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THE LAND OF MANY NAMES
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Pieris:
Alas! what will you seek in the Land of Hopes?
The Stripling:
Gold.
The Man with the Spade:
Property, at last, and for the first time in our lives—property.
First Man:
What else but gold?
Pieris:
Oh, may you never reach the Land of Hopes.
First Man:
What, you and not us?
The Stripling:
So that you can dig there and get rich yourselves, liars that you are.
The Man with the Spade:
So that we should have nothing.
First Man:
You want to put us off with fine words.
The Stripling:
You won’t catch us that way, my good fellow.
[He spits. They move off.
First Man:
I tell you, we’d do better to ask no questions, but see that we get there as soon as possible.
