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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Cause of it All, by Leo Tolstoy
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+Title: The Cause of it All
+
+Author: Leo Tolstoy
+
+Translator: Louise Maude
+            Aylmer Maude
+
+Release Date: September 20, 2008 [EBook #26665]
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+Language: English
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+                           THE CAUSE OF IT ALL
+
+                           A PLAY IN TWO ACTS
+
+
+
+
+CHARACTERS
+
+
+AKULÍNA. An old woman of seventy, brisk, dignified, old-fashioned.
+
+MICHAEL. Her son, thirty-five years old, passionate, self-satisfied,
+vain and strong.
+
+MARTHA. Her daughter-in-law, a grumbler, speaks much and rapidly.
+
+PARÁSHKA. Ten years old, daughter of Martha and Michael.
+
+TARÁS. The village elder's assistant, speaks slowly and gives himself
+airs.
+
+A TRAMP. Forty years old, restless, thin, speaks impressively; when
+drunk is particularly free and easy.
+
+IGNÁT. Forty years old, a buffoon, merry and stupid.
+
+
+
+
+                           THE CAUSE OF IT ALL
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+    Autumn. A peasant's hut, with a small room partitioned off. Akulína
+    sits spinning; Martha the housewife is kneading bread; little
+    Paráshka is rocking a cradle.
+
+
+MARTHA. Oh dear, my heart feels heavy! I know it means trouble; there's
+nothing to keep him there. It will again be like the other day, when he
+went to town to sell the firewood and drank nearly half of it. And he
+blames me for everything.
+
+AKULÍNA. Why look for trouble? It is still early, and the town is a long
+way off. For the present ...
+
+MARTHA. What do you mean by early? Akímych is back already. He started
+after Michael but Michael's not back yet! It's worry worry all day long;
+that's all the pleasure one gets.
+
+AKULÍNA. Akímych took his load straight to a customer; but our man took
+his to sell at the market.
+
+MARTHA. If he were alone I shouldn't worry, but Ignát is with him; and
+when he's with that lousy hound (God forgive me!), he's sure to get
+drunk. Early and late one toils and moils. Everything is on our
+shoulders! If one only got anything by it! But no! hustling about all
+day long is all the pleasure one gets.
+
+    Door opens and Tarás enters with a ragged Tramp.
+
+TARÁS. Good day to you! I've brought a man who wants a night's
+lodging.[1]
+
+  [1] It is customary for the village authorities to quarter tramps on
+  each peasant household in a village in turn, or in such order as
+  appears convenient.
+
+TRAMP [bows] My respects to you.
+
+MARTHA. Why do you bring them to us so often? We put up a tramp last
+Wednesday night; you always bring them to us. You should make Stepanída
+put them up; there are no children there. It's more than I can do to
+look after my own family, and you always bring these people to us.
+
+TARÁS. Everyone in turn has to put them up.
+
+MARTHA. It's all very well to say "everyone in turn," but I have
+children, and besides, the master is not at home to-day.
+
+TARÁS. Never mind, let the fellow sleep here to-night; he'll not wear
+out the place he lies on.
+
+AKULÍNA [to Tramp] Come in and sit down, and be our guest.
+
+TRAMP. I tender my gratitude. I should like a bite of something, if
+possible.
+
+MARTHA. You haven't had time to look round, and want to eat already.
+Didn't you beg anything in the village?
+
+TRAMP [sighs] I'm not in the habit of begging because of my position,
+and having no producks of my own ...
+
+    Akulína rises, goes to the table, takes a loaf of bread, cuts a
+    slice, and gives it to the Tramp.
+
+TRAMP [taking the bread] Merci.[2] [Sits down on the bench and eats
+greedily].
+
+  [2] The tramp, who has had some acquaintance with educated
+  Revolutionaries, tries to introduce foreign words, or words not
+  generally used by workmen, into his talk. In this instance he used the
+  French word _merci_ instead of the plain "thank you."
+
+TARÁS. And where is Michael?
+
+MARTHA. Why, he took hay to the town. It's time he was back, but he's
+not here. Something must have happened.
+
+TARÁS. Why, what should happen?
+
+MARTHA. What indeed? Not anything good; it's only bad one has to expect.
+As soon as he's out of the house he forgets all about us! I expect he'll
+come back tipsy!
