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KARI
- Indeed but they do.
ASE
- When that is done, I must get to bed;
- I feel so broken, and frail, and ill-
- [Joyfully.]
- Two woollen-shirts, Kari;-they've passed them by!
KARI
- So they have indeed.
ASE
- It's a bit of luck.
- One of the two you may put aside;
- or rather, I think we'll e'en take them both;-
- the one he has on is so worn and thin.
KARI
- But oh, Mother Ase, I fear it's a sin!
ASE
- Maybe; but remember, the priest holds out
- pardon for this and our other sinnings.
SCENE THIRD
[In front of a settler's newly-built hut in the forest. A reindeer's horns over the door. The snow is lying deep around. It is dusk.] [PEER GYNT is standing outside the door, fastening a large wooden bar to it.] PEER [laughing betweenwhiles].
- Bars I must fix me; bars that can fasten
