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प्रश्न
How does Toto come to grandfather’s private zoo?
उत्तर
Grandfather bought Toto from a tonga-driver for five rupees. The tonga-driver kept the monkey tied to a feeding-trough. It looked so out of place there that grandfather decided he would add it to his private zoo.
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