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THE MONKEYS.
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enemies; and though they are precious small
warriors, they goad him, and frequently almost
vanquish him, till, with panting breath, and half
mad from the stings of his tormentors, who
are too small for him to be able to defend
himself against them, he runs, half-delirious,
to the river, and plunges into the soothing
water."
I was wondering to myself who they could
be that were too small to be vanquished,—
when the Barbary ape continued : " It was
those troublesome little things, the gnats!
I reached my palm-tree home in safety, and
found my mate, and we chattered and had a
grin at the torments of the crocodile, who lay
in agony on the torrid sand gasping and
roaring, as though he, in his despair and in his
turn, was invoking some Egyptian deities to
send him relief. And I almost think the large
beast did not cry in agony in vain, for perched
in the same tree as we, were two little
Nile-birds,—the zik-zak as they call them. It was
a parent bird and a young one.
"’ Now come along,’ said the bigger one.
’ You see the crocodile. Now we will fly into
his open mouth, and have a feast of gnats."
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