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CHORUS [_Among blossoming branches._]
_Boom! Boom!
From bloom to bloom_!
THE TURKEY-HEN [_Lifting her bill._] A Chorus?
THE GUINEA-HEN [_Breezily._] The Bees!
CHORUS _Make distant flowers Bride and groom!_
THE TURKEY-HEN Wonders on every side!
THE GUINEA-HEN The Bees here, the Tsicadas yonder--[_To a pa.s.sing_ HEN.] How do you do?
How do you do?
BEES [_At the right._]
_Boom!_
CICADAS [_At the left._]
_Our praises!_
BEES _Boom!_
CICADAS _Our praises!_
THE GUINEA-HEN [_To the_ PHEASANT-HEN.] My garden produces the most remarkable of everything!
THE YOUNG GUINEA-c.o.c.k The brightest flowers!
THE GUINEA-HEN The big potatoes!
THE BLACKBIRD And peaches! Perfect peaches!
THE PHEASANT-HEN [_Inconvenienced by the movement and the crowd, to the_ BLACKBIRD.] Let us stand out of the crowd a moment, behind this watering-pot.
THE BLACKBIRD The watering-pot, alias the Intermittent Baldpate, so called because there flows from his copper scalp when he is tilted a marvelous growth of silver hair.
THE GUINEA-HEN [_Spying the_ CAT, _who, outstretched along an apple-bough is watching with half-closed eyes._] I have among my guests the Cat.
THE BLACKBIRD Tomkyns de Tomkyns! [_A_ BIRD _is heard warbling in a tree._]
THE GUINEA-HEN I have the Chaffinch!
THE BLACKBIRD Let him chaff inchworms, what care we?
THE GUINEA-HEN The Darning-needle!
THE BLACKBIRD She shall mend up Ragged Robin, now's his chance!
PATOU [_More and more disgusted._] All that is supposed to be funny!
THE GUINEA-HEN [_Pecking a cabbage leaf from which roll drops of dew._] I have the Dew!
PATOU [_Grimly._] Your witticism for her?
THE BLACKBIRD [_Brightly._] Fresh-water pearls!
THE GUINEA-HEN [_Pointing out several_ CHICKS _walking among the crowd._] Have you seen them? I have several of the A.I.'s Chicks!
THE PHEASANT-HEN A.I.?
THE GUINEA-HEN The Acme Incubator.
THE PHEASANT-HEN Oh, have you?
THE GUINEA-HEN [_Presenting the_ CHICKS.] All from the topmost compartment!
THE PHEASANT-HEN Indeed?
ONE OF THE CHICKS [_Nudging his neighbour._] She is dumbfounded!
THE GUINEA-HEN [_Contemptuously._] Eggs hatched by the old vulgar method, fie!
THE BLACKBIRD, Good Lord, exempt us!
THE MAGPIE [_Announcing._] The Guinea-pig!
THE GUINEA-HEN It's the famous one, you know! The Guinea-pig who was inoculated--surely you remember the case--very well, that's the one! There you see him. I made a point of getting him to come. Everybody is here! I have everybody! I have--[_To the_ GUINEA-PIG.] How do you do? [_To the_ PHEASANT-HEN.] I have our great philosopher Tur-Key--Yes, it should be written with a hyphen--who will give us a little talk among the currant bushes under the tea-roses--[_To a pa.s.sing_ HEN.] How do you do? [_To the_ PHEASANT-HEN.] Educational Tea or Currant Topics! [_Whirling from one to the other._] Everyone is here, everyone of the slightest mark or consequence! The Pheasant-hen is here, in a frock from fairyland. The Duck is here, who is so good as to say he will recite for us by and by.
The Tortoise is here--[_Noticing that the_ TORTOISE _is not there_] I was mistaken, the Tortoise is not here. She is late.
THE BLACKBIRD [_Affecting deep concern._] What is the little talk she seems so regrettably likely to miss?
THE GUINEA-HEN [_Suddenly serious._] The Moral Problem.
THE BLACKBIRD What a pity!
[_The_ GUINEA-HEN _goes to the back, scattering greetings, in ecstasies of sociability._]
THE PHEASANT-HEN [_To the_ BLACKBIRD.] Who is the Tortoise?
THE BLACKBIRD A hard old character, impervious, I fear, to moral problems, who goes in for walking matches in a loud check suit!
[_Murmur among the hollyhocks._]
THE PHEASANT-HEN Listen, a Drone!
THE GUINEA-HEN [_Briskly returning._] The Drone is here! In the bright light overhead, what a stylish figure of a fly!
THE BLACKBIRD No "at home" complete without it! Ladies cry for it! Won't be happy until--
