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 THE LEAGUE OF YOUTH.

ACT FIRST.

''The Seventeenth of May.[1] A popular fête in the Chamberlain's grounds. Music and dancing in the background. Coloured lights among the trees. In the middle, somewhat towards the back, a rostrum. To the right, the entrance to a large refreshment-tent; before it, a table with benches. In the foreground, on the left, another table, decorated with flowers and surrounded with lounging-chairs. A Crowd of People. Lundestad, with a committee-badge at his button-hole, stands on the rostrum. Ringdal, also with a committee-badge, at the table on the left.''

Lundestad.

Therefore, friends and fellow citizens, I drink to our freedom! As we have inherited it from our fathers, so will we preserve it for ourselves and for our children! Three cheers for the day! Three cheers for the Seventeenth of May!

The Crowd.

Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah!

1 The Norwegian "Independence Day."