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    The Autobiography of a Monkey
    The Autobiography of a Monkey
    The Autobiography of a Monkey
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    The Autobiography of a Monkey

    By Henry Mayer and Albert Bigelow Paine

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Autobiography of a Monkey - Henry Mayer

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      Title: The Autobiography of a Monkey

      Author: Albert Bigelow Paine

      Illustrator: Hy. Mayer

      Release Date: September 4, 2010 [EBook #33629]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A MONKEY ***

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      THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A MONKEY

      FOUND AND PICTURED

      BY HY. MAYER

      VERSES BY ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE

      NEW YORK R. H. RUSSELL

      MDCCCXCVII

      Copyright 1897

      BY

      ROBERT HOWARD RUSSELL

      Part First.

      THE DEPARTURE FROM THE FOREST.

      Where the light laughs in through the tree-tops

      And sports with the tangled glade,

      In the depths of an Afric forest

      My earliest scenes were laid.

      In a bower that was merry with smilax

      From the grimace of no-where, I woke

      I was born on the first day of April

      And they called me a jungle joke.

      And the voices of birds were about me—

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