+
+AKULÍNA [sitting down to spin, points at Martha and says to Tarás] It's
+not in her to be quiet. As I always say, we women must find something to
+grumble about.
+
+MARTHA. If he were alone I should not be afraid, but he went with Ignát.
+
+TARÁS [smiling] Ah well, Ignát Ivánovich certainly is fond of a drop of
+vódka.
+
+AKULÍNA. Doesn't he know what Ignát is like! Ignát is one man, and our
+Michael's another.
+
+MARTHA. It's all very well for you to talk, mother; but I'm sick of his
+drinking. While he is sober it would be a sin to complain of him, but
+when he's drunk, you know what he is like. One can't say a word;
+everything is wrong.
+
+TARÁS. Yes, but look at you women too; a man has a drink. Well, he
+swaggers about a bit, and sleeps it off, and everything goes on all
+right; but then the likes of you keep on nagging at him.
+
+MARTHA. When he's drunk there's no pleasing him, do what you will.
+
+TARÁS. But you should understand that we can't help having a drop now
+and then. Your woman's business is at home, but the likes of us must
+have a drop when we're on business, or for company's sake. Well, so one
+drinks, and where is the harm?
+
+MARTHA. You may talk, but it's hard on us women. Oh, how hard it is! If
+one harnessed you men to our work just for a week, you would sing a
+different tune. Kneading, cooking, baking, spinning, weaving, and the
+cattle to look after, and all the rest of it, and the brats to keep
+washed and clothed and fed; it's all on our shoulders, and if anything
+is the least bit not to his fancy, there you are, especially when he's
+drunk. Oh dear, what a life ours is!
+
+TRAMP [chewing] That's quite correct. It's the cause of it all; I mean
+all the catastrophes of life proceed from alcoholic liquors.
+
+TARÁS. It seems to have bowled you over too!
+
+TRAMP. No, not exactly that, though I have suffered from that too. The
+career of my life might have been different but for the drink.
+
+TARÁS. Now, to my thinking, if you drink reasonably, there's no manner
+of harm in it.
+
+TRAMP. But I say that it is so strong that it may completely ruin a man.
+
+MARTHA. That's what I say: you worry and do your best, and the only
+comfort you get is to be scolded and beaten like a dog.
+
+TRAMP. And that's not all. There are some people, persons I mean, that
+are quite deprived of their reason through it and commit entirely
+inappropriate actions. While he does not drink, give him anything you
+like and he won't take what is not his; but when drunk, he grabs
+whatever comes handy. Many a time one gets beaten and put in prison. As
+long as I don't drink, all goes honestly and honourably, but as soon as
+I drink, I mean as soon as that same person drinks, he at once begins
+grabbing whatever comes his way.
+
+AKULÍNA. And I think it's all in oneself.
+
+TRAMP. Of course it's in oneself as long as one is well, but this is a
+kind of disease.
+
+TARÁS. A nice kind of disease. A good hiding would soon cure that
+disease. Well, goodbye for the present. [Exit].
+
+MARTHA [wipes her hands and turns to go].
+
+AKULÍNA [sees that the Tramp has finished his bread] Martha, I say,
+Martha! Cut him another piece.
+
+MARTHA. Bother him, I must get the samovár to boil. [Exit].
+
+    Akulína rises, goes to the table, cuts a chunk of bread and gives it
+    to the Tramp.
+
+TRAMP. _Merci_, I have acquired a great appetite.
+
+AKULÍNA. Are you a workman?
+
+TRAMP. Who? I? I was a mechanic.
+
+AKULÍNA. And what wages did you get?
+
+TRAMP. I used to get fifty, and even seventy roubles, a month.
+
+AKULÍNA. That's a good lot! Then how have you come down so low?
+
+TRAMP. Come down! I'm not the only one. I've come down because the times
+are such that it is impossible for an honest man to live.
+
+MARTHA [brings in the samovár] Oh Lord! it's certain sure he'll come
+home drunk. I feel it in my heart.
+
+AKULÍNA. I'm afraid he must really have gone on the spree.
+
+MARTHA. There it is. One struggles and struggles and kneads and bakes
+and cooks and spins and weaves and tends the cattle; everything on one's
+own shoulders. [The baby in the cradle cries] Paráshka, rock the boy. Oh
+dear, what a life it is for us women. And when he is drunk, nothing is
+right!... If one only says a word he doesn't like ...
