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When You Talk to a Monkey

by Rowena Bennett

Rowena Bastin Bennett

When you talk to a monkey
He seems very wise.
He scratches his head,
And he blinks both his eyes;
But he won't say a word,
He just swings on a rail
And makes a big question mark
Out of his tail.




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