GOODMAN. Here is your horse.
[_The Peasant goes off riding the horse. A_ SECOND PEASANT, _driving a
sheep, enters from a field near by._]
GOODMAN (_sees him and calls_). Halloo, there--you with the sheep!
SECOND PEASANT (_stopping_). Yes, Goodman.
GOODMAN. I should like to have that sheep.
SECOND PEASANT. She is a good, fat sheep.
GOODMAN. There is plenty of grass for her by our fence at home, and in the
winter we could keep her in the room with us.
SECOND PEASANT. Do you wish to buy her?
GOODMAN. Will you take my cow in exchange?
SECOND PEASANT. I am willing. Here is your sheep.
GOODMAN. Here is your cow.
[_The second Peasant goes off driving the cow. Enter, from a farmyard near
by, a_ THIRD PEASANT _carrying a goose._]
GOODMAN. What a heavy creature you have there!
THIRD PEASANT (_stopping_). She has plenty of feathers and plenty of fat.
GOODMAN. She would look well paddling in the water at our place.
THIRD PEASANT (_stopping_). She would look well in any place!
GOODMAN. She would be very useful to my wife. She could make all sorts of
profit out of her.
THIRD PEASANT. Indeed she could, Goodman!
GOODMAN. How often she has said,--"If now we only had a goose!"
THIRD PEASANT.
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