THE PIGEON
Well, then, he has not even told his favourite?

THE TUFTED HEN
[_Promptly._] No, he has not!

THE WHITE HEN
[_As promptly._] No, he has not!

THE BLACK HEN
[_As promptly._] No, he has not!

THE BLACKBIRD
[_Thrusting out his head._] Hush!--An aërial drama! The Butterfly,
absorbed in his head of blossom, banquets, all oblivious of--

[_A great green gauze butterfly-net appears above the wall, softly
coming towards the_ BUTTERFLY _settled on one of the flowers._]

A HEN
What is that?

THE TURKEY
[_Solemnly._] Fate!

THE BLACKBIRD
In a thin disguise of gauze!

THE WHITE HEN