Well, I can't help bein' angry! He leaves everythin' in a mess. The 'bus is to leave on time! An' the one-horse carriage sticks in the mud out there an' Hauffe can't budge it! The old fellow is as stiff as a goat! WERMELSKIRCH Yes, things are beginning to look busy. The _chef_ upstairs starts in to-day. It's beginning to look up in the tap-room too. HANNE [_With a short derisive laugh._] You don't look, though, as if you had much to do! WERMELSKIRCH [_Taking no offence._] Oh, that comes later, at eleven o'clock. But then I'm like a locomotive engine! HANNE I believe you. There'll be a lot o' smoke. You won't let your pipe get cold whatever happens. WERMELSKIRCH [_Smiling a little._] You're pleased to be pointed in your remarks--pointed as a needle.--We've got to-day, for our table music, wait now, let me think--: First of all, a bass violin; secondly, two cellos; thirdly, two first violins and two second violins. Three first, two second, three second, two first: I'm getting mixed up now. At all events we have ten men from the public orchestra. What are you laughing at? Do you think I'm fooling you? You'll see for yourself. The bass violin alone will eat enough for ten. There'll be work enough to do! HANNE [_Laughing heartily._] Of course: the cook'll have a lot to do! WERMELSKIRCH [_Simply._] My wife, my daughter, the whole of my family--we have to work honestly and hard.--And when the summer is over we've worked ourselves to the bone--for nothing! HANNE I don't see what you has to complain of. You've got the best business in the house. Your taproom don't get empty, if it's summer or winter. If I was Siebenhaar upstairs, you'd have to whistle a different tune for me. You wouldn't be gettin' off with no three hundred crowns o' rent. There wouldn't be no use comin' around me with less'n a thousand. An' then you'd be doin' well enough for yourself! WERMELSKIRCH [_Has arisen and walks about whistling._] Would you like anything else? You frighten me so that my pipe goes out! _GEORGE, a young, alert, neat waiter comes very rapidly down the stairs behind the glass door, carrying a tray with breakfast service. While still behind the door he stops short, opens the door, however, and gazes up and down the passage way._ GEORGE Confound it all! What's this place here? HANNE [_Laughing over her tub._] You've lost your way! You has to go back! GEORGE It's enough, God knows, to make a feller dizzy, No horse couldn't find his way about this place. HANNE You've just taken service here, eh? GEORGE Well o' course! I came yesterday. But tell me, ladies an' gentlemen! Nothin' like this has ever happened to me before. I've been in a good many houses but here you has to take along a kind o' mountain guide to find your way. WERMELSKIRCH [_Exaggerating the waiter's Saxonian accent._] Tell me, are you from Dresden, maybe? GEORGE Meissen is my native city. WERMELSKIRCH