New-York tribune., 1918-03-17

there are all the other pictures Of churches
and castles and streets, and great ships sail
ing the sea-
GREGERS-But tell me, where did all
those wonderful things come from?
HEDVIG-Oh, an old sea captain once
ilved here, and he brought them home with
nim. They used to call him "The Flying
Dutchman" That curious, because he
wasn't a Dutchman at ALL
GREGERS-Was he not?
HEDVIG-No. But at last he was drowned
at sea, and SO he left all those things be-
hind him.
GREGERS-Tell me now-when YOU are
sitting in there looking at the pictures
don't you wish you could travel and see the
real world for yourself?
HEDVIG-Oh, no! l mean always to stay
at home and help father and mother
GREGERS-To retouch photorraphs?
HEDVIG-No, not only that should love
above everything to learn to engrave pictures
like those in the English books
GREGERS-H'm. What does father saw to
that?
HEDV1G-I don't think father likes It:
father is strange about such things. Onlv
think he talks of my learning basket making
and straw plaitng! But | don't think tbo :
would be much good.
GREGERS-Oh, mol don't think so either.
HEDVIG-But father was right in saving
that if had learnt basket making I could
nave made the new basket for the wild duck.
GREGERS-So you could; and it was you
that ought to have done it, wasn't it?
HEDVtC-Yes. for it's my wild duck.
GREGERS-Of course it is
HEDVlG-Yes, it belongs to me- But I
lend it to father and grandfather as often
as they please.
GREGERs-Indeed What do thew do
with it?
HEDV1G-Oh, they look after it and build
places for it, and so on.
GREGERS-I see, for no doubt the wild
duck is by far the most distinguished in
hebtant of the garrett
HEDVlG-Yes, indeed she is; for she is a
real wild fowl, you know, And then she is
SO much to be pitied; she has no one to care
for, poor thing.
GREGERS-She has no family as the rab
bits have
HEDVIG-No. The hens, too, many of
them, were chickens together; but she has
been taken right away from all her friends.
And then there is much that is strange
ABOUT the wild duck. Nobody knows her and
nobody knows where she came from either
GREGERs-And she has been down in the
depths of the sea-
HEDVlG- With quick glance at him, re-
presses a smile and asks Why do you saw
"the depths of the sea-?
GREGERS-What else should saw?
HEDVlG-You could say "the bottom Of
the sea."'
GREGERS-Oh, mayn't l just as we'll sav
! the depths of the sea?
HEDVIG-Yes; but it sounds ,o stran.o
to me when other people speak Of the denths
Of the sea. ''''
GREGERs-Why so? Tell me whv.
HEDVlG-No, l won't; it's so STUPID.
GREGERS-Oh, no. l am sure it's not M
tell me why you smiled
HEDVlG-Well, this is the reason. Whom.
ever l come to realize suddenly-in a flash
what is in there, it always seems to me- that
the whole room and everything in It shouId
be called "the depths of the sea" Rnt that
Is so stupid. "'
GREGERs-You mustn't say that
HEDVIG-Oh, yes, for you know T. i.
only garret. ~ 10
GREGERS-l Looks hxedly at her1 Ava
you sure Of that? 1N''
HEDvlG (astonished)- it's n carret
GREGERs-Are you quite certain ~ ~
lHedvig is silent, and looks at him ono,-
mouthed. GINA comes in from the kitnhon
with the table things.
'orssan hare uss. the od-rash,ousd s,prc.,o, eva,
sons buhd' ~hi' Hedvis would him us, thu no,.
! commonplace "havess bund" or ''havbundsn.