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Let's take a journey with the Bobtail Monkey.

Once there was a monkey who was very young and foolish.

He was always playing tricks and doing foolish and dangerous things.

All the other monkeys kept telling him he ought to be more careful or someday he would get hurt.

But he just wouldn't listen to them at all.

One day he was racing through the forest, climbing the highest trees and swinging from the longest vines.

And he was so careless that he fell down out of the trees right into a thorn bush.

A long, sharp thorn went right through the tip of his tail.

Ouch! Oh, ouch! he cried, holding his tail.

Oh, how it hurts! And he began bawling very loudly.

For you see, the foolish monkey wasn't a brave monkey at all.

Just then, a barber came walking by, carrying his razor with him.

When the monkey saw him, he said, Please, Mr. Barber, help me cut this thorn out of my tail.

So the barber got out his razor and started to cut the thorn out.

But remember, the foolish monkey wasn't very brave.

So, when he saw the razor getting near his tail, he yelled, Oh, it's going to hurt! And with these words, he gave a big jump.

The razor went through his tail, cutting the tip of it right off.

When the monkey saw this, he became very angry.

Just look what you've done to my tail, he said.

You must put my tail back on

for me or else you'll have to give me your razor.

Of

course, the barber couldn't put the monkey's tail back on.

So instead, he gave the monkey his razor.

Then the foolish monkey went walking away through the forest.