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(1929) [MARC] Author: Axel Munthe - Tema: Medicine
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their fleas. Billy had chased the Siamese kitten
all over the garden and ended by carrying it up
to the top of his fig-tree and proceeded to pull
off all its hair. Billy had been constantly teasing
the tortoises. Amanda the biggest tortoise had
laid seven eggs as big as pigeon-eggs to be hatched
by the sun, tortoise-fashion, Billy had gulped
them down in an instant. Had they at least been
careful not to leave any wine-bottles about?
There was an ominous silence. Pacciale, the
most trustworthy of the household, admitted at
last that on two occasions Billy had been seen
sneaking out of the wine-cellar with a bottle in
each hand. Three days ago two more
wine-bottles had been discovered in the corner of the
monkey-house, carefully buried under the sand.
According to the instructions Billy had been
immediately locked up in the monkey-house on
water and bread pending my return. The next
morning the monkey-house had been found
empty, Billy had broken out in the night in some
inexplicable way, the bars were intact, the key
to the padlock was in Baldassare’s pocket. The
whole household had been hunting for Billy in
vain all over the village. Baldassare had caught
him at last this very morning high up on the
mountain of Barbarossa, fast asleep, with a dead
bird in his hand. While the investigation was
going on, Billy was sitting at the top of his tree
looking defiantly at me, there could be no doubt
that he understood every word we said. Stern
disciplinary measures were necessary. Monkeys
like children must learn to obey until they can
learn to command. Billy was beginning to look

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