monkey business

Ol Nate's Uncle Ted ran the city zoo and as it happened, their star attraction, a gorilla had passed away the week before a large group of Japanese tourist were scheduled to come visit the zoo next weekend. So uncle Ted called Nate and told him he’d pay $300.00 if would dress up in a Gorilla costume and pretend to be the Gorilla so the Japanese tourist would keep coming to the zoo.
Well Ol’ Nate had his doubts but three hundred dollars was three hundred dollars and hey! he needed the money so he puts on the suite and goes out into the cage. The people all start cheering and he plays the audience and they just eat it up. This isn’t so bad he thinks, so he starts jumping around, beating his chest, swinging from the tree limbs and grunting loudly.
During one acrobatic attempt. He falters and loses his balance and crashes through some safety netting landing square in the middle of the lion’s cage. As he lies there stunned, the lion roars. Ol’ Nate is terrified and starts screaming,” Help, Help, Help!”. The lion races over to him, places his paws on his chest and hisses, “Shut up or we’ll BOTH lose our jobs!”