Did you ever hear of a monkey having toothache? There was a monkey once
who lived in a cage in some gardens in London, and he had a very bad
toothache, which made a large swelling on his face. The poor creature
was in such great pain that a dentist was sent for. (A dentist, tell the
children, is a man who attends to teeth.) When the monkey was taken out
of the cage he struggled, but as soon as the dentist placed his hand on
the spot he was quite still. He laid his head down so that the dentist
might look at his bad tooth, and then he allowed him to take it out
without making any fuss whatever. There was a little girl once who
screamed and struggled dreadfully when she was taken to have her hair
cut, and that, you know, does not hurt at all. Let us learn from the
monkey, as we did from Robin, to
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Be Brave in Suffering.