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

[Significantly.] Who knows but something may be goin' to happen? Eh, Moritz?

Come, come, lads. Don't you be a-gettin' of yourselves into mischief.

Blood's flowed already. Would you like to see it?

[He pulls up his sleeve and shows bleeding tattoo-marks on the upper part of his arm. Many of the other young weavers do the same.

We've been at barber Schmidt's gettin' ourselves vaccinated.

Now the thing's explained. Little wonder there's such an uproar in the place, with a band of young rapscallions like you paradin' round.