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Hadda Pada by Guðmundur Kamban
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think you can lower your shoulder! I'm falling, I'm falling, hold
on to my leg! [Ingolf walks on. They hear footsteps.]

KRISTRUN [about to spring down]. Somebody's coming! Oh, it's only
the children. [Doddi and Skuli appear in the doorway.]

DODDI. Isn't father here? [The boys begin to laugh.]

KRISTRUN [clicks with her tongue]. There!--Now my horse must run!-
-Now run, my colt! [Strokes his hair.] If he is spirited, I'll
call him Goldmane!--Ge-yap! Ge-yap! ... He doesn't want to be
called Goldmane? Skuli, hand me my whip, in the corner there,
right by the sideboard. [Points into the dining-room.]

LITTLE SKULI. To beat Ingolf! No indeed!

KRISTRUN. Doddi dear, you do it! [Doddi runs for the whip, and
gives it to her. She swings the whip around, so that it whizzes in
the air. As Ingolf passes the piano, she runs the knob of the whip
along the key-board.]

LITTLE SKULI. Let's go, Doddi. [They go out.]

KRISTRUN. Are you tired?

INGOLF. I seem to feel lighter, in holding you on my shoulder.

KRISTRUN. Hf--! Lighter?

INGOLF. Yes, certainly!
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