Bravo! Bravo!
VOICES FROM THE GALLERY.
Da capo!—
[All are laughing. The music begins again; meanwhile the curtain rises.]
ACT I
Small room in a peasant's cottage
LORENZ, BARTHEL, GOTTLIEB. The tom-cat HINZE, is lying on a bench by the stove.
LORENZ.
I think that after the death of our father, our little fortune can be divided easily. You know the deceased has left only three pieces of property—a horse, an ox, and that cat there. I, as the eldest, will take the horse; Barthel, second after me, gets the ox, and so the cat is naturally left for our youngest brother.
LEUTNER (in the pit).