<h2>THE CROW AND THE FOX</h2>
<p>TIME: <i>yesterday noon</i>.<br/>
PLACE: <i>a high tree in a grove</i>.</p>
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<td>MADAM CROW.</td>
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<td>MISS CROW, <i>her Daughter</i>.</td>
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<td>MASTER FOX.</td>
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<p>[MADAM CROW <i>sits in the tree. Enter</i> MISS CROW. <i>She
carries a large piece of cheese in her mouth.</i>]</p>
<p>MADAM. O joy! O joy! Come, dear daughter, come! We'll dine as if
we were queen and princess!</p>
<p>[<i>Miss Crow flies to Madam Crow. Enter</i> MASTER FOX.]</p>
<p>FOX. I bid you good morning, dear madam.</p>
<p>MADAM. Good morning to you, dear sir.</p>
<p>FOX (<i>sitting under tree</i>). With your permission, I'll
speak with your daughter.</p>
<p>MADAM. She'll be pleased to listen, that she will—you are
so clever.</p>
<p>FOX (<i>modestly</i>). Nay, madam, not so clever, only
thoughtful.</p>
<p>[<i>He sighs deeply twice.</i>]</p>
<p>MADAM. You have something on your mind.</p>
<p>FOX (<i>sighing</i>). Yes, dear madam,—I am thinking of
your daughter.</p>
<p>MADAM. Then speak! Speak now, sir!—at once, sir!</p>
<p>FOX. I speak. O sweet Miss Crow, how beautiful your wings
are!</p>
<p>MADAM (<i>pleased</i>). Do you hear that, daughter?</p>
<p>[<i>Miss Crow nods, spreading her wings proudly.</i>]</p>
<p>FOX. I speak again. How bright your eye, dear maid! How graceful
your neck!</p>
<p>MADAM. Bend your neck, child! Now bend it well that he may
better see your grace.</p>
<p>[<i>Miss Crow bends neck twice.</i>]</p>
<p>FOX. But oh, that such a sweet bird should be dumb!—should
be so utterly dumb!</p>
<p>[<i>He weeps gently in his little pocket handkerchief.</i>]</p>
<p>MADAM (<i>indignantly</i>). Do you think, sir, she cannot
<i>caw</i> as well as the rest of us?</p>
<p>FOX. I must think so, dear madam. Alas!</p>
<p>[<i>Weeping again in his little pocket handkerchief.</i>]</p>
<p>MADAM. You shall think so, then, no longer! Caw, child, caw, as
you have never cawed before!</p>
<p>MISS CROW (<i>opening mouth; dropping cheese</i>). Caw! Caw!</p>
<p>[<i>Fox quickly snaps up the cheese.</i>]</p>
<p>FOX (<i>going</i>). Thank you, Miss Crow. Remember, dear madam,
that whatever I said of her beauty, I said nothing of her
brains.</p>
<p>[<i>He goes, waving the crows a farewell with his little pocket
handkerchief.</i>]</p>
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