THE THIRD BOOK OF APES, CALLED
NAMES

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CHAPTER 1
1 aShortly after the clever apes had killed all the other kinds of apes, they grew restless and irritable,
2 bBecause the killing of the other apes had been enjoyable,
3 cAnd now there were no other kinds of apes to kill,
4 Or be killed by,
5 dWhich took much of the fun out of life.

CHAPTER 2
1 And so it happened that the eclever apes began to split apart into smaller bands,
2 fWhich moved away from one another, sometimes as far as the next gvalley,
3 hBut always close enough so that they could attack one another with pointed sticks.
4 But it also happened that the new bands of apes became iconfused,
5 jBecause it was not so easy as before to tell one kind of ape from another kind of ape,
6 kAll apes now being of one kind, the clever kind.

CHAPTER 3
1 But being clever, some of the apes conceived a lgreat idea, and gave each other names, so that one could recognize another by his name,
2 mAnd thus know to refrain from transfixing the wrong apes with a pointed stick.
a.Apes.4.7
b.Adam.6.7
c.Psay.5Q.24
d.Psay.5Q.23
e.Chuk.15.7-8
f.Chuk.15.9-16
g.Chuk.6.1-13
h.Psay.5Q.56
i.Chr.10.5-6
j.Psom.27.1
Psom.22.4
k.Apes.2.6
Psom.75.10
l.Psay.5Q.32
m.Krt.9.15
n.Psay.5Q.60
o.Lies.2.8-9
p.Grk.4.11
Jefs.7.15
Adam.2.12-16
q.Bks.6.24-27
r.Hall.6.9
s.Wil.17.1
t.Psp.2.1-2
u.Name.4.10
v.Jefs.7.15
w.Apes.2.2-5
Psay.5A.19
x.Ann.18.11
y.Brit.2.8
z.Wil.19.4
3 nAnd so these apes named themselves with seven times seven hundreds of names,
4 oAnd there were apes named pAdam and Eve,
5 qAnd Abel and Cain, and Sara and Hagar, and Isaac and Ishmael,
6 rAnd David and Goliath, and Samson and Delilah, and Moses and Herod, and Abraham and Joshua,
7 sAnd Ruth, and Job, and Seth, and Jacob and Esau, and Joseph, and Rachel, and Leah,
8 tAnd Samuel, and Daniel, and Hosea, and Amos, and Andy, and Isaiah, and Ezekiel, and uEmmanuel, and many more besides.

CHAPTER 4
1 When they had done naming one another, the apes were very pleased,
2 And proud of what they had done,
3 Believing it to be pretty special to have so many names,
4 vAnd such an easy way of telling one ape from another ape,
5 wWhich had never happened before in the living memory of the apes.
6 And so it happened that the apes with the names decided that they were no longer apes,
7 xBut better than apes,
8 yAnd worthy of a name unto themselves,
9 Which they selected by zlottery, asking every ape to draw one sharpened stick from a huge pile of sharpened sticks,