_] Is that a chick I see?--[_Springing after him and
driving him in._] Let me catch you!--[_In driving back the_ CHICK, _he
finds himself near the kennel. He calls very softly._] Pheasant-hen!
THE PHEASANT-HEN
[_Lost among the straw, sleepily._] What do you want?
CHANTECLER
[_After a moment's hesitation._] Nothing.--Nothing! [_He goes back to
the top of his ladder._]
THE PHEASANT-HEN
Shall I be able to sleep, I wonder--
PATOU
[_Falling sound asleep._] A puppy's tum--
THE PHEASANT-HEN
[_Indistinctly, overcome by slumber._] To sleep under a roof?--I, with
my gypsy tastes?
CHANTECLER
I am going in. [_He disappears in the hen-house. He is heard saying in a
dreamy voice._] It is time to shut my--my--
THE PHEASANT-HEN
[_In a last effort._]--gyp--sy--tastes.--[_Her head nods and disappears
among the straw._]
CHANTECLER
[_His voice, sleepier and fainter._]--to shut my eyes--[_Silence. He
sleeps. Two green eyes are seen suddenly kindling at the top of
the wall._]
THE CAT
And to open mine! [_Immediately two more yellow eyes shine forth from
the darkness above the hay-cock._]
A VOICE
And mine! [_Two more yellow eyes on the wall._]
ANOTHER VOICE
And mine! [_Two more yellow eyes._]
ANOTHER VOICE
And mine!
SCENE EIGHTH
_The_ POULTRY-YARD _asleep. The_ CAT _awake. Three_ SCREECH-OWLS,
_later the_ MOLE _and the_ VOICE _of the_ CUCKOO.
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