+
+AKULÍNA [making the tea] And this is the last of the tea. Did you tell
+him to get some?
+
+MARTHA. Of course. He said he would, but he'll have forgotten all about
+his home!... [She puts the samovár on the table].
+
+    The Tramp moves away.
+
+AKULÍNA. Why do you leave the table? We are going to drink tea.
+
+TRAMP. I tender my gratitude for the hearty hospitality. [Throws away
+the cheap cigar[3] he was smoking and comes to the table].
+
+  [3] The "cigar" will have probably consisted of some bad tobacco
+  rolled up in a bit of newspaper.
+
+MARTHA. And what sort do you belong to? Peasants, or some other?
+
+TRAMP. Well, I'm not of the peasant class, nor of the aristocracy. I'm
+of the double-edged class.
+
+MARTHA. What's that? [hands him a cup of tea].
+
+TRAMP. _Merci._ Why this; that my father was a Polish Count, and besides
+him I had many others; and I also had two mothers. In general my
+biography presents many difficulties.
+
+MARTHA. Have another cup? Well, did you get any learning?
+
+TRAMP. My learning has also been very uncircumstantial. Not my mother,
+but my godmother apprenticed me to a blacksmith. That blacksmith was my
+first perdagogue; and his perdagogy consisted in this--that he did not
+beat his anvil as often as he beat my unfortunate head. Nevertheless,
+however much he hit me, he could not deprive me of talent. Then I went
+to a locksmith's, and there I was appreciated, and became foreman. I
+made acquaintance with educated people, and belonged to a political
+faction. I was able to master intellectual literature; and my life might
+have been elevated for I possessed immense talent.
+
+AKULÍNA. Of course.
+
+TRAMP. But here came an upset. The despotic yoke oppressing the life of
+the people! I got into prison; I mean, I suffered the incarceration of
+freedom.
+
+MARTHA. What for?
+
+TRAMP. For our rights.
+
+MARTHA. What rights?
+
+TRAMP. What rights? Why the rights that the bourgeois should not feast
+continually, and that the labouring proletariat might reap the rewards
+of labour.
+
+AKULÍNA. And get back the land, I suppose?
+
+TRAMP. Well naturally. The Agromoric question too.
+
+AKULÍNA. May God and the Holy Queen of Heaven grant it. We are that
+pressed for land. Well, and how are things now?
+
+TRAMP. Now? I am off to Moscow. I shall go to an exploiter of labour.
+Can't be helped; I shall humble myself and say--give me what work you
+will, only take me.
+
+AKULÍNA. Well, have some more tea.
+
+TRAMP. Thank you; _merci_ I mean.
+
+    Noise and talk in the passage outside.
+
+AKULÍNA. Here's Michael, just in time for tea.
+
+MARTHA [rises] Oh, my goodness, Ignát is with him! That means he's
+drunk.
+
+    Michael and Ignát stagger in.
+
+IGNÁT. How are you all? [Crosses himself before the icon] Here we are,
+damn you, just in time for tea. We went to church, service was done; we
+went to dine, all eaten and gone; to the pub, we went in, just time to
+begin. Ha, ha, ha! You give us some tea and we'll give you some vódka.
+That's fair. [Laughs].
+
+MICHAEL. Where has this swell come from? [Points to Tramp. Takes a
+bottle from the bosom of his coat and puts it on the table] Bring some
+cups.
+
+AKULÍNA. Well, did you get on all right?
+
+IGNÁT. Nothing could be better, damn you; drank, and had a spree, and
+have brought some home.
+
+MICHAEL [fills the cups with vódka, hands one to his mother and then one
+to the Tramp] Drink, you too!
+
+TRAMP [taking cup] I offer most heartfelt thanks. Your health. [Empties
+the cup].
+
+IGNÁT. Fine fellow, how he swills, damn him! I should think hunger makes
+it run through all his veins. [Pours out some more].
+
+TRAMP [drinks] I wish you success in all your undertakings.
+
+AKULÍNA. Well, did you get a good price for the hay?
+
+IGNÁT. Good or bad, we've drunk it all, damn you! Am I right, Michael?
+
+MICHAEL. Why, of course. It's not made to be looked at! One must have
+some fun once in a hundred years.
+
+MARTHA. What are you swaggering for? There's not much good in that.
+We've nothing to eat at home, and see what you're doing.
+
+MICHAEL [threateningly] Martha!
