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(1880) Author: Albert Alberg - Tema: Fables
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THE MONKEYS.

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whole business, and all you others have to take
your turn, just as Master Hanuman directs
you."

" As the nigger performers black their white
faces, hadn’t we better white-wash ours, to
make ourselves as hideous as possible ?
Perhaps the public would like that ? " proposed a
large chimpanzee ape.

" Oh! no, no, no!" cried everybody in a
chorus.

" And as you can’t sing a bit, everybody has
to tell a tale instead, grave or gay, just to suit
his nature; but no gammon, you know,—no
fickle falsehoods of your own ingenious coinage,
—all truth, honour bright, for my old friend here
who has come to see me, means to publish them
afterwards for the edification of his
children-friends, just as the nigger minstrels publish
their songs. They have method in their
madness, those funny fellows, and so we must have
too. To reward you for your good behaviour,
at the conclusion, everybody is allowed to join
in the general melde, and gambol about, and
pommel each other as much as they like.
What say you comrades, are you content ? "

And all the baboons, apes, and monkeys

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