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Another.


[With a reindeer skull.]


Here is the wonderful reindeer that bore,
At Gendin, Peer Gynt over edge and scree.

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 Rondë; 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 around him