Peter and the Wolf are sitting inside their cottage in the hills of Germany. The hills of Germany are dark orange and dark brown. Peter and the Wolf talk about what they want to do this weekend. They have no plans. They look outside the window and decide to walk around the lake.

At the lake Peter and the Wolf decide to do some ice skating. Peter is wearing an orange jacket and leather cap with a leather chin strap and the Wolf is wearing fur. The two do some ice skating. The sky is cloudy above the dark orange and dark brown hills of Germany and soon it is snowing. Peter and the Wolf think how they should be getting back to their cottage where they can make tea and do nothing.

Peter and the Wolf notice a figure in the distance. The figure is running against the border of the birch trees. The figure falls in the snow a few times but each time gets up and keeps running back and forth. Peter and the Wolf try not to laugh. Then the figure shouts. Then the figure drops to its knees.

Peter and the Wolf come up to the figure who is a man. The man has brown burlap pants, a green sweater, and a black scarf. The man is coughing up blood. He coughs blood up into his thick beard.

-I'm going to die, the man says.

Peter and the Wolf nod. Peter and the Wolf dislike men with beards.

-I've been murdered, says the man who falls deeper in the snow.

Peter and the Wolf twist their heads and ask the man about to die if they can do anything to help.

-Not really, says the dying man. You can't help a man about to die. Everybody knows that.

-Who killed you? ask Peter and the Wolf.

The man is dead. His body lays face down in the snow. Peter and the Wolf go back to their cottage to get the sled. But first they make a pot of tea which they sip for a while doing nothing but sipping tea and thinking about the murder of the man near the birch trees. .............