[_Considering him._] What about him? He is just a yellow Guinea-pig!

GUINEA-PIG
[_Snippily correcting._] Khaki, if you please!

CHANTECLER
[_To_ PATOU.] Kha--?

PATOU
A bubble!--And yonder waddling duck--

CHANTECLER
[_Looking at him._] He is going to take his bath--

THE DUCK
[_Drily._] My tub!

CHANTECLER
His--?

PATOU
A bubble!

[_A long grating noise is heard within the house Crrrrrrr, then._]

THE CLOCK
Cuckoo!

THE GREY HEN
[_Leaving her hiding-place and running towards the cat-hole._] His