MRS. SCHULZE
[Addressing someone in the room behind her.] Missis, you c'n be reel quiet! The wind's blowin' from the other side.
[She disappears.
RAUCHHAUPT
Did you see that there old witch? She always knows where the wind comes from.—I retired from all that, yessir! I didn't want to be a old bloodhound right along. I don't mix in them things no more. But that woman—she could be a keen one. [A fireman, blowing his horn very excitedly, walks by.] Go it easy, August! Patience! Look out, or your breeches will bust!
THE FIREMAN
[Enraged.] Aw, shut up! Go an' hide yourself in the holes you're always diggin.
[Exit.
A FOURTH and a FIFTH GIRL, aged nine and ten years respectively, join the old man.