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 Bernick.

I should like to see the shipowner among us that would have the conscience to do such a thing! There isn't one, not a single one.

[Catches sight of Olaf.] Ah, thank goodness, nothing has happened to him.

[Olaf, with a fishing-line in his hand, comes running up the street and through the garden-gate.]

Olaf.

[Still in the garden.] Uncle Hilmar, I've been down seeing the steamboat.

Bernick.

Have you been on the pier again?

Olaf.

No, I was only out in a boat. But just fancy, Uncle Hilmar, a whole circus company came ashore from the steamer, with horses and wild beasts; and there were a lot of passengers besides.

Mrs. Rummel.

Oh, are we to have a circus?

Rörlund.

We? Really I should hope not.

Mrs. Rummel.

No, of course not we, but

Dina.

I should like to see a circus.

Olaf.

Oh, and me too!