[_Apparently changing her mind._] Girl, you run down to Schulze. Say how-dee-do an' he's to come up a while, cause mother has somethin' to sell. WULKOW Did I say as I wasn't goin' to buy it? MRS. WOLFF It's all the same to me who buys it. WULKOW Well, I'm willin' to. MRS. WOLFF Any one that don't want it can let it be. WULKOW I'll buy this feller! What's he worth? MRS. WOLFF [_Touching the venison._] This here piece weighs a good thirty pounds. Every bit of it, I c'n tell you. Well, Adelaide! You was here. We could hardly lift it up. ADELAIDE [_Who had not been present at all._] I pretty near sprained myself liftin' it. WULKOW Thirteen shillin's will pay for it, then. An' I won't be makin' ten pence on that bargain! MRS. WOLFF [_Acts amazed. She busies herself at the oven as though she had forgotten WULKOW'S presence. Then, as though suddenly becoming aware of it again, she says:_] I wish you a very pleasant trip. WULKOW Well. I can't give more than thirteen! MRS. WOLFF That's right. Let it alone. WULKOW I'm just buyin' it for the sake o' your custom. God strike me dead, but it's as true as I'm standin' here. I don't make _that_ much with the whole business. An' even if I was wantin' to say: fourteen, I'd be puttin' up money, I'd be out one shillin'. But I ain't goin' to let that stand between us. Just so you see my good intentions, I'll say fourteen.... I can't give no more. I'm tellin' you facts. MRS. WOLFF That's all right! That's all right! We c'n get rid o' this stag. We won't have to keep it till morning. WULKOW Yes, if only nobody don't see it hangin' here. Money wouldn't do no good then. MRS. WOLFF This stag here, we found it dead. WULKOW Yes, in a trap. I believe you. MRS. WOLFF You needn't try to get around us that way. That ain't goin' to do _no_ good! You want to gobble up everythin' for nothin'! We works till we got no breath. Hours an' hours soakin' in the snow, not to speak o' the risk, there in the pitch dark. That's no joke, I tell you. WULKOW The only trouble is that I got four of 'em already. Or I'd say fifteen shillin's quick enough. MRS. WOLFF No, Wulkow, we can't do business together today. You c'n be easy an' go a door further. We just dragged ourselves across the lake ... a hairbreadth an' we would've been stuck in the ice. We couldn't get forward an' we couldn't get backward. You can't give away somethin' you got so hard. WULKOW