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The Quartette.
The tricksy Monkey, the Goat, the Ass, and bandylegged Mishka the Bear, determine to play a quartette. They provide themselves with the necessary pieces of music—with two fiddles, and with an alto and a counter-bass. Then they sit down on a meadow under a lime-tree, prepared to enchant the world by their skill. They work away at their fiddlesticks with a will; and they make a noise, but there is no music in it.
"Stop, brothers, stop!" cries the Monkey, "wait a little! How can we get our music right? It 's plain, you mustn't sit as you are. You, Mishka, with your counter-bass, face
