The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann, Volume I - Gerhart Hauptmann

[Paying no attention.] Fiedler, one and twopence.

Only a few pence, to buy bread with. We can't get no more credit. We've a lot o' little ones.

[Half aside to the APPRENTICE, in a serio-comic-tone.] "Every year brings a child to the linen-weaver's wife, heigh-ho, heigh-ho, heigh."

[Takes up the rhyme, half singing.] "And the little brat it's blind the first weeks of its life, heigh-ho, heigh-ho, heigh."

[Not touching the money which the cashier has counted out to him.] We've always got one and fourpence for the web.