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Wed, 09 Sep 2009
"Hello, Here are a couple of Dancing Monkeys for you to enjoy. Don't forget the Jataka Tales. They are beautiful. xxx
THE WOOD - MAIDEN BETUSHKA
The Dancing
Monkeys
A PRINCE had some Monkeys trained
to dance.
Being naturally great mimics of men's actions,
they showed themselves
most apt pupils, and when arrayed in their rich
clothes and masks, they
danced as well as any of the courtiers. The
spectacle was often
repeated with great applause, till on one occasion
a courtier, bent on
mischief, took from his pocket a handful of nuts
and threw them upon
the stage. The Monkeys at the sight of the nuts
forgot their dancing
and became (as indeed they were) Monkeys
instead of actors. Pulling off
their masks and tearing their robes, they fought
with one another for
the nuts. The dancing spectacle thus came to an
end amidst the laughter
and ridicule of the
audience.
"Hello, Here are a couple of Dancing Monkeys for you to enjoy. Don't forget the Jataka Tales. They are beautiful. xxx
THE WOOD - MAIDEN