+
+MARTHA. Well, what of Martha? I know I'm Martha. Oh, it makes me sick to
+look at you.
+
+MICHAEL. Martha, look!
+
+MARTHA. There's nothing to see. I don't want to look.
+
+MICHAEL. Pour out the vódka and serve it round to our visitors.
+
+MARTHA. Faugh, you bleary-eyed hound. I don't want to speak to you.
+
+MICHAEL. You don't? Ah, you baggage, what did you say?
+
+MARTHA [rocks cradle. Paráshka is frightened and comes to her] What I
+said? I said I do not want to talk to you, that's all.
+
+MICHAEL. Have you forgotten? [Jumps up from the table, strikes her on
+the head and knocks off her kerchief] One!
+
+MARTHA. Oh! Oh! Oh! [Runs crying to the door].
+
+MICHAEL. You'll not get away, you jade! [Rushes at her].
+
+TRAMP [jumps up from the table and seizes his arm] You have no kind of
+complete right.
+
+MICHAEL [stops and looks at Tramp with surprise] Is it long since you
+had a thrashing?
+
+TRAMP. You have no complete right to subject the female sex to insults.
+
+MICHAEL. Oh, you son of a bitch! Do you see this? [Shows his fist].
+
+TRAMP. I will not allow exploitations to be performed on the female sex.
+
+MICHAEL. I'll give you such an extolpation that you'll not know which
+end you stand on....
+
+TRAMP. Go on, strike away! Why don't you? [Holds out his face].
+
+MICHAEL [shrugs his shoulders and spreads out his arms] Suppose I really
+go for you?
+
+TRAMP. I tell you, strike!
+
+MICHAEL. Well, you are a rum chap, now I come to look at you. [Drops his
+arms and shakes his head].
+
+IGNÁT [to Tramp] One sees at once that you're pretty sweet on the women,
+damn you!
+
+TRAMP. I stand up for their rights.
+
+MICHAEL [to Martha as, breathing heavily, he steps to the table] Well
+Martha, you must set a big candle before the saints for his sake. But
+for him, I'd have beaten you to a jelly.
+
+MARTHA. What else can one expect of you. One worries all one's life,
+baking and cooking; and as soon as ...
+
+MICHAEL. Now, have done, have done! [Offers vódka to the Tramp] Drink.
+[To his wife] And what are you slobbering for? Mayn't a fellow have his
+joke? There you are [gives her money], put it away. Here are two
+three-rouble notes and two twenty-copeck pieces.
+
+MARTHA. And the tea and sugar I wanted?
+
+MICHAEL [takes parcel from his pocket and hands it to his wife. Martha
+takes the money and the parcel and goes into the little room, silently
+arranging the kerchief on her head] What an unreasonable lot these women
+are. [He again offers vódka to the Tramp] There, drink.
+
+TRAMP [declining it] Drink it yourself.
+
+MICHAEL. Come now, don't fuss.
+
+TRAMP [drinking] Success to you.
+
+IGNÁT [to Tramp] You must have seen many a strange sight, I suppose.
+Oh, what a fine coat you've got! Latest fashion. Where did you get it
+from? [pointing to Tramp's tattered jacket]. Don't you mend it, it's
+fine as it is! It's getting on in years, I fancy. Well, it can't be
+helped. If I had one like it, the women would be sweet on me too! [To
+Martha] Ain't that true?
+
+AKULÍNA. You should not, Ignát Iványch. Before seeing anything of him,
+why go and hold up a man to laughter?
+
+TRAMP. It comes of his uneducatedness.
+
+IGNÁT. I'm doing it friendly-like. Drink [offers vódka].
+
+AKULÍNA. He says himself--it's the cause of all evil--and he's been in
+prison because of it.
+
+MICHAEL. What were you in prison for?
+
+TRAMP [very drunk] I've suffered for expropriation.
+
+MICHAEL. What's that?
+
+TRAMP. Why, this way. Came up to a fat paunch: "Give up your money, else
+here's a levolver."[4] He tries this way and that, but forks out 2,300
+roubles.
+
+  [4] As usual he mispronounces his word and calls a "revolver" "a
+  levolver."
+
+AKULÍNA. Oh Lord!
+
+TRAMP. We meant to dispose of it the proper way. Zembrikóf was our
+leader. Then those ravens swooped down on us. At once under arrest, and
+into prison.
