_] This surpasses all! An albino! Charmed, my
dear sir, honoured, enchanted! Oh, on his head he wears a cheese!
A HEN
So he does, a cheese!--A cream cheese, to be sure! A cream cheese!
ALL THE HENS
A cream cheese!
THE MAGPIE
Cr?ve Coeur Cock!
THE GUINEA-HEN
[_Rushing to meet him._] Oh, he has horns on his head!
THE PEACOCK
Satanic.
THE MAGPIE
Ptarmigan Cock!
THE PEACOCK
Aesthetic.
THE GUINEA-HEN
[_Rushing up to him._] Oh, he wears on his head an Assyrian helmet!
THE MAGPIE
White Pile--
THE GUINEA-HEN
[_Rushing up to him._] He wears on his head--[_Stopping short at sight
of his docked comb._] Nothing whatever. He wears nothing whatever on his
head. How odd it looks!
THE CAT
[_From his apple tree, to the_ BLACKBIRD, _indicating the_ WHITE PILE
GAME-COCK.] There is the champion. The dust conceals a razor on his lean
foot. [_The_ GAME-COCK _disappears among the throng of fancy_ COCKS,
_who are surrounded by a swarm of cackling_ HENS.]
THE MAGPIE
Negro Cock!
THE GUINEA-HEN
[_Gone quite mad among the multitude of_ COCKS _now filling the
kitchen-garden with their extraordinary head-gear aigrettes, and plumes
and helmets, double and triple combs._] Charmed, honoured,
enchanted--enchanted, honoured, charmed!
PATOU
She has taken leave of her wits!
THE GUINEA-HEN
[_To the empty air._] Charmed, charmed, enchanted, en--
THE MAGPIE
Cock with Supernumerary Toe!--Naked-necked Cock!
THE GUINEA-HEN
Naked?
THE MAGPIE
Necked!
THE GUINEA-HEN
[_To a_ HEN.
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