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a reindeer-skull].
- Here is the wonderful reindeer that bore,
- at Gendin, Peer Gynt over edge and scaur.
A THIRD [with a hammer, calls out to the MAN IN MOURNING].
- Hei, Aslak, this sledge-hammer, say, do you know it?
- Was it this that you used when the devil clove the wall?
A FOURTH [empty-handed].
- Mads Moen, here's the invisible cloak
- Peer Gynt and Ingrid flew off through the air with.
PEER
- Brandy here, boys! I feel I'm grown old;-
- I must put up to auction my rubbish and lumber!
A LAD
- What have you to sell, then?
PEER
- A palace I have-
- it lies in the Ronde; it's solidly built.
THE LAD
- A button is bid!
PEER
- You must run to a dram.
- 'Twere a sin and a shame to bid anything less.
ANOTHER
- He's a jolly old boy this!
- [The bystanders crowd round him.]
PEER [shouts].