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Well, after the monkey learned that the Yellow Dog Tramp wanted to go to work to help Uncle Sam and Aunt Columbia, as I mentioned in the story before this, he said:
"You can whitewash the back fence if you want to. It may take you a week or it may take you a month, for I don't know how fast you can work."