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(4) 4-6 After Ape, a wealthy English gentleman, decides to have pets--hens in the living room, and rabbits and guinea pigs in the dining room--he is helped out by a Gypsy family. Although the story is told with King-Smith's typical humor, Ape is unrealistic. He is friendly and childlike, yet he ignored his own children, and he has no idea what will happen when he keeps male and female rabbits together.

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