WULKOW
[Feeling the stag.] The trouble is I got four o' them bucks lyin' at home now.
MRS. WOLFF
That ain't goin' to make your boat sink.
WULKOW
An' I don't want her to do that. That wouldn't be no joke. But what's the good if I get stuck with the things here. I've gotta get 'em in to Berlin. It's been hard enough work on the river all day, an' if it goes on freezin' this way, there'll be no gettin' along to-morrow. Then I c'n sit in the ice with my boat, an' then I've got these things for fun.
MRS. WOLFF
[Apparently changing her mind.] Girl, you run down to Schulze. Say how-dee-do an' he's to come up a while, cause mother has somethin' to sell.
WULKOW
Did I say as I wasn't goin' to buy it?