Once there was a tribe of monkeys, and every day they would go to a mango tree to eat mangoes. As they ate one day, they knocked some mangoes into the river below. The mangoes floated down the river, and got stuck in a fisherman's net. The king of the land saw the fruit in the net, and wondered what it was because he had never seen mangoes before. The fisherman told the king that it was a type of fruit, and cut it up for the king. The king liked the mangoes, and asked the fisherman where they came from. The fisherman told the king about the mango tree, and the king and some of his men went up the river to the tree. They spent all day picking mangoes, and when night came, they slept under the mango trees. The monkey troop came to the mango tree that night, and they made so much noise that they woke the king and his men. The king told his men to get their bows, and when the monkeys tried to leave the tree or when the morning came to shoot them and have mango and monkey for breakfast. The monkey leader saw the trouble that they were in, and he hung himself across the river to another tree, and his troop crossed over his back to safety. When the king saw the leader's bravery, he let them go, and never harassed monkeys again.
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