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The Monkey and the Pease

Adaptions and Imitations of Hindoo Fables

Leo Tolstoy

A Monkey was carrying both her hands full of pease. A pea dropped on the ground; the Monkey wanted to pick it up, and dropped twenty peas. She rushed to pick them up and lost all the rest. Then she flew into a rage, swept away all the pease and ran off.

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