There was a rare monkey in Madagascar and the local natives were having trouble catching this monkey. Apparently, monkey brains are a delicate meal there. Anyway, the natives came up with a plan to catch this monkey.
They knew he liked peanuts. So they got a coconut gourd, carved a hole big enough for the monkey to put his paw inside, cleaned all the junk out of the gourd and put the peanuts inside. Then they tied the gourd to the ground where the monkey would see it and hid in the bushes with their knives and machetes.
Sure enough, the monkey spied the gourd, sniffed out the peanuts and thought with his little monkey brain, I'm getting me some of them peanuts. So he reached into the gourd and grabbed a handful of those yummy peanuts.
Now the hunters attacked. The monkey saw them coming with their spears and machetes and he tried to escape. But now his paw was clenched like a fist around those peanuts and he couldn't get it out. He knew the hunters would catch him and kill him, but he didn't want to give up those peanuts.
I don't know what happened to that monkey. I knew I better go to a meeting because I was holding on to some peanuts of my own and I knew if I didn't let go of them, I was going to die too.
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