The Monkey Who Tricked Himself
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The Monkey Who Tricked Himself

B1IntermediateMarch 21, 202613 min

The Monkey boasts that there is no animal in the Jungle that he can't trick. The Bear challenges him - he knows one animal the monkey can't trick. The monkey takes up the challenge. The prize is a whole hive of honey.

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Hello, this is Jana and welcome to StoryNuri. I'm back with a tricky monkey story.

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The Monkey Who Tricked Himself Hello, this is Jana and welcome to StoryNuri. I'm back with a tricky monkey story. When the animals in the jungle want to hear some gossip, they drop by the monkey's mango tree. More often than not, he is perched on a branch boasting about the tricks he has played.

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Like the time he told the crocodile, he must count his teeth every morning in case one had fallen out, or when he persuaded the parrots that silence would make them better talkers, all the day he convinced the tigress that she was invisible. His stories brighten a dull morning and make the animals laugh, and sometimes groan too,

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especially when the monkey begins to boast, which he is very fond of doing. One morning he called out, There isn't a single animal in the jungle that I can't trick. Now when the monkey made that bold claim, the bear happened to be listening, and the

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