Toto Chapter 2 (Moments)
Have you ever had a baby monkey as a pet? Toto
is a baby monkey. Let’s find out whether he is
mischievous or docile.
, GRANDFATHER bought Toto from a tonga-driver for the
sum of five rupees. The tonga-driver used to keep the little
red monkey tied to a feeding-trough, and the monkey
looked so out of place there that Grandfather decided he
would add the little fellow to his private zoo.
1. feeding-t
Toto was a pretty monkey. His bright eyes sparkled with a long, na
mischief beneath deep-set eyebrows, and his teeth, which container
were a pearly white, were very often displayed in a smile a lid that u
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that frightened the life out of elderly Anglo-lndian ladies. food for fa
But his hands looked dried-up as though they had been animal
pickled in the sun for many years. Yet his fingers were
2. Pickled –
quick and wicked; and his tail, while adding to his good preserved
looks (Grandfather believed a tail would add to anyone’s liquid, usu
good looks), also served as a third hand. He could use it to vinegar
hang from a branch; and it was capable of scooping up any
delicacy that might be out of reach of his hands.