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his tools at the end of his swing shift and heard the dilemma. He walked across the beach to where Mandrill and Hermit were sitting and said, "I'll give you a chance to build something. Here's an extra cordless drill, a "case" of nuts and bolts, and a monkey wrench for you to use."
    "Thanks, Uncle!" Mandrill said as his eyes lit up. "I'm going to build a set of monkey bars for us to play on."
    "And I'm going to gather the driftwood that's lying on the beach for the set of monkey bars," added Hermit.
    The next day at dawn, Mandrill and Hermit were up and at it, as they put on their kid tool belts and got busy building the set of monkey bars. Mandrill was drilling the wood, and Hermit was lifting the wood up. To make it strong, Hermit began inserting bolts in the wood, and Mandrill followed by tight­ening the nuts with his monkey wrench until the set of monkey bars were completed.
    At the end of the day, Mandrill and Hermit were swinging and hanging on the set of monkey bars when Hermit blurted out, "We should invite all the jungle kids over to play with us."
    "That's a great idea!" said Mandrill. "I'll get Mac the macaw to caw out a play invitation."
    A few hours later, Mac flew back and reported, "No one will be coming, because tomorrow they all are going to the grand opening of the new play­ground jungle gym."
    During the night, the macaw warning system went off and cawed for everyone to seek shelter, as a typhoon was descending on the jungle island.
    The waves were roaring, the coconuts were dropping, and the winds were swaying the trees back and forth so hard that the ribbons snapped on the playground jungle gym and catapulted it through the air and out into the ocean.
    After the typhoon had subsided, all the jungle kids went to the playground site, only to see that the jungle gym had disappeared. They all sighed in disbelief.
    "Now we don't have anything to play on!" said the disappointed kids to Miss June.
    Mac the macaw, who was flying overhead, cawed out, "Go check out Mandrill's set of monkey bars on the beach."
    All the jungle kids scurried over to the beach and saw Mandrill and Hermit swinging and hanging on the set of monkey bars, having the time of their lives.
    "Why is your playground the only one standing on the jungle island?" asked Gibby the gibbon, the ribbon tying one.
    "It was a good "case" of monkey see, monkey do," stated the master craftsman Mandrill the monkey.

The Shears and Roebuck

    Roebuck the buck never had a haircut in his entire life. Then everyone got a text message from school, reminding them that their school yearbook photos would be taken tomorrow.
    All the kids started scrambling to come up with a cool look for school by searching sales, clip­ping coupons, and bustling around the department store---all except Roebuck the buck, because his schoolmates considered his hairstyle of long, straight blond locks to be the coolest look in school.
    "It's time to just get a simple haircut, and you'll look nice for your school yearbook photo," suggested Roebuck's mom.
    "Haircuts never look good because you always get butchered," replied Roebuck.
    Roebuck thought long and hard about what he could do with his hair without having to get a haircut. He decided to text some of his doe friends for their advice.
    "You need a cool look that makes a statement for the school yearbook," the does replied.
    "I've got to come up with a plan," said Roebuck. "I know! I'll just go to the department store and buy some hair-styling products."
    After hours of gelling, waxing, and spraying his hair, Roebuck took a photo of his new look and posted it on his social page, so the does could let him know if it was a cool look for school.
    "What do you think of the new look?" Roebuck asked on his social page.
    "Yikes!" replied the does. "The spike is so fad­like, and now you look like Dwib the guib!"
    "Well, that didn't turn out well, so I'll go to plan B," said Roebuck. "I'll go back to the depart­ment store and buy a