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THE MONKEYS.
81
what we were good for; not, indeed, that we
wanted to enlist against the Zulus, not we.
One day, when the soldiers were bathing in the
sea, the whole of our band rushed with a hue
and cry down the steep cliffs, and snatched
up most of their regimental clothing, and
made off to the thicket. In a little while
we re-appeared on the cliffs, arrayed in our
captured trophies, and showed fight. Some
of us had only a jacket on, others only a shirt,
or a boot, or a pair of pants through which
the arms were stuck,—for we had had no
previous drilling in dressing. However, the
soldiers, who had now emerged from the water,
were no better equipped, for they lacked
precisely what we wore ; but the plucky fellows
began to organize themselves for battle against
us, when down came a shower of stony missiles
from us, and as soon as we began to roll down
large boulder-stones upon them (for they wished
to cut us off from our caves), they had to run
to save their lives, and we followed them up to
their barracks, and hooted at them in defiance,
and then made off for the woods, quarrelling
amongst ourselves how to divide the booty.
They got hold of one poor baboon and shaved
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