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PEER
- I can call up the devil!
A MAN
- My grandam could do that before I was born!
PEER
- Liar! What I can do, that no one else can.
- I one day conjured him into a nut.
- It was worm-bored, you see!
SEVERAL [laughing].
- Ay, that's easily guessed!
PEER
- He cursed, and he wept, and he wanted to bribe me
- with all sorts of things-
ONE OF THE CROWD
- But he had to go in?
PEER
- Of course. I stopped up the hole with a peg.
- Hei! If you'd heard him rumbling and grumbling!
A GIRL
- Only think!
PEER
- It was just like a humble-bee buzzing.
THE GIRL
- Have you got him still in the nut?
PEER
- Why, no;
- by this time that devil has flown on his way.
- The grudge the smith bears me is all his doing.
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