THE PIGEON
Bravo! I shall have something to tell my mate. We shall long talk of
this!

CHANTECLER
[_Seeing him, with noble courtesy._] Young blue-winged stranger, with
new-fledged bill, thanks! Pray lay my duty at her coral feet!

[_The_ PIGEON _flies off._]

THE BLACKBIRD
Jolly your admirers, it pays!

CHANTECLER
[_In a cordial voice, to the whole barnyard._] To work now, all of you,
with a will!

[_A_ FLY _darts past, buzzing._]

CHANTECLER
Busy and resonant Fly, I love thee! Behold her! What is her flight but
the heart-whole gift of herself?

THE TURKEY
[_Loftily._] Yes.--She has dropped considerably in my esteem, however,
since that matter of the--

CHANTECLER
Of the what?