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Updated: April 30, 2025
I'll make Jed put a good lock on the monkey-cage after this. Now come out to the kitchen and I'll give you each a cookie." Wango seemed to want a cookie also, for he chattered and made queer faces as he shook the door of his cage. "No, indeed! You sha'n't have a bit!" scolded Miss Winkler. "You were very bad." Wango chattered louder than ever.
She had put him in the way of something absolutely special an old house untouched, untouchable, indescribable, an old corner such as one didn't believe existed, and the holy calm of which made the chatter of studios, the smell of paint, the slang of critics, the whole sense and sound of Paris, come back as so many signs of a huge monkey-cage.
Mappo, as soon as he got outside the traveling circus cage on wheels, looked all about him to see if any one were watching him. But no one seemed to be doing so. His man friend, who had trained him to do many tricks, was riding on the seat with the driver of the big monkey-cage wagon, and this man never looked around, as Mappo slipped out.
When they left the tent, the sun was low and the dust hovered in golden clouds over the throng of women, working-men, and soldiers. It was time for dinner; but as they passed the monkey-cage, Madame Ewans noticed such a crush of eager spectators squeezing in between the baize curtains on the platform in front that she could not resist the temptation to follow suit.
Don't you suppose I know how to manage a little monkey-cage of a country like that? Why, with the dough the General's willing to turn loose I could put two more coats of Japan varnish on him and have him elected Governor of Georgia.
You must have been about ten. I had taken you to the Zoological Gardens, such as they were." Her laughter rippled out softly again. "I remember," she nodded, "it was dreadful." "Yes," he said; "we were at the monkey-cage; you had grown tired of feeding the ostrich with centesimi." "Oh, Philip!" she interrupted him; "I never, never would have done such a thing.
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