Three monkeys sat on a coconut tree,
Discussing things as they are said to be,
Said one monkey to the other :
"Now listen you two, there’s a certain rumor which can’t be true,
that man has descended from our noble race;
why, the very idea is an utter disgrace,
No monkey has ever deserted his wife,
starved her baby and ruined her life,
and you have never known a mother monk,
who will leave her babies with others to bunk,
and passing them off from one to the other;
till those poor babies hardly know which one was their mother,
and another thing a monk won’t do,
is to go
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