TOBY-DOG (indignantly)
Did one ever hear the like!
KIKI-THE-DEMURE, (peremptorily)
I happen to have had the opportunity of making a very close study of one....
TOBY-DOG (aside)
He makes me laugh!
KIKI-THE-DEMURE
... It was the farmer's horse that grazed in the meadow. My life, for a whole month, was embittered by that roving mountain. Lying under the hedge, I could see his heavy feet disfiguring the ground. I breathed his vulgar odor and heard his strident cry shaking the air. Once when he was eating the lower twigs of the hedge, I saw myself—the whole of me—reflected in one of his eyes! I fled ... and from that day my hatred was so strong that I wildly hoped to annihilate the monster. I'll go up to him, thought I, I'll plant myself firmly in front of him, and the desire of his death will be so strong in my eyes, that perhaps, he'll die when he meets my look...
TOBY-DOG (diverted)