The hurdy-gurdy man's monkey, cap in hand, clambered to the neighbouring sill of the great artist's window. And the great artist tossed into his cap a sou. The monkey, putting the sou in his mouth, swallowed it, and grinned. But presently a great discomfort instituted itself in the monkey's abdomen. Whereupon the monkey immediately concluded that the sou was a counterfeit.
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THE SCHOLAR
The scholar laid in solemn reverence a wreath upon the tomb of Beethoven.
"I place this wreath not upon the tomb of Beethoven," he exclaimed, "but upon the grave of music."
But no one heard what he said, because the robins were singing too loudly.