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33 64 FABLED STORIES FROM THE ZOO.
"Well, then!" interposed the baboon again.
" Yes, but how ? Alive!" continued the
West Indian monkey; "and I just left two
quills standing out, one on each side, to
make him look all the more ridiculous and
then—"
" And then?" inquisitively asked several little
monkeys at once.
" I sent him adrift! His own crew did not
recognize him thus, and pecked at him, and
drove him away, and the wretched remnant
of a bird went forth unto the world to show
them my new patent way of punishing thieves.
My word, I had created a new specimen of
birds!"
" Wicked little monkeys," thought I.
"Why don’t you grin, monkeys ? " said the
West Indian. "Jocko, make them laugh."
But Jocko heeded him not. He had quite
given up his rdle of jester, which he had
promised to assume, and had crept close to
the bars and netting of the cage, as near as
he could get to a tawny young man with
black curls, who was keeping his face close
to him, and held the pet monkey’s little hand,
which he had stretched out through the bars, in
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