Kolja Page #2

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still repay me 20,000.

It's better than renovating headstones.

Graves, graves.

Screw this job.

I see you've got lots of pets.

A gravedigger has to have

living things around him.

Her name is Nadezhda.

It's just business.

- Deal?

- I can't, Mr. Broz.

It's not for me.

[ Intermittent Squeaking ]

- [ Squeaking ]

- Franta, stop that!

[ Squeaking ]

Come to see your mother, have you?

- Hello!

- Hello!

[ Piano ]

Franta!

Come again on Tuesday and practice!

Today it was pretty miserable.

- [ Clock Chimes ]

- I had a feeling you'd come. Guess what I've made for lunch.

Potato dumplings.

I was in the pharmacy. I

said, I'll make him dumplings.

- That's great, Mom.

- Vitulka wrote.

It's in the bureau.

Read it aloud if you're reading it.

Maybe later.

Sometimes I think you

don't like your brother.

What did he do to you?

What he did was leave.

You can't hold anything against

him. He went there with nothing...

and now he has a good business.

Meanwhile, I've got crap.

But you'll have money again,

Franta. You're a virtuoso player.

You'll get back on your feet

again. Eat up. There's more.

Mr. Holocek says that

we need new gutters.

- New gutters?

- Yes, he said they've rusted through.

He said that 2,000 would cover...

materials and labor.

How am I going to get the money?

This house has cleaned me out.

I had to sell my car. I'm in debt.

- Where am I going to get the money?

- Don't talk that way.

You know the house is yours...

now you've bought your brother's share.

If you hadn't, we'd have lost it

to the state when Vitulka emigrated.

Would you have wanted me

to live with strangers?

[ Scraping ]

Hey, Franta! Still fiddling for corpses?

And you? Still squeaking for gallbladder patients?

- Of course.

I've got to go. I'll be late for

the bus. Good-bye, Mrs. Loukova.

What's all this about corpses?

That's what we call

a concert audience...

when it's dead; when they don't respond.

It was blocked here.

Otherwise, the gutters

are in fairly good shape.

[ Softly ] Except for the odd spot.

Well, I'll be damned.

How did this get here?

It's not very valuable, Franta.

It's just a piece of costume jewelry.

- Where did you get this?

- I found it.

Mm-hmm,

mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

And what do you think it's worth?

I really have no idea.

Well, look, I could give you five,

maybe ten crowns for it.

Thank you.

A couple's on your street

and they get into a fight.

She says, ''You and your two-bit

trinket can both go to hell!''

Enraged, she throws it in the air.

That's it.

- Mr. Broz, I think I agree.

- Of course.

There's no other explanation.

I mean, I agree to this

bogus marriage, I think.

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