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THE DOG (_prowling round the_ OAK _and showing his fangs_)
Do you see my teeth, you old cripple?...
THE BEECH (_indignantly_)
He is insulting the Oak!...
THE OAK
Is that the Dog?... Drive him out! We must suffer no traitors among us!...
THE CAT (_aside, to_ TYLTYL)
Send the Dog away.... It's a misunderstanding.... Leave it to me; I will
arrange things.... But send him away as quick as you can....
TYLTYL (_to the_ DOG)
Will you be off!...
THE DOG
Do let me worry the gouty old beggar's moss slippers!.... It will be such a
joke!...
TYLTYL
Hold your tongue!... And be off with you!... Be off, you ugly brute!...
THE DOG
All right, all right, I'm going.... I'll come back when you want me....
THE CAT (_aside, to_ TYLTYL)
It would be a good thing to chain him up, or he will commit some folly; the
Trees will be angry and all will end badly....
TYLTYL
What can I do?... I have lost his leash....
THE CAT
Here's the Ivy just coming along with strong bonds....
THE DOG (_growling_)
I'll come back, I'll come back!... Ugh! Goutytoes! Timbertoes!... Pack of
old stunted growths, pack of old roots!... It's the Cat who's at the bottom
of all this!..
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