With a cry of delight he seizes it and proceeds ravenously to devour it.

But at the first mouthful renewed howlings arise.

"Der Kronprinz," in a state of intense excitement, drops his sausage and begins a wild search in the corners of the stage and in the wings for the source of the uproar.

The sausage thus abandoned, aided by an invisible cord, wabbles off the stage before the eyes of the wondering and delighted audience.

Thereafter "der Kronprinz" reappears with his "hund" under his arm and begins an active and distracted search for his precious sausage.