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THE MONKEYS.
77
" Both! " cried several little creatures.
And I felt they were in the right, for "the
mercy lies in the creation of an appetite for
gnats, which causes the curious function of the
little Nile-bird—the feathered toothpick of
the royal crocodile," thought I.
The Barbary ape continued: " When after
a while they came back, the little bird
chattered away in high glee to its parent
"’Why, mother, how you frightened me!’
said the little one. ’ Why did you call that
slimy cave you brought me into, the
crocodile’s gap. There were fine pillars all around,
and a hot vapour came from a subterranean
passage. It must have been a sacred cave,
mother, where there is an occasional feast
for little Nile-birds!’
"’ There is wisdom in a fool’s mouth,’ I
exclaimed to the mother bird," said the
Barbary ape, " ’ that’s the fable you ought to have
told your little one, the first time you wanted
it to take a header into the crocodile’s gap,
and it wouldn’t have been shy.’
"She replied: ’You apes and monkeys may
teach your young ones tricks and artifices, for
you are a shrewd and cunning race, but we
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