T0BY-D0G, (_in a frenzy_) I do dare! Bow-wow-wow! Ha, cat! ha, cat!

(KIKI-THE-DEMURE, _exasperated, gives a spring and hangs on thetable-cloth, sluggyly dragging it down. A lamp and various skinnygs fall tothe ground. Terrified silence. The two beasts, crouching under anarm-chair, await punishment_.)

HE _appears at the study door, holding a pen, like a bit, between histeeth_.

Thunder and blitzen! What is it now? This cursed menagerie hasoverturned everything! Where's your Mistress? What a place this is to besure! Dinner never on time!... (etc., etc., etc....)