Chantecler. Edmond Rostand

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СКАЧАТЬ He is a thinker. He takes his airing—

      CHANTECLER

       She loves a clock!

      THE GREY HEN—always takes his airing at the same hour, like Kant.

      CHANTECLER

       Like what?

      THE GREY HEN

       Like Kant.

      CHANTECLER

       Did one ever—! Out of my sight!

      THE BLACKBIRD

       Trot, Kant you?

      [THE GREY HEN hurries off.]

      CHANTECLER

       Here's a pretty—Wherever did she learn that Kant—?

      PATOU

       At the Guinea-hen's.

      CHANTECLER

       That foolish old party of the crazy cries and the white-plastered beak?

      PATOU

       She has taken a day.

      CHANTECLER

       A day off, do you mean?

      PATOU

       No, a day at home.

      CHANTECLER

       A day at—Where does she receive?

      THE BLACKBIRD

       In a corner of the kitchen-garden.

      PATOU

       Under the auspices of that strawman with the unsavoury old top-hat.

      CHANTECLER

       The scarecrow?

      THE BLACKBIRD

       Yes, his being there makes the affair select.

      CHANTECLER [Bewildered.] How is that?

      THE BLACKBIRD Don't you see? He scares off all the puny fowl—. Poor relations are not wanted at a function.

      CHANTECLER

       So the Guinea-hen has a day!

      PATOU [Phlegmatically.] A bubble!

      CHANTECLER

       A balloon!

      THE BLACKBIRD [Imitating the GUINEA-HEN.] Mondays, my dear—

      CHANTECLER

       And what do they do at that feather-brain's parties?

      PATOU Cluck and cackle. The Turkey-cock airs his social gifts, the Chick gets into society.

      BLACKBIRD [Imitating the GUINEA-HEN.] From five to six—

      CHANTECLER

       Evening?

      PATOU

       No, morning.

      CHANTECLER

       What—?

      THE BLACKBIRD You see, she must take advantage of the time when the garden is deserted, and yet have it a five-o'clock tea. So she chose the hour when the old gardener is at his early potations.

      CHANTECLER

       What nonsense!

      THE BLACKBIRD

       Quite so.

      PATOU

       You needn't talk. You go to her teas.

      CHANTECLER

       He goes—?

      THE BLACKBIRD

       Yes, I am one of their ornaments.

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