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Down on the ground, under the family tree, were some empty cocoanut shells.
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An empty cocoanut shell!
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The little monkey, still keeping tight hold of the empty cocoanut shell, looked at the crouching tiger as bravely as he could.
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Or, if he does not, well, maybe something else will happen, and Mappo looked at the empty cocoanut shell in his paw.
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By this time the tiger had seen the empty cocoanut shell fall to the ground, and the striped creature knew what had happened.
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Bumpo did not know what his brother was going to do, or that Mappo intended to play a trick with the empty cocoanut shell.
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That was a good trick of yours-tothrow the empty cocoanut shell at the tiger, Mappo, said an old grandfather monkey, high in a tree.
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Pae was still filling the emptied cocoanut-shells, and the swollen green man postured before me like some horrid figment of a dream.
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"I- Ihityou on the head with an empty cocoanut shell and ran away," said Mappo.
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"Oh, he tried to get me once," Mappo answered, "and I threw an empty cocoanut shell in his face!"
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"Oh, maybe it's the same tiger that tried to catch me, and whom I hit on the head with the empty cocoanut," thought Mappo.