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- It is true-each blessed word!
ASE [confronting him].
- Don't you blush before your mother?
- First you skulk among the mountains
- monthlong in the busiest season,
- stalking reindeer in the snows;
- home you come then, torn and tattered,
- gun amissing, likewise game;-
- and at last, with open eyes,
- think to get me to believe
- all the wildest hunters'-lies!-
- Well, where did you find the buck, then?
PEER
- West near Gendin.
ASE [laughing scornfully].
- Ah! Indeed!
PEER
- Keen the blast towards me swept;
- hidden by an alder-clump,
- he was scraping in the snow-crust
- after lichen-
ASE [as before].
- Doubtless, yes!
PEER
- Breathlessly I stood and listened,
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