(One hundred thousand strong.) Hey! Hey! Hey! Rah! Rah! Rah! Federated Republics forever! Long live the Court of Progress! (The cheering continues for fifteen minutes.)
NOXUS PODUNKUS
(When comparative silence is restored, and blinking his open eye.) Beautiful! Beautiful! It is as I thought! A wondrous scene! Now for Question Number—let me see (eleven Dizzards point to the place)—Ah, yes! To be sure! (Reads.) Question Number Two—a wonderful question—a deep and subtly devised question—a question which, as I may say, has done as much as any of the others to persuade us to and keep us all in that happy and unquestioning frame of mind which, as we all know, we now so wisely seek to maintain—Souffle! Souffle! (he imbibes)—a question the like of which is not to be found in any other sacred code the world has ever known—and here, my dear fellow-Federationists (he raises a hand), and here is it: Question Two—Ah, yes! (reads) “Is it not true that all men are now honest, kind, true, moral, virtuous and wise?” (He pauses for breath and looks benignly about.)
THE 1ST, 316TH, 3727TH, 4728TH, 6914TH, AND 7178TH
(Jigging vigorously.)
They are! They are!
They rarr! rarr! rarr!
(They walk on their hands.)
NOXUS PODUNKUS
Beautiful! Beautiful! Never have I heard such perfect teamwork! It is wonderful! Not so, my fellow Moonshees?
(He turns.)