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We'll scatter around on this side of our saeter.
[He and his wife go on ahead.]

SOLVEIG [to ASE].

Say on; tell me more.

ASE [drying her eyes].

Of my son, you mean?

SOLVEIG

Yes;-
Tell everything!

ASE [smiles and tosses her head].

Everything?-Soon you'd be tired!

SOLVEIG

Sooner by far will you tire of the telling
than I of the hearing.

SCENE THIRD

[Low, treeless heights, close under the mountain moorlands; peaks in the distance. The shadows are long; it is late in the day.] [PEER GYNT comes running at full speed, and stops short on the hillside.] PEER

The parish is all at my heels in a pack!
Every