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The Story of Doctor Dolittle
of monkey-servants to work for him and to make life pleasant for him—perhaps then he will not wish to go."
"Then the Grand Gorilla got up"Then Chee-Chee got up; and all the others whispered, "Sh! Look! Chee-Chee, the great Traveler, is about to speak!"
And Chee-Chee said to the other monkeys,
"My friends, I am afraid it is useless to ask the Doctor to stay. He owes money in Puddleby; and he says he must go back and pay it."
And the monkeys asked him, "What is money?"
Then Chee-Chee told them that in the Land of the White Men you could get nothing without money; you could do nothing without money
