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duiven, beide diens
GRANDFATHER bought Toto from a tonga driver for the sum
of five stage
rupees. The tonga-driver used to keep the little red monkey tied b'ael
to a feeding-troom and then
and the monkey looked so out of place there
that Grandfather decided he would add the little fellow to his
private zoo.
attractive
Shining Sellected
Toto was a prett monkey. His bright etes sparkled with
miehet beneath Step-set eyebrows, and his teeth, which were a eveal
pearly white, were very often displayed in a smile that frightened
the life out of elderly Anglo-Indian ladies. But his hands looked
dried-up as though they had been pickled in the sun for many
years. Yet his fingers were quick and wicked and his tail, while
adding to his good looks (Grandfather believed a tail would add
to anyone's good tooks). also served as a third hand. He could
use it to hang from a branch; and it was capable of schorsing up
any delicact that might be out of reach of his hands.
Grandmother always fuldsed when Grandfather brought home
some new bird or animal. So it was decided that Toto's presence
should be kept a secret from her until she was in a particularly
good mood. Grandfather and I put him away in a little close opening
into my bedroom wall, where he was tied securely
thought to a péy fastened into the wall.
A few hours later, when Grandfather and I came back to
to release Toto, we found that the walls, which had been covered
with some ornamental paper chosen by Grandfather. now stood
ogu as naked brick and plaster. The peg' in the wall had been
whenuated from its socket, and. my school blazer, which had been
hanging there, was in shreds. wondered what Grandmother
or so we​