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ioo Gerhart Hauptmann
to hinder a weaver waitin for an hour, or for a
day? What else is he there for?
"
Indeed what else, except to be always waiting
in humility, to be exploited and degraded, always
at the mercy of the few pence thrown to them
after an endless wait.
Necessity knows no law. Neither does it know
pride. The weavers, driven by the whip of
hunger, bend their backs, beg and cringe before
their
"
superior."
Weaver s wife. No one can t call me idle, but I am
not fit now for what I once was. I ve twice had a mis
carriage. As to John, he s but a poor creature. He s
been to the shepherd at Zerlau, but he couldn t do him
no good, and . . .
you can t do more than you ve strength
for. . . . We works as hard as ever we can. This many
a week I ve been at it till far into the night. An we ll
keep our heads above water right enough if I can just
get a bit o strength into me. But you must have pity
on us, Mr. Pfeifer, sir. You ll please be so very kind as
to let me have a few pence on the next job, sir? Only
a few pence, to buy bread with. We can t get no more
credit. We ve a lot o little ones.
"
Suffer little children to come unto me."
Christ loves the children of the poor. The more
the better. Why, then, care if they starve?
Why care if they faint away with hunger, like
the little boy in Drelssiger s office ? For
"
little
Philip is one of nine and the tenth s coming, and
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