Part 9

Oh, shut up! Here I am, that Boy’s own cousin, as you might say, and I’M not crying!

RABBIT

What’s the matter with the Boy?

CAT and HORSE

(Together.)

Yes! Yes! What?

MONKEY

Wasn’t the Boy just here? I tell you, it’s that DOCTOR!

DOG

Oh, poor little Boy! Oh, his throat. Woo--oo--oo!

HORSE

Throat! Oh! Dear! Dear!

MONKEY

Ah-ha! (To the Horse.) Didn’t that Doctor give YOU something, in YOUR throat?

ALL

That’s so! Yes! He did!

MONKEY

That’s your proof! (Sits on the stone bench.)

CAT

Then it’s true?

MONKEY

As true as there’s milk in cocoanuts.

RABBIT

Oh! Oh!

HORSE

Well, I’m only a horse!

DOG

But the Boy is almost a man.