- Where do you come from?
- Should I speak now? I come from Krklino.
- Have you always lived here?
- No, I was born in Lisolaj.
- But you got married in Krklino.
- Ahem.
- Did you always live in the village?
- Yes, all my life. My whole life with an axe. We had 50 sheep. We used to have sheep; now we don’t any more. We have nothing left, only chickens.
- What did you do with the sheep? Did you use the wool?
- Yes, the “Diftici” under which you sleep. We made “Batanii” and cheese. In fact we made everything.
- Soap, too?
- No, not soap; you need pigs for soap. You use the fat you do not eat. But we bought more soap than we made.
- But I can remember ...
- Yes, your grandmother Ivana made soap when we still had pigs, but what should we make soap from today? ...
- How many chickens do you have?
- 20.
- Do they lay eggs?
- Yes, why did your mother not come?
- She was working; now she is sick.
- Why didn’t she come; she could have sat here with..