The Adventures of Toto
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- Grandfather bought Toto from a tonga-driver for the sum of five rupees.
- The monkey looked so out of place there so Grandfather decided he would add the little fellow to his private zoo
- And his good looking tail which also served as a 3rd hand. It can be used to hang from a branch and scooping up any delicacy which might be out of reach from his hands
- Toto was a pretty monkey. His bright eyes sparkled with mischief beneath deep-set eyebrows, and his teeth, which were a pearly white
- His hands looked dried-up ;yet his fingers were quick and wicked.
- Grandmother always fussed when Grandfather bought home some new bird or animal. So Toto's presence was a secret to her until she was in a good mood.
- Grandfather and I put him away in a little closet opening into my bedroom wall, where he was tied securely to a peg fastened into the wall.
- “He’s clever, Given time, I’m sure he could have tied the torn pieces of your blazer into a rope, and made his escape from the window!”
- A few hours later, when Grandfather and I came back to release Toto. We found that the walls now stood out as naked brick and plaster. The peg in the wall had been wrenched from its socket, and my school blazer was in shreds.
- I wondered what Grandmother would say. But Grandfather didn’t worry; he seemed pleased with Toto’s performance.
- Toto was now transferred to a big cage in the servants’ quarters where a number of Grandfather’s pets lived very sociably together — a tortoise, a pair of rabbits, a tame squirrel and, for a while, my pet goat.
- The monkey wouldn’t allow any of his companions to sleep at night; so Grandfather, who had to leave Dehra Dun next day to collect his pension in Saharanpur, decided to take him along.
- A big black canvas kit-bag was provided for Toto with some straw at the bottom. When the bag was closed, there was no escape. the canvas was too strong for him to bite his way through.
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