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To: nihil who wrote (5782)5/23/2000 12:36:00 AM
From: Volsi Mimir  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 13018
 
SCENE: A wild and desolate region; only thickets, rocks, and a single tree are seen. Euelpides and Pisthetaerus enter, each with a bird in his hand.

Euelpides:
To his jay. Do you think I should walk straight for yon tree?

Pisthetaerus:
To his crow. Cursed beast, what are you croaking to me? . . . to retrace my steps?

Euelpides:
Why, you wretch, we are wandering at random, we are exerting ourselves only to return to the same spot; we're wasting our time.

Pisthetaerus:
To think that I should trust to this crow, which has made me cover more than a thousand furlongs!

Euelpides:
And that I, in obedience to this jay, should have worn my toes down to the nails!

Pisthetaerus:
If only I knew where we were . . .