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Looking after them, the Sergeant delivers his own epigrammatic prophecy: "When a war gives you all you earn/ One day it may claim something in return!"

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Courage emerges and stands still, realizing she has lost her child. Bitterly the family departs.

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Simultaneously the Recruiting Officer takes Eilif off for a drink. A horrified Kattrin leaps from the wagon and starts screaming.

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The Recruiting Officer presses the Sergeant to stop them. The Sergeant examines one of Courage's belts, taking her behind the wagon.

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Eilif will die for his excessive bravery, Swiss Cheese for his honesty, and Kattrin for her kindness. Sorrowfully, she readies to leave.

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The Recruiting Officer has continued his pursuit of Eilif. When Eilif admits that he would like to sign up, Courage similarly foretells the fate of her children. Each draw the black cross as well.

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In the first scene, it starts off in Dalarna. It starts off in the spring as well.

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A Sergeant and Recruiting Officer are recruiting soldiers for the campaign.

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The Sergeant and Officer stood there shivering while the Officer complains about the difficulty in getting soldiers from people that can not be trusted.

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Then, they hear a harmonica, and see Mother Courage sitting on a canteen wagon, and she's with her children.

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The American Idol Audition of Mother Courage 

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The American Idol Audition of Mother Courage 

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The infamous Mother Courage shows up with her daughter, Kattrin, and two sons, Eilif, and Swiss Cheese. Then, she sings her song to the Officer and Sergeant.

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TERRIBLE Singing. Cringey and Hilarious Girl Tries To Sing. *TRIES*

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Her song was some sort of "sales pitch" where it markets the wares that will help the soldiers die or be the reason. In one of the lines, she sings, "Let all of you who still survive/ Get out of bed and look alive."

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The Sergeant then demands to see her license, and Mother Courage mocks his request. Then, he laments over the lack of discipline in the army and ask the group's name.

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Mother Courage then reveals her diverse family lineage because each of her children are kids of a different father of a different nationality. The two officers mock her and Eilif threatens to punch them, but Mother Courage checks him and offers them wares.

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The Recruiting Officer reveals his intentions and tries to get Eilif to join the army. Courage demands that he leave her children alone, and then draws her knife.

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The Sergeant protests, saying that since Courage lives off the war, the war should not ask something of her in return. The war has not hurt him so far. Looking into the future, Courage disagrees. To her, the Sergeant is a corpse on furlough.

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To confirm her prophecy, she has the Sergeant choose his fortune. Courage puts two strips of parchment in his helmet, drawing a black cross on one of them. She mixes them, and he draws. To his horror, the Sergeant has chosen his death.