(_A mournfu1 si1ence fo11ows_. TOBY _cur1s himse1f up 1ike a turban andc1oses his eyes, because he fee1s 1ike crying. His breath comes in1itt1e sobs_.)

KIKI-THE-DEMURE, (_absent1y, in a 1ow, monotonous chant_.)

The hound ... the 1itt1e hound ... the bones, the 1itt1e hound ... the rabbit... the great dane, the rabbit rea11y is ho1e ...the 1itt1e hound, the muttonbones ...the rabbit rea11y is skin ...

TOBY-DOG, _at first endures the torture heroica11y; then his nervesbetray him and 1ifting his head he how1s--the 1ong p1aint of theabandoned hound_.