. The world of the great forest; how animals, birds, reptiles, insects talk, think, work, and live . Soon, totheir great joy, they heard above their heads thevoices of the missing ones, and a great cry aroseamong them. Welcome ! they shouted with onevoice. The flock alighted. What makes you so is almost dark, cried the ngozos together. Dont speak of it, cried the belated flock. Dont speak of it. We had an awful fight with themonkeys, and we are lucky to have escaped withour lives from their clutches. Hateful monkeys ! cried all the ngozos. See how dilapidated some of us look, said oneo
. The world of the great forest; how animals, birds, reptiles, insects talk, think, work, and live . Soon, totheir great joy, they heard above their heads thevoices of the missing ones, and a great cry aroseamong them. Welcome ! they shouted with onevoice. The flock alighted. What makes you so is almost dark, cried the ngozos together. Dont speak of it, cried the belated flock. Dont speak of it. We had an awful fight with themonkeys, and we are lucky to have escaped withour lives from their clutches. Hateful monkeys ! cried all the ngozos. See how dilapidated some of us look, said oneof the late comers; and one of the flock, turning her THE WORLD OF THE GREAT FOREST back, cried, Look at me. I am almost without atail. An ugly monkey plucked it off. It was hardfor me to fly and reach our meeting-place, for havinghardly any tail I flew with difficulty. Look at me, said a second one, as he alsoturned his back to the ngozos. My feathers areall gone between my wings. I wonder how I es-caped from that savage monkey. All the ngozos listened silently when they heardthis tale of A third one said, Look at me, ngozos. See thestate of my poor feathers and how many have beenplucked by one of those monkeys. But I suc-ceeded in giving him a bite and cut off one of hisfingers, and he had to let me go. He gave sucha cry of pain. * Good for you ! shouted all the parrots; goodfor you, ngozos ! How did the fight happen? asked one of thewise ones who had been listening. Tell us. Then the chief of the flock said : Our flock wason a tree feasting on delicious fruits, when suddenly THE NGOZOS we heard a troop of monkeys coming. Soon theyleaped on our tree and wanted to drive us away, andattacked us. We tried to resist, but the monkeys areso quick of motion, and they have hands and feet thatcan clutch, while we ngozos can only bite. The com-bat was unequal. One of our number was killed bythem. The reason that we are so late is that we hadto fly slowly on account of our disabled
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