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THE MONKEYS.
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brought him with me all the way from South
Ameriky.’
" ’ But,’ suggested one of his friends, they can
tell at the Zoo from what part of the world the
monkey comes; they are so awfully learned,
you know.’
’"Very well, I will chance South Ameriky; for
I remember reading at school that there are
many races there they don’t know of yet, and it
might be one of those,—and how we have been
shipwrecked on the coast of—, what coast shall
I say ?’
" ’ New Zealand,’ one proposed.
"’ Piccadilly,’ suggested another little
urchin.
"’ Why, you little idiot, that’s too near at
home, and them Piccadilly streets touch no
water.’
"’ I know,’ said Jem, ’ Stony Arabia. And
that, your worship,’ I will say, ’accounts for
how I have become a street arab.’
" Clever Jim! I wish I could have told him
Whitechapel; that would have been nearer the
truth. Well, Jem and old Murphy took me the
next day to the Zoo, and spun the yarn. I was
accepted, and here I am. I did not want to
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