(Excitement.) Were I obliged to give the wings to the clergy, the legs to the military, and the carcass to civil functionaries, there would be nothing of my chicken left for me.

Well, this is our case.

We fatten chickens; others eat them.

It would be far wiser for us to keep them for ourselves.

(Yes, yes.) A Pole, the Citizen Strassnowski, undertakes to defend the Government.