+
+IGNÁT. And took the money away?
+
+TRAMP. Of course. Only they could not convict me. At the trial the
+procurator said these words to me: "You've stolen money" says he; and I
+answer him straight: "Thieves steal, but we have performed an
+expropriation for our Party." And he didn't know what to say. He tried
+this way and that, but couldn't answer me. "Lead him," says he, "to
+prison," that is--to the incarceration of free life.
+
+IGNÁT. Clever dog! A regular brick! [Offering vódka] Drink, damn you.
+
+AKULÍNA. Fie, how nastily you speak!
+
+IGNÁT. I, Grannie? I don't mean it for abuse; it's a manner of speech of
+mine. Damn you, damn you!... Your good health, Grannie.
+
+MARTHA [returns and stands at the table pouring out tea].
+
+MICHAEL. That's right. Fancy taking offence! I say, it's thanks to him.
+[To Tramp] What do you think? [Embraces Martha] I cherish my old woman.
+See, how I cherish her. In a word, my old woman is first-rate. I would
+not change her for anybody.
+
+IGNÁT. There, that's good. Grannie, drink! I stand treat.
+
+TRAMP. What it means--the power of enershy! One was in a state of
+melancholy, and now there's nothing but pleasantness and friendly
+disposition. Grannie, I feel much love for you and for everybody.
+Brothers dear [sings revolutionary song].
+
+MICHAEL. It has got right hold of him in his hunger.
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+    Same hut. Morning
+
+    Martha and Akulína. Michael is asleep
+
+
+MARTHA [takes hatchet] I must go and chop some firewood.
+
+AKULÍNA [with a pail] He'd have beaten you black and blue yesterday, had
+it not been for that fellow. I don't see him. Has he gone? I suppose he
+has. [Exit one after the other].
+
+MICHAEL [climbs down from the top of the oven] Just look, the sun's
+already quite high. [Puts on his boots] She must have gone to fetch
+water with mother. How my head aches! I won't do it again; the devil
+take it! [Crosses himself before the icon, prays, and then washes his
+hands and face] I'll go and harness.
+
+    Enter Martha with firewood.
+
+MARTHA. And yesterday's beggar? Has he gone?
+
+MICHAEL. Must have gone. Can't see him.
+
+MARTHA. Oh well, let him go. He seemed a clever chap though.
+
+MICHAEL. He took your part!
+
+MARTHA. What of that!
+
+    Michael puts on his coat.
+
+MARTHA. And the tea and sugar? Did you put them away last night, eh?
+
+MICHAEL. I thought you did.
+
+    Enter Akulína with a pail of water.
+
+MARTHA [to Akulína] Mother, have you taken the parcel?
+
+AKULÍNA. No, I know nothing about it. I haven't seen it.
+
+MARTHA. Last night, I put it on the window-sill.
+
+AKULÍNA. Yes, I saw it there.
+
+MARTHA. Where can it be? [They look for it].
+
+AKULÍNA. Dear me, what a shame!
+
+    Enter Neighbour.
+
+NEIGHBOUR. Well Michael Tikhónych, are we to go for the wood?
+
+MICHAEL. Yes, of course. I'm just going to harness; but you see we've
+lost something.
+
+NEIGHBOUR. Dear me! What is it?
+
+MARTHA. Why, you see, my old man brought a parcel from town yesterday,
+with tea and sugar in it, and I put it down here on the window-sill and
+didn't remember to put it away; and now it's gone.
+
+MICHAEL. And we're committing the sin of suspecting a tramp who spent
+the night here.
+
+NEIGHBOUR. What sort of tramp?
+
+MARTHA. Well, he's rather thin and has no beard.
+
+MICHAEL. His coat's all in rags.
+
+NEIGHBOUR. Curly hair and rather hooked nose?
+
+MICHAEL. Yes, yes!
+
+NEIGHBOUR. I've just met him, and wondered why he was stepping out so
+fast.
+
+MICHAEL. It must be him. Where was he?
+
+NEIGHBOUR. I don't think he can have crossed the bridge yet.
+
+MICHAEL [snatches up his cap and goes out quickly, followed by the
+Neighbour] I'll catch the knave. It's him.
+
+MARTHA. Oh, what a shame, what a shame! It's surely him.
