Kari.

They are there, ’mid that rubbish.

Åse.

[Rummaging about.]

Why, what have we here? I declare it’s an old

Casting-ladle, Kari! With this he would play

Button-moulder, would melt, and then shape, and then stamp them.

One day—there was company—in the boy came,

And begged of his father a lump of tin.

“Not tin,” says Jon, “but King Christian’s coin;