Jupiter and the Monkey

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Jupiter and the Monkey
        JUPITER ISSUED a proclamation to all the beasts of the forest and
        promised a royal reward to the one whose offspring should be
        deemed the handsomest.  The Monkey came with the rest and
        presented, with all a mother's tenderness, a flat-nosed,
        hairless, ill-featured young Monkey as a candidate for the
        promised reward.  A general laugh saluted her on the presentation
        of her son.  She resolutely said, "I know not whether Jupiter
        will allot the prize to my son, but this I do know, that he is at
        least in the eyes of me his mother, the dearest, handsomest, and
        most beautiful of all."