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33 64 FABLED STORIES FROM THE ZOO.
love which forced me not to forsake my own
dear mate in distress."
" Quite touching!" mocked the wicked little
monkeys, and made actions as if they drying
their tears; but I almost believe they were
touched at heart, for they looked very grave,
but then they do that in their wildest antics,
and are melancholy in their fun, like some
dry-humoured jesters, so there is no telling the
truth of their real feelings.
" Now, for a merry story!" said the
Hanuman ape. " Master Baboon, you haven’t been
funny yet."
" Very well, just listen," answered the big
baboon. " Some hundreds of our tribe were
living in the caves near Cape Town, where
we often witnessed from the hills the
drilling of the red-coated soldiers stationed near.
We soon learned some of their manoeuvres, and
used to draw up in files, armed with bludgeons,
and showed them at a distance how we drilled
for fight, and I think we should have been
worse to tackle than the Zulus, our
neighbours. Well, these soldiers used to roar with
laughter at our drill. They thought it funny !
so we were determined to show them one day
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