The monkey who tricked himself.

Hello, this is Jana and welcome to Story Nuri.

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 poached on a branch boasting about the tricks he has played.

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, or the day he convinced the Tigris that she was invisible.

His stories brighten a dull morning and make the animals laugh, and sometimes groanan too, 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, the oi-corn trick. Now when the monkey made that bold claim, the bear happened to be listening and the bear called out.

That's not true, monkey. I know of one animal you will never be able to trick.

No, you don't bear, cried the monkey.

I've tricked you a million times.

Well, I didn't say it was me, said the bear calmly.

But I do know one animal, you will never trick.

And I'll bet you a whole beehive of honey that you can't. Now the monkey liked sweet,

delicious honey, but he rarely tasted it because the bees guard their hives very closely.

And besides, they have very sharp stings.

You're on, declared the monkey.

I bet you a whole heap of bananas that I can trick any animal in the jungle.

I don't like bananas, grumbled the bear.

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