TYLTYL (threatening him) Be quiet!...
THE FAIRY Come, that will do.... Let Bread hand the cage for this evening to Tyltyl.... It is just possible that the Blue Bird may be hidden In the Past, at the grandparents'.... In any case, it Is a chance which we must not neglect.... Well, Bread, the cage?
BREAD (solemnly) One moment, if you please, Mrs. Fairy.... (Like an orator making a speech) I call upon all of you to bear witness that this silver cage, which was entrusted to my care by....
THE FAIRY (interrupting him) Enough!... No speeches!... We will go out this way and the children that....
TYLTYL (rather anxiously) Are we to go all alone?...
MYTYL I feel hungry!...
TYLTYL I, too!...
THE FAIRY (to BREAD) Open your Turkish robe and give them a slice of your good stomach....
(BREAD opens his robe, draws his scimitar and cuts two slices out of his stomach and hands them to the CHILDREN.)
SUGAR (approaching the CHILDREN) Allow me at the same time to offer you a few sugar-sticks.... (He breaks off the five fingers of his left hand, one by one, and presents them to the CHILDREN.)