THE WOOD - MAIDEN
BETUSHKA
THE WOOD - MAIDEN
BETUSHKA
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.
Not everything you see is what it appears to be.
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