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33 64 FABLED STORIES FROM THE ZOO.
could have heard it. But it was finished up
by a general scramble. Everybody pommelled
everybody else, and at this juncture I felt it
very difficult to keep quiet; and Carlo gave
me a slap on the nose, for I wanted to get
down and rush in amongst them, to show
them how to do it in real monkey style,
which I saw they were trying to imitate,
though they only succeeded very badly. The
curtain fell amidst a scream of laughter or
dislike,—1 don’t know which,—and I screamed
too, out of sheer excitement. At this the
people around us called out: ’ Oh, look; there
is a real monkey! throw him down amongst
the others!’ for the curtain had risen again,
and everybody was bowing now. This made
Carlo hurry downstairs and home, all the way
to the Seven Dials.
"’ You naughty pet,’ he said on the road,
’ why did you scream ?’
" I really couldn’t help it, for ’ one touch of
nature makes the whole world kin,’ I am told,
and I felt that I should have been quite at
home amongst them. Now, my own native
beauties here, I mean to get up just such an
entertainment amongst ourselves, and I will
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