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FABLED STORIES FROM THE ZOO.
would not believe in real ones,’ and he said
’that they had nothing more black about them
than their faces and their dress-coats.’"
" Oh, yes," said a queer little monkey, " their
pants."
" And their boots," added another wee thing.
" You begin to be funny, my hearties ! All
right! we will all play at this nigger-business
by-and-by, to keep ourselves merry. I think
we are far better adapted by nature for it
than they are. Only I must first tell you a
little more about them, so that we may imitate
their imitations in as perfect a manner as
possible."
" Why do they blacken their faces, the silly
fellows ?" said an ourang-outang.
"Why, bless you, they are not silly; it is
the people that look at them that are the silly
ones. Carlo told me on our way home that
they had performed one night without having
their faces blackened, and then nobody cared
to listen to them, or thought they sang half
as well as usual."
"And very properly," said the Hanuman
ape, who perhaps owed much of his sagacity
to the constant intercourse in which his race
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