Gruenau. An' there I heard it for certain. They shot Fritz Weber. They just about filled his breeches with lead. MRS. WOLFF What are you goin' to give? That's the main thing. WULKOW [_Feeling the stag._] The trouble is I got four o' them bucks lyin' at home now. MRS. WOLFF That ain't goin' to make your boat sink. WULKOW An' I don't want her to do that. That wouldn't be no joke. But what's the good if I get stuck with the things here. I've gotta get 'em in to Berlin. It's been hard enough work on the river all day, an' if it goes on freezin' this way, there'll be no gettin' along to-morrow. Then I c'n sit in the ice with my boat, an' then I've got these things for fun. MRS. WOLFF