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When Glumdalclitch went out one day, she left me in my bedroom box in her room.

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She thought I would be safe there, but it turned out to be a very dangerous place.

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As the day was warm, Glumdalclitch had left the big windows of her room and the door of my bedroom box open.

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Suddenly, I heard something come through the open window.

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Looking out from my box, I saw a monkey hopping around the room.

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It was as big as an elephant I had seen in Africa.

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The monkey belonged to one of the kitchen workers and had seen me before.

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I had not liked the way it had looked at me then.

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The monkey looked into my box.

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I was so frightened that I did not think to hide under the bed out of sight.

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The monkey chattered excitedly when it saw me.

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Then it put its paw through the doorway to try to catch me.

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I kept moving around, but the monkey was fast and grabbed me.

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"This is the end of me," I said to myself.

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"I will soon be a meal for this monkey."

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To my surprise, the monkey was gentle.

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It held me closely against its chest.

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"Perhaps it thinks that I'm its baby," I thought.

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When I struggled to get free, the monkey held me more tightly, so I kept still.

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With its other paw, the monkey stroked my face lovingly.

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At that moment, Glumdalclitch opened the door of the room.

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The noise of her key in the lock frightened the monkey.

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Still holding me, it jumped onto the windowsill.

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Then it climbed out of the window.

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Glumdalclitch ran to the open window and started to scream.

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"Help! Help!" she cried.

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"The monkey has stolen Grildig and is going to hurt him!"

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A minute later the whole palace was in an uproar.

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Everybody was shouting at once.

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The monkey had climbed up onto the roof, at least three hundred meters above the ground.

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I saw many people gathered in the garden below and pointing up at the roof.

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I was so high that I almost fainted in fear.

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"The monkey is killing Grildig!" someone shouted.

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"Grildig is going to fall off the roof!" cried another.

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Glumdalclitch was sobbing and had her hands over her eyes.

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She did not want to see my horrible death.

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By this time, some servants had brought ladders and had climbed onto the roof.

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The monkey held me calmly in one paw and took something out of its mouth with the other.

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It was some food, and the monkey tried to put it into my mouth.

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It really did think I was its baby!

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"Yuck!" I said. "Get that away from me.

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I don't want your chewed food."

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Below, people started to laugh, but I was terrified of falling off the roof.

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"Save me!" I cried.

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"We're trying to," called out one of the servants.

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"But we don't want to scare the monkey.

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If we do, he might drop you."

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As the servants came nearer, the monkey finally put me down and ran away across the rooftop.

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The servants carried me down to safety.

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Glumdalclitch, still sobbing, put me to bed.

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The next day, the king asked me about my adventure.

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Then he said, "What would you do if an animal tried to grab you again?"

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"It had better not," I answered in a strong voice.

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"I'm not afraid.

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Next time I will attack it with my sword!"

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With a laugh, the king replied,

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"Ah, I see that you are very brave when you are safe here with me."