CHILDREN (running across the stage with fragments of wood).
We're free! we're free!
FÜRST.
Oh! what a joyous scene! These children will
Remember it when all their heads are gray.
[Girls bring in the cap upon a pole. The whole stage is filled with people.]
RUODI.
Here is the cap, to which we were to bow!
BAUM.
What shall we do with it? Do you decide!