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FABLED STORIES FROM THE ZOO.
him, and then turned him out; but we would
not have such an alien amongst us, so we drove
him back, and he had to seek refuge in the
barracks, and finally became one of them. I
got wounded in the affray, and was captured,
and finally sent here, and that’s the only thing
in the story that’s not funny."
"Why don’t you put on your regimentals,
and you might make us grin ?" jeered a little
monkey.
" I only got the recollection of the affair as
my share of the spoil," said the baboon, with
stoic composure.
" Now you young rascal from the West
Indies, let us hear what you have got to
say," said the Hanuman, following up the
programme.
" My story is short and sweet! I invented
a new patent punishment! I was a captive
from the time I was a wee youngster. I was
brought up in civilization, and that may account
for my being cleverer than most of my
less-educated cousins. I was fastened with a
chain to my own little kennel, but whenever
I indulged in a snooze, immediately there
came some half-civilized Johnny Crows,—
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