"Who is that?" thundered the King, glaring about him. "Who has the bad manners to sneeze in the King's presence?"
They searched about until they found the Monkey hidden under the throne, and hauled him out.
"What hast thou, wily tree-climber," asked the King, "that I should not bid the executioner cut off thy head?"
The monkey had no answer ready. At last he
said, "O King, I have some plantain-peel
and pellets of paper." But
the King was angry at this,
and the greedy Monkey
was led away, and
his head was
cut off.
The Sparrow's Revenge
