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 bumblebees... There were also fish of all shapes, big crabs that only walk sideways; shrimps that got in the way with so many legs; shellfish with open shells like books; snails that carry the house on their backs and feel their way with their trunks. There was even an old Austro-South American side-neck turtle with little black eyes and a re-varnished shell. The orchestra was made up of cicadas and small birds: canaries, siskin, seadeaters, house wren, tyrants. At its head was a chalk-browed mockingbird, a famous conductor. This orchestra performed the most beautiful music in the world, nightingale fados, plumbeous seedeater songs, kingfisher barcaroles. It was beautiful!

At last the prince gave the order for the quadrille. The orchestra broke into a composition by the conductor Double-collared seedeater and the gentlemen began to