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it at their meals. They also used it, on very rare occasions, 

 while eating in the open — wild strawberry leaves and the 

 tender bark of young birch twigs. 



Morning. Fruit as usual was the last course of their 

 breakfast. Apples were brought in and China uttered eagerly 

 the following phrases: 



g 



■ ^ 1 ^ 1 — ^ 



^r^q ;§ 



ngak, ngak, ngak ngak, ngjik, ngak 



^ 



^3 



^i- 



teS 



m m — , m m , m - 



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Shortly after, a group of children appeared at the screen. 

 Chim went over to see them but soon ran back to his swing- 

 ing rope, murmuring this variation of his fruit motive. 



^^ 



t=a 



k±. 



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He went on swinging with his head down, clutching the 

 rope with his feet and one hand, and holding what was left 

 of his apple in the other. The children were rather noisy 

 in their appreciation of his acrobatic performance, which 

 may have exdted him. He swung- too close to the floor and 

 got a hard bump on his head at which he uttered this pro- 

 longed tone: 



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