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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