+
+AKULÍNA. And suppose it's not. It happened once, some twenty years ago,
+that they accused a man of having stolen a horse. A crowd collected. One
+says: "I myself saw him catching it." Another says he saw him leading
+it. It was a big piebald horse, easily noticed. All the people began
+searching for it, and in the forest they found the lad. "It's you," they
+say. He protests and swears it was not him. They say: "What's the good
+of listening to him; the women said quite certainly it's him." Then he
+said something rude. George Lapúshkin (he's dead now) was a hot-tempered
+man. He dashed at him slap bang, and struck him on the mouth. "It was
+you," said he, and hit out at him. Then all the others fell on him and
+began beating him with sticks and fists till they killed him. And what
+do you think!.... Next day the real thief was found. The lad they killed
+had only gone into the forest to choose a tree to cut down.
+
+MARTHA. Yes, of course, we may be sinning against him. He has come down
+very low, but seemed a good fellow.
+
+AKULÍNA. Yes, he has sunk very low. One can't expect much from the likes
+of him.
+
+MARTHA. They're shouting. I expect they're bringing him back.
+
+    Enter Michael, Neighbour, an old man and a lad, pushing the Tramp
+    before them.
+
+MICHAEL [with the parcel in his hands, excitedly to his wife] It was
+found on him. [To Tramp] You thief! You dog!
+
+AKULÍNA [to Martha] It's him, poor soul. See how he hangs his head.
+
+MARTHA. It seems it was himself he spoke about yesterday that grabs
+anything that's handy when he's had some drink.
+
+TRAMP. I'm not a thief; I'm an expropriator. I am a worker and must
+live. You can't understand it. Do what you like with me.
+
+NEIGHBOUR. Take him to the village Elder or straight to the police!
+
+TRAMP. I tell you, do whatever you like. I am not afraid, and am ready
+to suffer for my convictions. If you were educated you would understand.
+
+MARTHA [to her husband] Suppose we let him go, in God's name. We've got
+the parcel back. Let him go and let's not commit another sin.
+
+MICHAEL [repeating] "Another sin!" Taken to teaching? One wouldn't know
+what to do without you, eh?
+
+MARTHA. Why not let him go?
+
+MICHAEL. "Let him go!" One knows what to do without you, you fool. "Let
+him go!" Go he may, but he must hear a word or two so that he should
+feel. [To Tramp] Well then, listen, you sir, to what I have to say to
+you. Though you are in a very low state, still you have done very
+wrong--very wrong. Another man would have caved your ribs in, and have
+taken you to the police; but I will only say this. You've done wrong, as
+wrong as may be; only you are in a very bad way and I don't want to hurt
+you. [Pauses. Everyone is silent. Then he continues solemnly] Go, and
+God be with you, and do not do it again. [Looks at his wife] And you
+want to teach me!
+
+NEIGHBOUR. You shouldn't, Michael; oh, you should not. You're
+encouraging that sort of thing.
+
+MICHAEL [the parcel still in his hand] Whether I should or not is my
+business. [To his wife] And you tried to teach me! [Stops, looks at the
+parcel, then at his wife, and gives it to the Tramp with decision] Take
+it, you can drink it on the way. [To wife] And you wanted to teach me!
+[To Tramp] Go, you've been told to go. Then go, and no palavering.
+
+TRAMP [takes parcel. Silence] You think I don't understand. [His voice
+trembles] I fully understand. Had you beaten me like a dog, it would
+have felt less hard. Don't I understand what I am? I am a rascal, a
+degenerate, I mean. Forgive me for the Lord's sake. [Sobs, throws the
+parcel on the table, and goes out hurriedly].
+
+MARTHA. A good thing he didn't take the tea, or we should have had none
+to drink.
+
+MICHAEL [to wife] And you wanted to teach me!
+
+NEIGHBOUR. How he cried, poor soul.
+
+AKULÍNA. He too was a man.
+
+[ Transcriber's Note:
+
+  The following is a list of corrections made to the original. The first
+  line is the original line, the second the corrected one.
+
+when he's with that lousey hound (God forgive me!), he's sure to get
+when he's with that lousy hound (God forgive me!), he's sure to get
+
+went to dine, all eaten and gone; to the pub. we went in, just time to
+went to dine, all eaten and gone; to the pub, we went in, just time to
+
+MICHAEL. It has got right hold of him in his hunger
+MICHAEL. It has got right hold of him in his hunger.
+]
+
+
+
+
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