I don't want you to take no presents from that feller.--Come here, Julius! Listen to me! Here I got ninety-nine crowns! That's always the same old way with Wulkow. He just cheated us out o' one, because he promised to give a hundred.--I'm puttin' the money in this bag, y'understand? Now go an' get a hoe and dig a hole in the goatshed--but right under the manger where it's dry. An' then you c'n put the bag into the hole. D'you hear me? An' take a flat stone an' put it across. But don't be so long doin' it. JULIUS I thought you was goin' to pay an instalment to Fischer! MRS. WOLFF Can't you never do what I tell you to? Don't poke round so long, y'understand? JULIUS Don't you go an' rile me or I'll give you somethin' to make you stop. I don't hold with that money stayin' in this here house. MRS. WOLFF Well, what's goin' to be done with it? JULIUS You take it an' you carry it over to Fischer. You said we was goin' to use it to make a payment to him. MRS. WOLFF You're stoopid enough to make a person sick. If it wasn't for me you'd just go to the dogs. JULIUS Go on with your screamin'! That's right. MRS. WOLFF A person can't help screamin', you're such a fool. If you had some sense, I wouldn't have to scream. If we go an' takes that money to Fischer now, you look out an' see what happens! JULIUS That's what I say. Look at the whole dam' business. What's the good of it to me if I gotta go to gaol! MRS. WOLFF Now it's about time you was keepin' still. JULIUS You can't scream no louder, can you? MRS. WOLFF I ain't goin' to get me a new tongue on your account. You raise a row ... just as hard as you can, all on account o' this bit o' business. You just look out for yourself an' not for me. Did you throw the key in the river? JULIUS Has I had a chanst to get down there yet? MRS. WOLFF Then it's about time you was gettin' there! D'you want 'em to find the key on you? [_JULIUS is about to go._] Oh, wait a minute, Julius. Let me have the key! JULIUS What you goin' to do with it? MRS. WOLFF [_Hiding the key about her person._] That ain't no business o' yours; that's mine. [_She pours coffee beans into the hand-mill and begins to grind._] Now you go out to the shed; then you c'n come back an' drink your coffee. JULIUS If I'd ha' known all that before. Aw! [_JULIUS exit. ADELAIDE enters, carrying a large apron full of firewood._ MRS. WOLFF Where d'you go an' get that wood? ADELAIDE Why, from the new blocks o' pine. MRS. WOLFF You wasn't to use that new wood yet. ADELAIDE [_Dropping the wood on the floor in front of the oven._] That don't do no harm, mama, if it's burned up! MRS. WOLFF You think you know a lot! What are you foolin' about? You grow up a bit an' then talk! ADELAIDE I know where it comes from! MRS. WOLFF What do you mean, girl? ADELAIDE I mean the wood. MRS. WOLFF Don't go jabberin' now; we bought that at a auction. ADELAIDE