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THE OAK
This unanimity was inevitable.... We must now decide, in order to avoid
reprisals, which form of execution will be the most practical, the easiest,
the quickest and the safest, which will leave the fewest accusing traces
when Man finds the little bodies in the forest....
TYLTYL
What is all this about?... What is he driving at?... I am getting tired of
this.... He has got the Blue Bird; let him hand it over....
THE BULL (_coming forward_)
The most practical and the surest way is a good butt with the horns in the
pit of the stomach.... Shall I go at him?...
THE OAK
Who speaks?...
THE CAT
It's the Bull.
THE COW
It would be better to keep quiet.... I won't meddle with it.... I have all
the grass to browse in the field which you can see down there in the blue
light of the moon.... I have quite enough to do....
THE OX
I also.... However, I agree to everything beforehand....
THE BEECH
I can offer my highest branch to hang them on....
THE IVY
And I the slip-knot....
THE FIR-TREE
And I the four planks for their little coffin....
THE CYPRESS
And I a perpetual grant of a tomb....
THE WILLOW
The simplest way would be to drown them in one of my rivers.
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