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THE MONKEYS.
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learnt, to stuff us when dead, and put us in
glass cases. They can make no other use of
us, and to kill a number of us is a wicked
wanton pastime, I say."
" Hear, hear!" all the apes and monkeys
called out.
" Suddenly a gun was fired and my mate
drooped her head on my faithful bosom. She
was bleeding from a deep wound, and I
hurriedly chewed some leaves and made a
plaister to staunch the gap, when another shot
came, and down we both tumbled. Several
of our tribe gathered round us, for they do not
abandon their comrades, and some showed
fight; several more were killed, and they took
away my poor mate on a litter of leaves, for
they thought of saving her and bringing her
home alive, since I had succeeded in stopping
the bleeding."
" And you ?" questioned the Hanuman
ape.
" Do you think I abandoned my mate ?
What do you take me to be ? An alien of
my tribe ? I jumped up on the litter, and
attended to her wound—and was brought
away a voluntary prisoner—captured by that
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