THIRD PEACOCK.  You cannot stay with us!

SECOND PEACOCK.  Go back to the jackdaws!

FIRST PEACOCK.  Away with you!  Away!

[The jackdaw runs.  The peacocks go, laughing.  The other JACKDAWS enter, followed by the VAIN JACKDAW.]

VAIN JACKDAW.  Ah, here you are!  I have been looking for you.

OLD JACKDAW.  Why do you look for us?

VAIN JACKDAW.  I am a jackdaw.  I want to be with jackdaws.

OLD JACKDAW.  We will have nothing more to do with you!  Away!

VAIN JACKDAW.  But, brothers, my dear, dear brothers, please let me stay with you!

OLD JACKDAW.  You would not walk with jackdaws!  Away!

YOUNG JACKDAW.  You would not talk with jackdaws!  Away!

ANOTHER JACKDAW.  You thought yourself too fine for jackdaws!  Away!

ALL JACKDAWS.  Away!  Away!

[They drive the Vain Jackdaw from the park.]

THE LITTLE JACKAL AND THE CAMEL

SCENE I

TIME:  one morning.
PLACE:  the east bank of the river.

* * * * *

THE JACKAL. 
THE CAMEL.

* * * * *

[The JACKAL stands on the river bank.  He looks longingly toward the west shore.]

JACKAL.  Ah, if I could only get at those crabs over there!  It makes me hungry just to see them!  Now if I could only swim!  Or if I could walk on water!  Or if I had a little canoe!

[Enter the CAMEL. The Jackal whispers to himself.]

Aha!  Now I know the way to get across.

(To the Camel.)

Such news as I have for you, dear friend!

CAMEL.  Must I guess?

JACKAL.  No, I’ll tell you this time.  Listen:  I know a spot where the sugar-cane grows thick.

CAMEL.  Tell me!  I cannot wait!  Tell me!

JACKAL.  I cannot.  I’ll have to show you.  It is on the other side of the river.

CAMEL.  Why, then, I’ll swim across and take you on my back.

JACKAL.  Just the very thing!

CAMEL.  Come, then!  It makes me hungry just to hear of sugar-cane.

[He kneels for the Jackal to get upon his back.]

SCENE II

TIME:  a little later.
PLACE:  the sugar-cane field.

* * * * *

THE JACKAL. 
THE CAMEL. 
FARMER. 
BOYS.

* * * * *

[The CAMEL eats the sugar-cane.  The JACKAL comes running into the field.]

CAMEL.  What!  Have you finished your crabs?

JACKAL.  I cannot eat another one!  Are you not ready to go?

CAMEL.  Ready!  Why, I have just begun.

JACKAL.  I’ll wait for you outside the field, then.