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The Columbian Exchange Short Story

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Once, a cap seller was passing through a jungle. He was dead tired and needed to rest. Then, he stopped and spread a cloth under a tree. He placed his bag full of caps near him and lay down with his cap on his head The cap seller had a sound sleep for an hour. When he got up, the first thing he did was to look into his bag. He was started when he found all his caps were not there. He was wondering where they could have gone. Indeed, he was greatly puzzled. When he looked up the sky, he was very surprised to see monkeys sitting on the branches of a tree, each wearing a cap on his head. They had evidently done it to imitate him. He decided to get his caps back by making a humble request to the monkeys. In return, the monkeys only made faces of
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