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SCENE VI.

—MAGIC KITCHEN OF PRINCE RIQUET.
All the Little Cooks discovered, busily engaged—Music—Piano, when speaking.
Amou.
Ah! marvellous scene, what wondrous animation!
How well each scullion seems to know his station;
Frying and boiling, baking, stewing, roasting,
Twisting and turning, tossing up and toasting.
And who's the bride? this banquet that you set her.

Cook.
What don't you know? the Princess Amouretta.

Amou.
That's me! I'm in a dream—I am the bride you
Cater for. The bridegroom—

Prince Riquet enters.
Riquet.
Stands beside you.

[Tableau—Scene closes in.