Then you cannot stay with us.
VAIN JACKDAW. I do not wish to stay with jackdaws. I will not walk with
jackdaws. I will not talk with jackdaws. I think myself too fine for
jackdaws.
OLD JACKDAW. Then, jackdaws, we will think no more about him. Come, now,
to find our breakfast! Come!
[_They go. The_ PEACOCKS _enter._]
VAIN JACKDAW. Good-morning, brothers.
PEACOCKS. Ha, ha, ha!
VAIN JACKDAW. Why do you laugh so, brothers?
PEACOCKS. Ha, ha, ha!
VAIN JACKDAW. You must not laugh, dear brothers. I am a peacock like
yourselves.
FIRST PEACOCK. You silly jackdaw!
VAIN JACKDAW. I am no jackdaw. Do I not have feathers like your own?
SECOND PEACOCK. Ha, ha! I dropped them on the ground this morning.
THIBAUD PEACOCK. Let's take them from him!
[Illustration]
VAIN JACKDAW. No, no! I beg you--
FIRST PEACOCK. Come, let's pull them out!
[_They pull the peacock feathers from the jackdaw._]
THIRD PEACOCK. You cannot stay with us!
SECOND PEACOCK. Go back to the jackdaws!
FIRST PEACOCK. Away with you! Away!
[_The jackdaw runs. The peacocks go, laughing. The other_ JACKDAWS
_enter, followed by the_ VAIN JACKDAW.]
VAIN JACKDAW. Ah, here you are! I have been looking for you.
OLD JACKDAW. Why do you look for us?
VAIN JACKDAW.
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