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to provide something to drink, and we the cake
and glasses. We were never allowed to take
any glasses up on the hill, exeept old goblets
with the feet broken off. I thought then it was
terribly stingy of Mother not to let us have
proper glasses.
Ezekiel made the speech in honor of the day.
I can still see his thin white fingers round the
broken glass while lie spouted and speechified
about “ our young freedom crowns this day of
liberty with flowers.” I had lately read the
whole speech in an old children’s paper, and of
course had to confide this faet to Mina; the
others wanted to know what we were laughing
about, and at last all the listeners were
laughing and whispering to each other; but Ezekiel
stuck to it. After the speech four stones were
thrown down. Karsten was beaming. “ Oh,
oh, what a crash! ” he kept saying.
After that Ezekiel made a speech in honor of
Sweden; at the end of the speech he suggested
that we should sing:
“See yonder by the Baltic’s salt waves,”
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