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It leaped upon her knee, put its slender arms as far round her neck as possible, said "Oo-oo-wee!" several times in a very sad tone of voice, and laid its head upon her bosom. This was too much for poor Ailie; she thought of the dead mother of this infant monkey, and wept as she stroked its hairy little head and shoulders.
"Won't it come to me, dear, sweet pet? Do come; I'll be as kind to you almost as your poor mother." The monkey looked at the child, but said nothing. "Come, monkey, dear puggy, do come," repeated Ailie, in a still more insinuating voice. The monkey still declined to "come," but it looked very earnestly at the child, and trembled a good deal, and said, "Oo-oo-wee; oo-oo-wee!"
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