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144 Rostand
heard of no more, having been nothing but a variety of
a variety!
The Game Cock appears. He greets Chante-
cler with the announcement that he is the Cham
pion fighter, that he has killed so and so many
Cocks in one day and an equal number on other
occasions. Chantecler replies simply,
"
I have
never killed anything. But as I have at different
times succored, defended, protected this one and
that, I might perhaps be called, in my fashion,
brave."
The fight begins. Chantecler is wounded and
about to succumb, when suddenly all the guests
present rush to Chantecler for protection : the com
mon enemy, the Hawk is seen to approach.
Chantecler mistakes the cowardice of those who
come to seek his aid, for friendship; but the
moment the danger is over, the crowd again cir
cles around the fighters, inciting the Game Cock
to kill Chantecler. But at the critical moment the
Game Cock mortally wounds himself with his own
spurs, and is jeered and driven off the scene by the
same mob that formerly cheered him on. Chante
cler, weak and exhausted from loss of blood,
disillusioned and stung to the very soul, follows
the pheasant hen to the Forest.
Soon he finds himself a henpecked husband: he
may not crow to his heart s content any more, he
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